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You can in fact just do the install and snow leopard will automatically preserve your home folder, will all your files (and applications) and all your settings (so called archive and install, because it archives your stuff first, this is the default behaviour for snow leopard installs). Even so...

One of the features I've seen that will come to iOS4 (and iPhones) is bluetooth keyboard support like on the iPad. This would be great for sending SMS's while I'm at my computer, but it would be a pain to have a separate dedicated keyboard just for this. So, are there any smart devs who could...

I find exposé (the thing that shows all the open windows) a much better way to manage open windows of applications. Can I suggest you try hot corners as a way to activate exposé instead? Go to your system preferences and select Exposé and Spaces, go to the Exposé tab. There you can set a...

I am pretty sure that actually you are shocking the mac mini! For some reason you are charging up with static electricity and so you will discharge yourself and feel a shock when you touch something which is grounded. Since you are in a wheelchair with rubber tyres it is not possible for you...

Open the PDF in Preview and press command+A (this selects all text in the PDF). Then press command+C to copy the text to the clipboard, finally go to a blank word document and paste it (command+V). You may need to do some minor corrections (remove some extra spaces etc if the PDF you had was...

just a tip, but you don't really have to minimise your messenger. The only time I use the minimise function is when I have many documents open in a single apps (say a bunch of PDFs open in preview) and want to move some away to read later. There is nothing wrong with leaving your messenger...

yeah I know I will no longer be able to use installer.app, but there will be the app store. I stayed on 1.1.2 because as I remember it wasn't clear cut how I could upgrade to 1.1.4 and stay jailbroken without a lot of fuss, I haven't had time to research it in detail, hence my original...

I've not come across this question but I would imagine it must be common...When the new v2.0 software for the iPhone comes out (next week?), will people with jailbroken phones have issues updating? I have not unlocked my iPhone and have been using my O2 contract SIM that came with the iPhone, I...

lol, i spent ages emailled people from a blog thread to try and get an invite to dropbox and never thought of the OCUK forums. Does anyone have an invite? I would be eternally grateful :) jjlawton {letter a with curly tail} gmail {do i really need to say dot com? :)} thanks

you might be running in mirror mode, press and hold the key that looks like two interlocking rectangles (it's something like F4).

there is a way around this, instead of moving the directory, move the files. So open the first file in the finder and press command+a (select all) and then click and drag that selection and drop it on the second folder icon, this will only replace the files you are copying as you would expect...

I also find the hype annoying but what I find a lot more annoying is the stance that some people take towards people who buy the iPhone by insinuating they are "stupid". It's totally uncalled for.

Fox, do you know where you can get the N95 8Gb free on a £35 p/m tariff?

A free application I like is called UNO, which just applies a nice unified theme to the whole of OS X (removes the brushed metal interface as well as a few aqua nuances). A good theme shouldn't distract you by being either too ugly or to nice to look at IMO. I think we can all agree that...

Check out MacPAR deLuxe and unRarX, both free. There are definatly some progs to convert videos for psp (and ipod etc) and newsgroup software with nzb support (some might not be free though) and iso extractors, do a google (stick osx in with the search query and you'll get mostly mac based...

Al Vallario is correct about the second part...you need to install X11 from your Tiger DVD the way he said. It won't work if you download it from apple, I have no idea why but you just have to do it this way! @bigmac, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_Window_System

I find the trackpad on my powerbook 12" to be the best I've used on any laptop, mainly because of the smooth metal finish I can glide quickly across the pad and get a good response. However, on all standard macs, the mouse tracking speed is way to slow, even if you go into the preferences and...

the application image well is idiot proof and will resize nice and quick, its free too...

It's not meant to be pointless, it's for people with impaired vision (inverting colours can help sometimes with reading etc). If you have the latest software update (10.4.8) then hold down ctrl and move your scroll wheel on your mouse (or ball if you have a might mouse, or 2-finger scroll on...

It's not a mistake, there won't be student discounts on the ipods anymore (a few people have contacted apple to confirm this and it's been reported on a few blogs etc). I think the reason is that they also did a price drop. In particular, the price drop on the main ipods actually works out...