With OS10.4, the only problem I had with printing with my networked (via AirportExtreme) Brother 2070N was when my G4PB would have a 10.x address instead of a 192.x address. Not so with Leopard and the new MBP. I finally got tired of walking to the office for a USB print, and Google helped me find this helpful post on LiveJournal. (tip)
The problem is that Brother printers aren’t talking “Bonjour” under Leopard — dunno if it’s Apple’s fault or Brother’s. Read the rest of this entry »
The victim of theft in White Plains NY was an Apple owner and employee. When a friend noticed that Kait’s (stolen) computer had shown up online (which shows how clueless the burglar was)… Kait activated a service called “Back to My Mac,” part of Apple’s dot-Mac service (annual fee, $99). She logged in to the stolen machine and snapped a photo of the thief, who turned out to be a friend-of-a-friend. Both the software used, PhotoBooth, and the built-in camera are standard on newer Apple laptops running OS10.5, Leopard. (tip) Disclaimer: I own multiple Macs and Apple stock.
I stumbled upon (not with the software) this CV (I would not have my cellphone number public like this) and thus was introduced to Visual CV (warning: big annoying Flash promo). From their about pages:
The VisualCV makes a traditional resume come alive with video, pictures and a portfolio of your best work samples and other supporting documents. Informational pop-ups provide background data on the companies you’ve worked at and the colleges you’ve attended. You can securely share different versions with your own network of employers, colleagues and friends, and control who sees what.
You can create a similar resume/portfolio with WordPress, but you need CSS fluency (your own or someone else’s) to tweak WordPress templates. The permissions part, that’s harder with WordPress — either the portfolio (or certain pages) is public or it isn’t.
I’m surprised a site like LinkedIn hasn’t already offered the eye candy that’s in this site (multi-media, work samples, etc.).
The NYT’s headline writer asks this question to promo a short article in Sunday’s business section … as though this were something novel. Or hard to do. It’s neither and is common in Japan. In 2006 about 6-in-10 mobile customers in Japan used mobile coupons more than once a month. Read the rest of this entry »
From the looks of this video (shared Tuesday at the NAA/ASNE conference) Kodak is making the same sort of transformation that IBM has done at least twice. (tip) Watch and share (sit tight the first 15 seconds… it’s not what it first appears to be!)
What’s remarkable in this age of corporate plundering (by senior management) is that the current leadership seems to be pro-active (that’s the McClatchy editorial spin): Read the rest of this entry »
Adobe has decided to tackle services like Splashup and Flickr/Picnik head-on and also take a side-swipe at Picasa. The new “product” is an online photo editor and storage site called Adobe Photoshop Express. I don’t know if the site is hosed or Mac-unfriendly, but neither the test-drive nor sign-up applications currently work with Mac Firefox 2.0.0.13. By “not work” I mean that I get a terminal plain gray page with a “Transferring data from fpdownload.macromedia.com….” message that never finishes … or goes away.
Adobe’s service offers sets a new bar for free hosting: 2 GB. Google allows 1 GB on PicasaWeb (and Picasa is an offline editor). Flickr’s free service allows members to add only 100 MB a month …but until December, there was no photo editing going on at Flickr. That’s when Flickr integrated Picnik tools into the Flickr interface.
I prefer editing photos on my computer, where response time is more immediate and network connection not critical. That said, for a quick edit from a computer that has no image editing software, Picnik is sweet! And it allows you to save images to your hard drive or to your Facebook, Flickr, Picasa or MySpace account. All without setting up an account. =:-0
Adobe is the 600-pound gorilla (well, so is Google) in this game. And some day, we’ll be connected to the Net like we’re breathing air today, or so the science fiction writers envision. Until then, watch, play and wait.
TiVo owners (we’re now in that circle, since our ReplayTV died) listen up: you will soon be able to watch YouTube content on your TV, via your TiVo. Oh, boy - cute cat parade!
AppleTV incorporated YouTube content in January, but Mac and iPod owners are still S.O.L. when it comes to Amazon’s UnBox (although TiVo folks can watch UnBox rentals). This is what happens in a world without standards, folks: corporations fight over a small pie, rather than competing on merit for parts of a much larger pie. C’est la vie, unfortunately. It merely postpones the inevitable, as the typewriter, railroad and telephone firms learned a hundred or so years ago.
In our home network, we have an Apple Extreme network configured like this:
Brother Laser printer - upstairs, ethernet to router
Windows XP machine - upstairs, ethernet to router
Hub - downstairs, ethernet to router
Airport Express - downstairs, ethernet via hub
Tivo (was ReplayTV ’til its ethernet card died last week) - downstairs, ethernet via hub
MacMini - upstairs, Airport
Powerbook - upstairs and downstairs, Airport
The Extreme allocates 192. IP addresses and the Express 10. IP addresses. A while back, the Mini, which connects to the network via wifi, stopped printing to the Bonjour printer. So did my Powerbook, which also connected wirelessly. But the Windows machine, operating counter to type, worked. So I resorted to the sneaker net USB solution or the “mail it to myself at gmail solution” — converting everything to PDFs, of course.
Tonight — when I really did not have an hour to troubleshoot this — I got the bit in my mouth (so to speak) and I’ve figured out the problem. The printer gets its IP address from the Extreme. The address will always start 192. because it’s hard-wired to the router; this is why it and the Windows machine are simpatico. The Mini, on the other hand, has been known to stray to the 10. network (Don’t ask. I don’t know) … as does the Powerbook when I’m working downstairs.
And that, my friends, was the only frigging problem!
I was poking around network settings when I noticed that the Mini had a 10. address. I clicked the “renew lease” button, and the new address was a 192. one. I ran the printer scan, and this time the printer showed as configured and happy. [Earlier tonight, I uninstalled and reinstalled the printer as part of my troubleshooting; the Brother utility wasn't terribly helpful.]
Here’s hoping this little post helps some other poor soul out there!
After years of battling in the media format wars, Toshiba officially pulls the plug on HD DVD players. Production will end in March, InfoWeek reports. The sole survivor: Sony’s Blu-Ray. Vindication for losing the Beta/VHS battle?
This tip is for anyone who uses Firefox and who wants an easy way to post to a single blog or multiple blogs: get ScribeFire. I’ve just re-installed … my Christmas Eve hard drive crash is still making itself felt as I re-install this plugin or that application. (Secure Fetch was the most recent application.)
What does ScribeFire do? The ScribeFire icon sits at the bottom of the browser. Through the magic of Web 2.0, when you activate (click) it, a transparent text box floats at the foot of the browser window, on top of whatever you’re viewing. (Think Snap Preview, but nicer and transparent). Select the blog you wish to post to, tick off your categories, and post!
It doesn’t work with everything — for example, I can’t post to my US Politics blog with it. But it does work with this blog and my class blogs, all of which are hosted at WordPress. See for yourself!
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