My wallet hasn't synchronized, can I make a transfer? My wallet hasn't synchronized, can I make a transfer?

I'm assuming that the transaction will not come up on my wallet but im guessing it would come up on the person I send too?
Yes, making a transfer works pretty fine with the Bitcoin-Qt wallet.
However, the transfer won't be submitted to the network until your local client is up to date. Up to this point, the transaction is shown in your local wallet but not in the global network.

As an alternative you could use another wallet, for instance Electrum (http://electrum.org):
Electrum is a wallet that connects to servers that are already synchronized and thus will give you immediate results as well.