It took me a while to get my canon scanner working under leopard. The trick is that there are two programs that you need to install - the scanner program and the driver. Continue Reading…
How to import songs into itunes is easy. You just put the CD in, select it in itunes, and click on advanced - convert selection to MP3.
That’s it - Easy!
But, the default setting on itunes is not the best setting to use when importing songs. In fact, there is a better way to import songs that uses a program called LAME. This article describes how to import songs into itunes using the better quality of the LAME encoder.
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This hint is not strictly Macintosh, but it’s so good I have to write it up. Did you know you can get what they call a Continuous inking system (CIS) for most big name inkjet printers? It continually feeds the ink into the printer so you don’t have to change the cartridges! You can see the big containers of ink in the photo above - they sit next to the printer.
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If you’ve got an Aluminium Powerbook, they are a great machine, my personal favourite laptop, but after a few years the hinge can get a little loose. Thankfully this is not like the old Titanium powerbooks where the hinge was broken, it is just a matter of a few screws that need to be tightened! Here’s how to do it.
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This nifty application gives you a little option in your print menu called ‘Make a Booklet’.
When you want to send someone a lot of files in an email, the best way to do it is to compress it into one smaller file first, called an archive or a zip file. When the person receives the zip file they just need to double click it and, hey presto, the exact files that you put into it appear on their desktop! Read on to find out how to do it.
SUMMARY: iweb normally publishes your website to your .mac account. But it also has an option in the fiel menu called ‘publish to folder’ which means it saves the entire website onto your computer in your user directory in a folder called ’sites’. So then you just have to manually upload your site from the sites folder to the web and others can see it. That information may be all you were after, but if you need step by step instructions on how to do that, read on!
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1. Go to youtube and start watching the video in your SAFARI browser.
2. Open the “Activity” window (via the Window menu or by pressing option-Command-A).
3. One of the items in the list will be much larger than the rest, and growing as you watch. This is the video file. Double click on this item and Safari will automatically download it for you to your desktop, it will be called get_video.
4. Click ONCE on the get_video file to select it, press enter (not return, enter is the shortcut to rename a file), and add .flv to the end of the filename.
5. You now have it saved on your desktop.
6. Go to http://perian.org, download and install perian 1.0 and you will be able to watch the flv flash files in quicktime player.
