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Snow Leopard

10.6: Revert to older Canon drivers to recover features – Mac OS X Hints

December 8, 2009

Some Canon printer drives have had problems with 10.6 and not displaying all print options. I know this sounds completely counter-intuitive, but bear with me…
With 10.6, some drivers were broken and Canon (like most companies) was pretty quick to release new drivers. In the case of Canon's Pixima iP##### line, there have been two different [...]

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HP All-In-One Printing and Scanning in Snow Leopard

December 7, 2009

Many users have had a problem with older printers after switching to Snow Leopard, and some of those older printers will never work in OS X 10.6. Whatever your opinion of that, it’s a fact.
HP printers and multi-function printer/scanner owners have been particularly noisy, as HP left it to Apple to include printer drivers for [...]

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Drobo Dashboard update fixes performance hit in 10.6

December 6, 2009

Some of us have noticed a nasty slowdown after updating to Snow Leopard, or buying a new Mac. In at least some cases (mine, for one) it’s caused by Drobo Dashboard, at least prior to the new 1.6.6 update, found here.
MacFixIt has a page reporting the performance drop on Macs that older versions of Drobo [...]

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Four unit conversion options in OS X

December 6, 2009

Number conversions are always convenient to have around. There are many times when you may need to convert grams to pounds, miles to kilometers, or see the latest exchange rates. In OS X there are some convenient ways to convert numbers that are readily available.
Calculator
The OS X calculator has a decent number converter in it. [...]

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Mac OS X 10.6.2 released – comments and issues

November 10, 2009

Apple released the Snow Leopard update that is supposed to fix all the problems. I for one haven’t had any problems to speak of, nor have the majority of users, but there have been a few reported that could be serious. Now they’re fixed, one hopes.
Apple’s About the Mac OS X v10.6.2 Update page has [...]

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Possibile Data Loss with Snow Leopard and guest account login

October 13, 2009

Avoid Data Loss – Don’t use Guest Account login
10.31.09 update
The easy way to avoid the bug: if you have Guest account enabled in Leopard, do away with it before you install the Snow Leopard upgrade. Then, *after* you have upgraded to Snow Leopard, re-enable the Guest account. You won’t have a problem.
original post:
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Snow Leopard tips and info, part one

September 17, 2009

It’s been a busy couple of weeks for me… but here it is: part one of an ongoing Snow Leopard (SL for short) info series.
Should I update to Snow Leopard?
The answer is a definite maybe… there are still some apps and utilities that haven’t been updated yet, and some printers that need new drivers, or [...]

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Apple released OS X 10.6.1 update for Snow Leopard

September 10, 2009

It didn’t take long for this update, fortunately. According to Apple this update fixes the following:

Improves compatibility with some Sierra Wireless 3G modems

Addresses an issue in which some printer compatibility drivers might not appear properly in the Add Printer browser

Addresses an issue that might cause DVD playback to stop unexpectedly

Addresses an issue that might make [...]

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More Snow Leopard info to come

August 31, 2009

It’s been a busy few days for me, but I’ve been compiling tons of info re: Snow Leopard, changes, improvements, problems, solutions, etc. and will be posting them as I have time.
In the mean time:
MacFixIt.com has a lot of great information, including MacFixIt Readers Report: Early Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard issues.
One [...]

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More Snow Leopard Answers

August 26, 2009

What do you need to know… what do you need to do?
Some of us will have our hands on the new Mac OS X 10.6, or Snow Leopard, within a couple of days. I am going to install it immediately, but don’t necessarily recommend that you do. It’s a .0 version. Even though it’s similar [...]

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