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?

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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.

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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.

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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).

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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)

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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.

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Er I guess the photoshop equivalent is photoplus. The Pageplus is more the equivalent of scribus.

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No thoughts on the Fire? I've searched the MobileRead forums, but nobody else seems to be having this problem. It's as if the thing syncs but reverts to the book being on the cloud rather than on the device...

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Wow, that was a way unspecific request, wasn't it?

I'm looking for a Photoshop replacement not in the photo-editing sense, but in the drawing/painting sense. Artrage is a straight up media replacement, so it barely makes any allowances ofr the sort of hybrid thing PS has going on.

So, something with text editing (and it would be *marvellous* if there were text effects, but not required) but also brushes.

I'll have a look at Photoplus and see what its range is.

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I feel like I have a Mac program I like pretty well, but I've forgotten the name. I will look when I get back to my home computer.

I assume Seashore doesn't work any better than Gimp, since it's the same engine?

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