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But that way you have to know what the MAC address of your printer is to work out which one it is, or click on all the MAC addresses if your DHCP server software does a lookup...
Well, okay. I mean, I have a little list with all the MAC addresses of all my devices, and they're named anyway, so I'd just have to look at the one without the LoTR theme, but I realize everyone is not me.
Printing a network setup page should only be a few clicks deep.
And yes. Fine, this is probably simpler. Heh.
But yes, since it is also possible to share a printer that's hooked up to a computer that's on your network, but that's not the way you will prefer to do it in the future, when you're troubleshooting, hook it up only to the the ethernet.
Safari and firefox.
And it doesn't work in either of those?
I have a little list with all the MAC addresses of all my devices, and they're named anyway, so I'd just have to look at the one without the LoTR theme, but I realize everyone is not me
All devices don't report their names, though, so it can take some research. If the device knows its IP address, I usually just ask it directly.
Metaphorically speaking.
Sometimes zooming out on/shrinking the screen will make a button visible and selectable even though you could not scroll to it before.
My printer at home is dead, time to replace it. What brands do people like for wireless all-in-ones (w/ flatbed scanner) that play well with Macs?
Argh. Trying to get the SA Art Collection in order. There is something collection related on a bunch of 3.5" floppies. We actually have in our office computers with floppy drives. (Not my computer but some of the student computers.) But they are XP and these disks are old enough to be an older version of windows - is there any way that I can get at the information on those disks?
I've been happy with HP printers on my Macs. I have two of the high end OfficeJets that are about 5 years old. Mac drivers have been good.
My printer at home is dead, time to replace it. What brands do people like for wireless all-in-ones (w/ flatbed scanner) that play well with Macs?
I have a Brother multi-function, and have been real happy with it. Scanning is real easy. The scanner can launch the software. Actually, it just opens Preview on the computer. Haven't had an issue with the printer. And it has document feeder. I think it was about $180. I forget model, it's at work, and this week I am in convention.
My sister's been having a lot of trouble with her Kindle Fire. Books that she buys on Amazon and downloads, and starts reading, are suddenly not available and have to be downloaded again.
Anyone know what this is about? I told her to turn off the Wifi when she's not using it, and maybe that will stop Amazon from doing that, but I don't see why it's doing it in the first place.
I haven't had this trouble (mine is that the software on the Fire recognizes if I have an Amazon ebook I've stripped the DRM from, and requires me to delete it from the Fire and re-download the DRM'd version from Amazon).
I've pretty much had it with GIMP on OS X. It's the text tool that's driving me around the bend. It's so incredibly inflexible. Is italics really too much to ask, for it to be readily obvious for me to be able to keep all the text one string and just italicise one word?
Somehow I can never manage to add text in GIMP and not look like a complete rookie.
So I'm looking for alternatives. I also have ArtRage Studio, but that's heavily skewed towards drawing, and the text tool doesn't even have a font preview.
Any suggestions for anything cheap with decent text tools?
(I know I can add text in Preview, but I can't do much else, so it would be complicated to work in two programs for anything vaguely sophisticated)
As someone who really does not know what they are doing in desktop publishing I find that PagePlus works well for me. It does everything I need, but I don't promise it will do everything you need.At least somewhat intutitive. If you download the free (highy limited version) you should get an offer to upgrade to the paid for 20 bucks pretty quickly which is what I did.
