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This week's article concerns printer sharing. Those of us that use equipment until it falls into pieces (you know who you are) should be especially pleased to know that you can often share your older printers not only with newer Macs, but also with PCs on the same...

Like every good mechanic, there's a tool that you have that you may only use once in a great while, but when you need it, it's there, and you can sigh a contented "Ahhhhh" of relief, knowing that it will do the trick for you. Pacifist from CharlesSoft is that...

On the PC, screen capture apps are a dime a dozen (okay, maybe $29.95 a dozen). Even the Mac has built-in screen capture functions using the CTRL-SHIFT-3 and CTRL-SHIFT-4 commands. But sometimes you need more capability, like choosing the download location, naming...

Apple's Dock was made to be simple and useful. Drag mostly anything into it and you can launch it from there. But the Dock has some built-in limitations to keep it simple and therefore not useful in all occasions. Launcher applications are a personal thing. They need...

If you remember my previous posting on FontCard from Unsanity, then you will appreciate this next jewel called FruitMenu. It provides the same functionality in OS X as the Apple Menu Items did in OS 9 – that is, to allow you to add commonly used applications, files,...

Mailing lists, company directories, product catalogs — any type of "bulk" information that has a uniform structure — belongs in a database. By structure I mean something that can be broken down into records and fields. For example, a simple database of contact...

There are advantages for professionals to having a full-featured, robust and extremely complex applications like Photoshop for doing certain kinds of graphic work that require $800, hours of training, and the processing power of MIT's Computer Development Lab. Then,...

Just took those great shots of your summer vacation, or your kids' graduation or a friend's wedding and want the whole world to see what a great photographer you are? Get them up on the web! But wait, you're no web guru. You can get the photos off your camera and into...

Ever try to shut down your Mac and it simply restarts or freezes? Maybe you try to do the simplest things like run the Software Update in System Preferences or Repair Permissions in Apple's Disk Utility and the program crashes. Ever try to install the recent version...