bless you, Gris! that worked like a charm!

Yay!

Yeah, when the iBook G4 was around, one of the features that the Powerbook G4 had that distinguished it from the iBook was two-finger scrolling, but it was readily apparent that Apple was disabling it at the software level. They were trying REALLY hard to convince people to buy the underpowered Powerbook G4s toward the end of their life cycle (after they realized G5s would never work on laptops, but before the Intel switch) and it led to some rather annoying artificial limiting of the iBooks.

i'm guessing i'll get the two-fingered scrolling down, but right now it's SUPERFASTOMG!

i'm not even sure how old this iBook is. i'm guessing 5 years or so.

It's time for me to find another used Powerbook or Macbook or two. My Aunt Katherine wants one instead of the iMac I was getting for her. Also? Andi's Powerbook is getting old and I'd like to make it our spare, so something for her is in the near future.

$igh, $$$

Just exported my feeds from Bloglines and imported them into Google Reader. Still don't like Google Reader. *sigh*

I can't use Google Reader. As I said causes my computer to crash, and probably my computer's fault not Google Reader's. So Alternative readers? (Non-web based clients are fine.)

TB, have you tried Google reader's mobile version? I use that (I have a LOT of feeds) when I want something less resource intensive).

Other than that, I don't really have a suggestion. I have heard about Gruml (mac).

NetNewsWire on a Mac is good. The ads are unobtrusive and the interface is smooth.

I don't know anything about windows readers.

ETA: If I were on Windows, this would be my first try: [link]

So I have this weird problem with printing in MS Access... or maybe it's a problem with the print spooler. I don't know.

We have this Access form that shows a bunch of invoices. One option on this form is the ability to print four copies of each invoice on the form. So, using VBA DAO, I made a function that loops through the invoices - for each invoice, a function is called that loops four times to print the four copies of each invoice.

So if there are ten invoices, the outer loop runs ten times, and for each invoice the inner loop runs 4 times, for a total of 40 separate print jobs that get sent to the print spooler, all in, say, less than a second.

The problem is when I run it here, it works fine, but when our client runs it, the invoices sometimes print out of order. So it seems to me that the Access program must be sending stuff to the print spooler in the correct order but then somehow stuff prints out of order.

Any ideas?

eta: This is one of those annoying intermittent problems. I suppose I could put in a delay for each step in the outer loop... but that seems kludgey to me, and who knows it it'd work all the time.

eta²: Ooh - there are printing settings that can affect the order that the spooler prints stuff.

Go into properties on the printer, to the Advanced tab. You may need to play around with the Spool settings to get things to come out in the proper order. If it's set to start printing after last page is received, the smaller docs are going to print first because they'll finish spooling first.

does anyone have any recs for video editing software for the Mac? reasonable price would be swell as well because for right now, it will just be a hobby and i can't see paying exorbitant amounts of money for something i'm not sure i'll love.