Matt Matty answers:

You can install the Yahoo! Toolbar for Firefox on Mac OSX. I currently run OSX and have toolbar running just fine.

Matt Matty answers:

I can’t imagine why a web host would say they don’t support Macs. That’s impossible.

Personally, I use both GoDaddy and Little Oak.  I prefer Little Oak the best because they tout themselves as being the choice for Mac users.  They also integrate well with Rapidweaver and iWeb tools.  GoDaddy has pretty good pricing but the user interface is horrible.  Little Oak interface is much better and their email hosting is much more robust.

Little Oak supports both POP and IMAP email hosting where as GoDaddy only provides a complimentary POP account.  If you want IMAP, you have to pay for that service.

The Apple option “MobileMe” – now iCloud, just isn’t worth it. It doesn’t support PHP or MySQL and all the other advanced features you can get from a real web host.  The only downside I have with Little Oak is that they don’t provide a means to add FTP users with restricted access.  This does not work well for sites hosted on a client’s behalf.  For those types of hosting, it’s better to go with GoDaddy.  However, if you are only talking about your own personal websites, I think Little Oak is the best choice.

Heres a link to Little Oak Web Hosting.  I’d appreciate you using my referral code “ 9hu96nG2Cu ” (without the quotes).

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I would advise getting a seperate printer and scanner, and setting up your computer to recieve faxes (you can save to disk and print them out if you want or choose auto-print. Saves you some ink.)

As far as performace/ease of use, this would be the best option, especially for photo printing because you can’t get an all-in-one with the same 6 or 8 color ink system that you can with stand-alone. Also, if one of your components breaks, you’re out of luck, but with seperate items, just replace the item that is broken. Also, I have come into problems with my g/f Windows machine recognizing which part of the unit it’s supposed to be addressing (scanner/printer), but have never tried an all-in-one on my mac.

As far as the money goes, a seperate system costs about the same, if not less, as an all-in-one.

As far as HP goes, they’re okay… I am really diggin’ their sleeker designs, but I have noticed that my g/f pays a lot more for her ink. I have an Epson R220, and although their ink is harder to find, the 6 ink printing system makes my ink last longer and they’re replacement cartridges are less expensive than HP. I would recommend Canon or Epson and say “run away” from Lexmark.

Matt Matty answers:

I’ve always like HP printers.  I’ve owned and used them all but the HP units always stay in my office.  The latest printer I’ve fallen in love with is the HP C410a.  This is a great all-in-one unit that has a separate tray for photo paper and copies, faxes, and prints beautiful documents.  I actually own two of these units – 1 at home and 1 at the office.  The ink cartridges could be more affordable but the printer works great and that is what matters the most to me.

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I do not understand your statement “cannot get updates for my printer”? Be specific so we can troubleshoot.

If you need to update your printer, go to HP’s website and download the latest driver for that printer (whatever model you have). Look on the left side of the page and follow the wizard to find the printer you have.

http://www.shopping.hp.com/printer?jumpid=in_R329_prodexp/hhoslp/ipg/lateralnav_printers

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Mac software works with Mac computers only, you will need to find the driver for windows XP, look at HP’s site, it shouldn’t be too hard to find.

Matt Matty answers:

Idle means it didn’t get anything to print: sitting idle.

If it received a job but didn’t print, it would have said something about “print job received” or something like that and flash a paper error.

Sounds like a cabling problem to me.

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Take a look at either the Epson Artisan or Workforce series – you should be able to find a model among these that will do everything you need it to and suit your budget.

I’ve used epson printers with my mac for years and have found them very reliable, good qualiity and no hassles with them at all.

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As you can download Mac OS X drivers from the following page, I guess you could say that it is compatible with Apple Mac computers.

Happy printing.

Matt Matty answers:

Unfortunatly it will probably not work well with the mac. Dell does not make Drivers(software that lets the printer work with a specific OS/Computer) for Mac.

Sometimes you can find gimp or user created drivers if you do a Google search for: “printer make model” driver for osx …. I.e. Dell easyprint 2300 driver download osx

you can also try going to dell.com and accesing thier support and driver download section for your printer and see if they have drivers available for mac osx

and as a last resort, and i STRESS last resort, you can try calling Dell and asking if there are compatible drivers or known working drivers

Matt Matty answers:

I have the HP C4180 which is a combined inkjet printer and scanner / copier, it will copy a photo to paper on it’s own or scan directly to the computer, also has a number of slots for digital camera memory cards which you can also access directly from the computer, or print photos directly from using the printer.

Runs great on my iMac with Snow Leopard (OS X 10.6).

Oh and yes, you can scan anything that will fit on the A4 scan glass, including photographs, text documents (it will do a very good job of translating it to a text document too if you want), pictures, magazine articles… Sometimes you need to spend a bit of time tweaking the colour balance or brightness etc, but all scanners are like that.

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Yes, they work great and are my favorite printers but before you buy, check the model numbers and make sure they are compatible with the iPad and iPhone in case you may want to print using these hand held devices – either now or in the future.

Good site that lists those printers can be found here:  iPad Compatible Printers | Wireless Apple Tablet Printing

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Nope – sorry but it’s not.