I know very little about Macs, apart from their one-button mouse quirk, and am sure that amongst the multitude of computer geeks I know there is someone who has more clue than me on this.

We have an MacBook (appears to be this model) which I am in the process of copying needed data off in PC friendly formats. The problem is that after I have done ( Read more... )

I'm on twitter as it's something I can glance at when I have a moment and see that there are actually REAL PEOPLE that aren't my kids or husband existing in the world. My problem is finding a client that does what I want ( Read more... )

So, I have a spreadsheet problem. In more ways than one actually in that I can't help creating/fiddling with them when there's some numbers to be crunched as well as there being an actual file problem ( Read more... )

Spotted by a friend in a Finnish newspaper.

"If you keep losing your wireless mouse, tie a string around it and tie the other end to your laptop."

I'm just... speechless.

3D Mailbox

The bastard love child of Hotmail and Second Life.

For some reason some of my emails are coming through with the subject line from one and the text from another, which I strongly suspect to be a problem with Thunderbird. So if you've sent me a mail/comment recently that you think I should have replied to and haven't, can you try again as it's probably ended up in the spambucket.

Ta

I would like to put some AVI files I have on my PC onto a VHS tape to sent to a relative. (No, they don't have a DVD player, it would be too dangerous. We once received a phone call asking us what buttons to press on the video to get it to record ( Read more... )

I am a free wossname!

Well, songster has accused me of being a geek. Just because I (being a self-confessed linux newbie) have managed to get the hang of the command line enough to download, un-tar and get seti@home and wine running smoothly without any help ( Read more... )