Once you’ve decided that you want to go paperless, you will need a good scanner for document management on your Mac. There are 3 major types of scanners to choose from. Flatbed Scanners Sheetfed Scanners Portable Scanners And some devices are considered to be both portable and sheetfed. Flatbed Scanners I will start with the [...]
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… and a coupon too! Valentine’s Day is fast approaching – and a laptop skin from SkinIt is the perfect way to get festive. These skins come in a gorgeous selection of patterns. I have pictured just a few above. What’s A Skin? Think of vinyl clings for windows. Just peel and stick. Best of [...]
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The thing about Mac keyboards – well, they are white. Don’t get me wrong – I like the white color. But the keys get soooo dirty. Just this morning – I could stand it no longer. I had shut down my Mac to add more RAM (another story). And since I was sprucing things up [...]
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I just discovered something called Gelaskins. These are gorgeous “skins” for a bunch of different electronic gadgets including the MacBook Pro and the iPhone. What is a Skin? A skin is a thin vinyl coating that covers your device. It provides good scratch protection but it is not as protective as a case. These skins [...]
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A little foreshadowing: RIP. I have had my hp c6180 all in one printer for years. It served me very well. Until recently. I ran out of the light blue ink and replaced the cartridge with one that was expired – I just don’t go through this color too quickly, and I had an original [...]
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I know that I am not the only one with this issue – and it is an annoying one. Sometimes – when my Mac drops into sleep mode – the bluetooth connection for the trackpad, mouse and keyboard drops. So, when the the computer reawakens, I can’t move my cursor and I can’t type or [...]
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Help! I have an Epson Stylus NX510 that I picked up for free maybe a year ago. Well, my hp 6180 finally died. RIP. More on that saga later. But luckily, I had the Epson. Or so I thought. Today I set it up and getting the Mac to install the drivers is a no [...]
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So today I awoke to this lovely message on my hp c6180 all in one printer display: “Pump Motor Stalled”. Now this printer has been acting funny for about a month – giving me “ink system failure” love notes every now and again. I finally came across a way to do a hard system reset [...]
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The right Mac keyboard is an important part of the whole Apple experience. I mean if you don’t like the feel of the keys – you won’t have fun computing. I have had the opportunity to use a variety of Apple’s offerings over the past few years – and I have to say that my [...]
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Yesterday I wrote a page about the necessity of surge protectors for mac computers. I have provided a link to that page here on the blog. For those of you familiar with blogging and websites – you may have noticed that I have recently been waffling between the two structures to figure out what works [...]
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