As a recent convert to Macs and OSX, I was pleased when my trusty old HP 1320 laser printer ‘worked’ straight away when plugged into my Macbook Pro. However my joy was short lived when I couldn’t figure out how to enable duplex printing – you can’t set it from preferences or the printer driver. [...]
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The Simplest Fix for ‘iTunes cannot read the contents of the iPod’
Over the last two hours I’ve been trying to get my 5th Gen iPod Nano to sync with Apple iTunes on my 2009 model MacBook Pro, but all I got was the dreaded error message ‘iTunes cannot read the contents of the iPod’. iTunes tells me to restore, but as the iPod won’t appears under [...]
iPhone 3G – Wifi and LEAP authentication tip
Well I jumped on the bandwagon and replaced my aging Motorola Razr mobile phone with an Apple iPhone 3G. One of the first things I tried to do was connect it to the wireless network at work which took me a while to do. Here is the tip that may save you some time: The [...]
Vista and slow torrent downloads using uTorrent – a solution!
I ‘upgraded’ to Vista a few weeks ago and unhappily discovered that utorrent ran like an absolute dog. I would try to download the same torrent on two identically configured utorrent clients on the same connnection – one running on my Vista desktop and one running on my XP laptop. What I would see on [...]
Secret volume control in Quicktime
If you have ever watched media on media players such as Quicktime or Windows Media Player, you will probably have come across the situation where the volume is too low (even with the volume slider at max). Sure, you can adjust the volume controls in your OS or on the speakers, but sometimes this is [...]