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Weird request: Anyway to have my mouse click every 5-10 seconds on the same spot on the screen. Im not talking about the mouse literally clicking but for the OS to think the mouse is being clicked every 5-10 seconds. Thankyou EDIT: Found an app called Extra Suites. Its has a mouse click...

Since turning my Mac on this morning it will work for about ten minutes before crashing. Applications open look as if they are working but arent. EG in adium i can type messages, although they will just timeout and not send. I left the system alone for ten minutes and it came back to life...

Since updating to 7.6.1 iTunes will not close unless you tell it to twice. If you press Quit once, iTunes will do nothing. If you highlight it or click it in the dock it will then close (although it seems to crash). If i choose Quit, then Quit again it closes instantly. Before the update...

I need to do a risk assessment on my house for part of my University project. Im trying to make a property plan of the upstairs and downstairs of my house. I was using Word to do it as i could easily draw straight lines and set the length of each. However i cannot make some of the lines touch...

Trying to enter some commands found on http://www.macworld.com/article/132447/2008/03/leopardsurvival2.html into Terminal but to no avail. I open terminal but after typing the commands correctly nothing happens, its like im writing in Textedit. On opening of terminal there is not text present...

Im copying a file from a CD to my desktop, due to the cd being heavily scratched the file has failed during copy (message popup) but the window with the copying status is still there. Its been onscreen the whole night saying 5 seconds left. Im unable to eject the CD. I looked in Activity...

I am trying to partition my 500GB external HDD into two partitions. One for my files, one for time machine. When i try to make the Time Machine partition it gets 1/3 of the way through before reporting back that there is not enough space left. The exhdd has ~300GB of free space, im trying to...

Found a bug which id like to report to apple. It occurs when i have an appplication running and highlighted then run apple software update form the apple menu. If i got into expose as soon as i click run software update when the update finishes looking for new software (it finds none as im...

Ive had this problem for some time now. Ive tryed all solutions available on the internet but none seem to apply to Windows Home Edition. I can connect to my Mac with both Home and Professional windows machines and play songs from my macs iTunes library. I CANNOT connect to the windows...

When i import a photo into iPhoto its copied and saved into the iPhoto directory. However when i browse this directory albums are split up into folders named 'Roll 47'...48...49...etc... making it hard to browse photos using the finder. Is it possible to have iPhoto store the pictures in a...

Is it possible to copy the directory to where i have installed Ghost Recon (or any software) on my iMac onto another mac so that the other mac can play/run it?

Basically is there a way to get a file to open on opening a certain application? EG. When i open Safari, an mp3 file on my desktop is played (not in safari) Ive looked at Automator but that wont work for me. Thanks

Quick query... Was wondering if there is a simple Mac application with the same features of Microsoft's Paint for windows. I just want a lightweight app capable of allowing me to draw simple pictures and do very simple editing (eg black out an area of a picture). Any recommendations? Many...

Say theres a song (.mp3) on a site that i want... If i know the URL to the mp3 file how can i download it? If i put the URL into safari it opens a page with the quicktime media player and plays the song. Thanks Sorry ive solved my own problem again. Incase anyone wanted to know using VLC ...

I can view radio stations in frontrow by putting them into a playlist. However when i got to play them using frontrow i hear about half a second of the stream before it freezes and im shown the now playing screen but the stream is stuck on 0seconds. When i then quit frontrow i have an error...

Im having problems with video sharing through iTunes I can share music wirelessly through my house to my windows laptop and see the laptops library. However i have shared movies on my mac but the windows laptop cannot see them. The thing is i created reference videos using quicktime to...

I want to play poker on hxxp://www.partypoker.com/anywhere/ I click on 'play now' but it never connects, im stuck on 'retrying the connection' all the time. Whats really annoying is how it works on Windows IE. I believe this is due to a java problem with Safari as many java applets wont work on...

Im looking for some speakers for my iMac but my knowledge is very limited and have no idea which to get. Im looking for a set of speakers up to about the £80 mark. Surround sound or 2.1 is fine. What im looking for is a quality set of speakers but with a decent sub for playing my war games...

I want to make an external out of my old MP3 player. Ive taken the harddrive out of it but unsure which enclosure to use with it. The writing on the harddrive says; 5V, 1.0A, 20GB, DC Supply, ATA/IDE 4200RPM. Its small too i think its a 1.8". Also its got 47 pins. I dont know what type of...

I was wondering what was best for my 17" iMac. Overnight i do not use it, its turned on throughout the daytime. I was wondering whether the hardware would last longer if if i shutdown the mac overnight or put it to sleep instead. What are the benefits of both? Thanks!