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A new lease on old hardware

In 2003, I bought an HP OfficeJet 7110 all-in-one, a big, boxy monster that did (and still does) printing, scanning, faxing and copying. I’ve barely ever used it to fax, but the feature is there in case I need it. Now I’m using it over our wireless network with an Apple AirPort Express, and it [...]

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Condensed knowledge for 2008-03-18

Canon EOS 5D v1.1.1 Firmware Update http://tinyurl.com/2emzxn #
Apple Releases Safari 3.1 With New CSS and HTML 5 Feature Support http://tinyurl.com/2uyu79 #
Safari 3.1 renders my site faster than Firefox and IE 7. Gmail and Google Reader also load faster. I like it. #
Safari 3.1 also uses a different color management profile than Firefox and IE. Color [...]

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Target not the best place to get prints

I suppose this won’t come as a surprise to the more serious photographers out there, but I thought I’d let you know anyway. You can order prints via Flickr, that’s common knowledge. And when you do that, you can choose to pick them up at your local Target store instead of waiting to get them [...]

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Meet LaserMonk in Chief

You wouldn’t think a monastery deep in the western woods of Wisconsin would be involved with re-manufactured laser printer cartridges, but there they are, a multimillion dollar business, up to their necks in profits… See, the monastery was in dire financial straits, and Father Bernard McCoy, now the Chief Operating Monk, struggled to keep it [...]

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Bonjour for Windows 1.0.3

Downloaded Bonjour for Windows, tried it out, and I’m a little disappointed. All it does is to allow you to share printers across the network. True enough, worked very easily to allow me to install the shared printer from my iMac, but I expected it to allow me to see the shared Mac drives as [...]

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A better way to store and install printer drivers

How many of us have been irked by the fact that we had to always install printer drivers for our printing devices?
I think printers should store common printer drivers in on-board flash memory chips, and should be programmed to allow us to install the drivers directly from the printer, thus eliminating the need for driver [...]

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