OSX conains drivers for almost all printers know to man. By the off chance the mac does not have the driver, you should be able to downloaded from the printers website
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OSX conains drivers for almost all printers know to man. By the off chance the mac does not have the driver, you should be able to downloaded from the printers website
not true,
and false.
both your statement are false. OSX doesn't have all the drivers known to man, as a matter of facts, I doubt it has drivers for half of the printers on the market now.
and when OSX doesn't have the driver for printer, U have good chance NOT be able to find any driver for the printer.
Please tell me more about accounts.
I do not even know what account I am using.
All I know is that everytime I want to make an installation, osx requires password.
I want to have many privileges, so that I can do my tasks fast and efficiently, but I also want to be safe.
Should I create a new account?
Could I use admin account?
Is it good not having passwords? If not, where do I set it?
I do not even know what account I am using.
All I know is that everytime I want to make an installation, osx requires password.
I want to have many privileges, so that I can do my tasks fast and efficiently, but I also want to be safe.
Should I create a new account?
Could I use admin account?
Is it good not having passwords? If not, where do I set it?
check your system preference->accounts
on the left side, u will see all accounts there, there should be smaller fonts below the account's name indicating the type of the acc, "admin" means administrator account.
I think Password is necessary, after all, as a branch of Unix, normal users like you and me, once given root privileges, might do severe damage to the system without even knowing it.
on the left side, u will see all accounts there, there should be smaller fonts below the account's name indicating the type of the acc, "admin" means administrator account.
I think Password is necessary, after all, as a branch of Unix, normal users like you and me, once given root privileges, might do severe damage to the system without even knowing it.
Depending on the drive, you could see if it appears in Disk Utility, and re-mount it from that... that works with at least one of my USB2 disks...
Please answer in whatetever you want:
- how can I make finder to display always the path of folder/file I am looking for?(something like address bar)
-how can search for text strings inside documents? I did not found something looking at spotlight preferences.
-does spotlight supports wildcards correctly?
- how can I get info for all the files together, when I select them one by one? Lets say I want to see the filesize of 5 files. As far as I know, I can have info about a single folder, or a single file. If I select 5 files, I will get 5 windows of file info. But I do not want that. I want an overall 'get info' window.
-when I do updates of my osx system, how can I see what is the version number of an application I have and compare it with the version number that the system update tells me to update to? I need to know these two version numbers, how can I obtain such info?
- how can I make finder to display always the path of folder/file I am looking for?(something like address bar)
-how can search for text strings inside documents? I did not found something looking at spotlight preferences.
-does spotlight supports wildcards correctly?
- how can I get info for all the files together, when I select them one by one? Lets say I want to see the filesize of 5 files. As far as I know, I can have info about a single folder, or a single file. If I select 5 files, I will get 5 windows of file info. But I do not want that. I want an overall 'get info' window.
-when I do updates of my osx system, how can I see what is the version number of an application I have and compare it with the version number that the system update tells me to update to? I need to know these two version numbers, how can I obtain such info?
Choose the files you want info on, right-click (or ctrl-click or two-finger-click) and hold down ctrl-button to Get Summary Info instead of the regular Get Info.
I connect mobile with mac through usb, I did add device but it cannot find my phone. Why?
When in Finder, go into Custom Toolbar and drag the Path icon into the finder toolbar. Now when you click on that you'll get a path.
I know that I can change the keys for changing typing language.
The default keys are not practical for me.
I would like to have something like the windows default (alt-shift) but every possible key combination I tried (the practical combinations for me-not every combination) was already occupied and defined by the system.
I think about making changes to these key combinations but I would like to hear about your practical combinations.
The main purpose is to change language just using only the left hand.
The default keys are not practical for me.
I would like to have something like the windows default (alt-shift) but every possible key combination I tried (the practical combinations for me-not every combination) was already occupied and defined by the system.
I think about making changes to these key combinations but I would like to hear about your practical combinations.
The main purpose is to change language just using only the left hand.
I have folder full of videos.
The codecs exist on the system because I play them.
I would like to see them in a thumbnail view, displaying the first frame of each video.
Now, all I can see like thumbnail view, are big logos of quicktime for each video.
The codecs exist on the system because I play them.
I would like to see them in a thumbnail view, displaying the first frame of each video.
Now, all I can see like thumbnail view, are big logos of quicktime for each video.
Should I suppose that this could not be done (windows explorer do it) and I need a third party special browser-file manager?
I tried to see for a while the application 'skype'.
Now, everytime I startup my mbp, skype loads and ask me about installing, accepting licence etc.
It is very annoying.
How can I get rid of this?
I tried to find every single file of skype using spotlight but even now that I deleted some files, skype loads at startup.
Where can I control what loads on startup? How can I delete the skype?
Now, everytime I startup my mbp, skype loads and ask me about installing, accepting licence etc.
It is very annoying.
How can I get rid of this?
I tried to find every single file of skype using spotlight but even now that I deleted some files, skype loads at startup.
Where can I control what loads on startup? How can I delete the skype?
Then I guess you've never written software. When people write apps, it is usually assumed that the software is running as a regular user on the system, without admin privileges. The system's behaviour can change when run as superuser (depends on OS, etc...). Suppose the app is about to delete some files, and it assumes it can only delete the files it has permissions for; well, if it's admin, depending on the situation, it could accidentally blow a lot of stuff away.
Running as admin isn't just a security threat because of malicious code; software has bugs. The developers of the programs you're running often don't trust their own code enough to run it as admin. You shouldn't either.
Although, I'm speaking mostly from my experience with Linux here. Also, I guess the other issue is privacy if you're on a multi-user system.
You can locate apps programed to launch upon startup in System Preferences > Accounts > (Your Account) > Login Items > (Select the app and press the "-" button to delete).
If you wish to completely delete Skype, just drag the file called Skype.app from your applications folder to the trash.
I am a bit confused with all these application pop up windows.
There are many times I search to find where a new window lies!
For example, when I use firefox, when it opens the window to download a file, if I did not press a button and I hit another application, when I come back to firefox the window of downloading a file is not there! It is hidden. Fortunatelly there is expose but is this normal?
It is not only firefox doing this.
Canon's scanner software do the same also.
And other applications too.
I am searching for the windows all the time.
And in mac os x there is not the feature the microsoft windows has, when a new window opened, it exists in taskbar. In mac os x no new window takes a place in dock unless the user minimize it.
Am I doing something wrong?
There are many times I search to find where a new window lies!
For example, when I use firefox, when it opens the window to download a file, if I did not press a button and I hit another application, when I come back to firefox the window of downloading a file is not there! It is hidden. Fortunatelly there is expose but is this normal?
It is not only firefox doing this.
Canon's scanner software do the same also.
And other applications too.
I am searching for the windows all the time.
And in mac os x there is not the feature the microsoft windows has, when a new window opened, it exists in taskbar. In mac os x no new window takes a place in dock unless the user minimize it.
Am I doing something wrong?
You aren't doing something wrong. It is just a difference between Windows and Mac. On Windows, if one program is in front of another, all the windows belonging to that program usually are too. On mac, this is not always so.
To find the window, simply click on the "Window" menu in the menu bar, which will list all menus, or press-and-hold or right click the icon in the dock and it will list all windows belonging to that program.
The window is still there, it is just hiding behind windows belonging to another application.