Category: 792: Desktop Printers in 10.6.X, iOS 5 Hidden Feature, Making a Bootable Lion Installer, A Greener AppleCare

Over the years there’ve been reports from various end users that Apple’s packaging of service parts is preposterously and unnecessarily large for the product inside. Of particular note was the recall of the latest form-factor USB power adapter for iPhone. The first version had a defect that could cause dangerous failure, and anyone who’d bought…

Unlike its predecessors, Lion is primarily a download-only version of Mac OS. You can purchase a preloaded flash drive from Apple, but it’s significantly more expensive than the standard download version. Here’s a way to make your own: Step one is to get yourself a flash drive; it needs to be at least 5GB in…

Here’s something I discovered recently on my iPad running iOS 5: If you are entering text, take a look at the button in the lower right corner, which has an icon of a keyboard. Press and hold this button for a couple of seconds and a little menu will show up. You have the option…

We listed “*the steps for creating a desktop printer in 10.5.X*”:http://blog.smalldog.com/article/mac-treat-62-make-a-desktop-printerdock-droplet/ in Barkings! back in 2008. Doing so allows you to print a file simply by dragging and dropping it onto a printer icon in your dock, eliminating the need to launch an application before printing it. Those steps in Snow Leopard and Lion are…

Happy Tuesday, I was off last week and took time to do plenty of nothing, but I made sure to enjoy stick season in the woods with Owen. This time of year is one of my favorites–so much of the landscape is visible with the leaves down, and it’s still easy to explore the forests…