But that downward direction makes less sense if you are swiping the screen with your fingers. It feels more natural to push the page upwards with your fingertips, revealing more of the lower part of the page.

An awkward confusion ensues. Using the old, familiar drags and arrow keys doesn’t do what we expect. Press a down key and the page goes up. Kinda weird.

What feels right on an iPad feels wrong on a mouse-controlled iMac. Gestures on a laptop with a trackpad and arrow keys falls somewhere in between.

Of course it’s possible to make the adjustment with a bit of fumbling, but it’s not elegant. Recognizing the problem, Apple threw it back to us. We can choose which way we want scrolling to work. By default, scrolling in Mac OS X works the same way as it does on an iPad. If you want to have it work the old way, you can change the behaviour in your System Preferences.

Not a perfect answer. You can wind up with two different scrolling behaviours, depending upon which device you are using. You never get used to either method and have to fumble a bit each time you change machines.

I guess I’ll switch over and use the up arrow keys to scroll down pages. And I won’t laugh anymore at Windows users who must press the Start key to shut down their machines.

The only thing that worked for me was opening the Terminal app (it’s in Applications/Utilities) and typing in the following:

drutil tray eject

Then I pressed the Return key and the CD ejected.

More than that, HP didn’t bother to provide a driver that would work with Snow Leopard, so their printer is now landfill fodder. Waste.

HP feels no shame about this and even amuses us with the suggestion that we might want to buy a newer HP product.

“We are sorry to inform you that there will be no Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) support available for your HP product. Therefore your product will not work with Mac OS X 10.6.
If you are using the Mac OS X 10.6 operating system on your computer, please consider upgrading to a newer HP product that is supported on Mac OS X 10.6.”

Not likely, HP.

Snow Leopard comes with the printer driver for the HP Laserjet 4B/4MV Postscript, so you can set up your printer to use it when you are adding your printer in the System Preferences>Print & Fax pane.

Here are the instructions that worked for me, found online at <this page>. It’s the answer given by Witczaker.

My situation was slightly different, but by reading your post I figured it out. My MacPro is connected to a wireless router supplied by our Phone company, after upgrading to Snow Leopard, I lost my connection to my HP 4MV which has been my workhorse for years. I tried changing the IP address on the printer as you suggested, but even though the Printer setup would add the printer to my list of printers, when I tried to print, the MacPro could not communicate with the HP 4MV. Eventually, here is how I solved it. I went to “About this mac/More info” menu selected Network/Ethernet1, which is the port I have the cable from the wireless router coming into. This showed me the address of my MacPro, the address of the Router, and the Subnet Mask.

Now I went back to the MIO settings menu on the HP 4MV and made the IP (IP Byte) address similar to the address of my MacPro keeping all the numbers and dots the same as the MacPro but changing the last number to something different (201). Then I made sure the Subnet Mask numbers (SM Byte) on the 4MV were identical to the ones I saw on the MacPro. Then in the Gateway settings (GW Byte) in the MIO menu I put in the Router numbers I got off the MacPro. That did it, I plugged in the IP address in the printer setup “Line Printer Daemon – LPD” and it worked.

On the HP Laserjet 4MV, you change the printer’s settings by setting the printer to “Offline” and pressinf the MENU button until you get to MIO. Then you press the ITEM button to cycle through the MIO choices.

The first thing you set in the MIO menu is CFG NETWORK=YES. It is set to NO when you first see it. You change that to YES by pressing the + button and then the ENTER button to get the change to stick. An asterlsk appears, telling you that the change has happened. NOTE: the CFG NETWORK setting toggles back to NO eacn time you use it. Don’t think that your changes have not taken, when you go back and find the setting has reverted to NO. This is normal. You have to set it to YES each time, so that you can make the other changes.

These instructions helped me with the settings process:

Configure HP Laserjet 4MV to work with Snow Leopard by giving the printer a fixed IP number.

This is how to change the IP Address on the Front panel:

Press ONLINE BUTTON to put printer OFFLINE.

Press MENU until you get MIO MENU
Press ITEM, press + SIGN to get CFG NETWORK=YES
Press ENTER (you get asterisk)

Press ITEM until
Config TCP/IP=YES
Press ENTER (you get asterisk)

Press Item to get BOOTP=NO
Hold Item and press + sign continually until you get to the first IP number desired,
repeat 3 more times for the last 3 IP numbers.
Be sure to press ENTER to have each set of numbers saved.

I used IP No. 192.168.0.20
And Subnet 255.255.255.0
(which is the second set of numbers you enter.

Then go to Mac System Preferences, to the Print & Fax preference pane
Delete any old printer by clicking – minus sign

then Click the + plus sign to add your printer.

In the Protocol I used Line Demon Protocol and typed in the IP number of the router in this case (192.168.0.1)

[Update: I am still using the 4MV with OS X 10.7 Lion. Works just as it did with Snow leopard.]

Now when they start selling peanut butter on iTunes, that will be interesting.

The items I want to test go into the htdocs fplder inside the MAMP folder in my Applications. It comes with its own copy of phpMyAdmin, so that’s available to create a new database to feed to a new WordPress installation.

Here’s a YouTube movie about installing WordPress locally for use with MAMP.

Except for the money. Apparently, Mac sales generate a third of Apple’s revenue, so it gets a nod for that.

The name for X.7 suggests the King of Beasts. Is this the last of the blg cats?

Mac OS X has been through a huge number of very major developments (all those cats) and maybe it has been more or less completed now. That’s fine with me. It’s a great system to use and does ‘way more than I need.

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