G. Dan Mitchell, we’ll call him Dan, likes to take photos. Oh how he LIKES to take photos and they are some seriously awesome photos (checkout his work at gdanmitchell.com). Dan and I have been talking back and forth on Twitter about things we’ve noticed in the latest version of Apple’s OS X operating system Snow Leopard. I haven’t really noticed anything weird, well except for mail being REALLY stringent on authentication, but then I read Dan’s blog post this morning. He can’t print.
This is a minor problem for most people but when you’re a photographer or a designer, well printing is something you just can’t live without.
The first problem I encountered was that the Epson 2200 sitting next to my computer no longer appeared in the the printer dialogs in Photoshop. Knowing that Snow Leopard supposedly will add new drivers as needed I tried to use the 10.6 preference panel to add drivers for the 2200. No luck – the system didn’t even see the connected printer.
I finally went to the Epson web site and followed their instructions which include:
Install Rosetta from Apple install disk.
Download the most recent pre-10.6 drivers for my printer and install.
Download and run their updater for drivers under 10.6
Done. Now I can see the printer via its Firewire connection… but not, as far as I can tell, via its USB connection.
So, I fire up Photoshop and try to make a test print using a black and white image. Things seem to be going more or less OK as I work my way through the usual setup and print process: Photoshop manages colors and all. But the print emerges looking very green and way too dark. I attempt to download and reinstall the Epson profile for the Epson Premium Lustre paper I’m using at the moment. Installer downloads… but won’t run.
I do a restart and try the profile installer one more time – still no go. Since the photo was one that I had not previously printed I decide to remove one variable and instead print a color image that I had successfully printed right before installing the update to OS X. Again… very greenish and far too dark. (G. Dan Mitchell)
One of the things that I’ve noticed is FTP droplets from Transmit no longer work. Not sure if this is because Transmit is still 32bit or if the protocol is being blocked or what. The droplets open and act like they’re transferring but nothing gets moved to the server. Mail is also constantly warning of certificates, even after you hit OK and can’t figure out which mailbox to send through if you have multiple (even with a default set).
Hopefully Dan will get his problems worked out soon. Until then there is no way I’d recommend installing this on a production machine, which I already have. Wait a week or three until all the quirks and bugs are worked out.
Recently I’ve been suffering from Information Overload. I have way too many RSS feeds from way too many sites I like to read. The problem is obvious, it’s nearly impossible to read ANY of them. Where do you begin? How do you organize them?
So recently Shaun Inman’s Fever was brought back into my field of vision. I’d looked at it before but wasn’t sure it was what I wanted in a feed reader. It basically works by giving articles a temperature. The more an article is discussed (linked to) in your RSS feed the higher the temperature is. There’s a section called Kindling for feeds you want to read everyday and one called Sparks for link blogs and news sites to basically build heat.
That’s what’s revolutionary. There are only 3 sections forcing you to figure out what is important to you. Once I started my introspective journey I was able to pare my Kindling, the things I want to read daily, down to 20 feeds. Totally manageable. The 20+ Apple sites who basically regurgitate the same articles are now in the Sparks feeding my Hot page. The 40 or so Design sites are also in Sparks buiding heat. Windows sites? Sparks. News? Sparks.
Then another idea hit me, why don’t I add Twitter and Friendfeeds. Then I can see what’s on the top of everyone’s head in real time. So I started adding people like Dave Winer, Robert Scoble, Doc Searls, etc. Now Fever has become incredibly more useful. Not only am I seeing what’s hot in my RSS feeds but I’m seeing the discussions that are taking place in real time and what everyone is talking about. The more feeds you add, the better the sampling. It’s kind of like going to a restaurant you’ve never tried before, looking what everyone else is eating and then ordering that. Well, maybe that’s not the best analogy but I’m hungry and you get the idea.
So what’s the gist. Get Fever. Try Fever. You need a web server with PHP and MySQL. If you have CRON setup you can have the feeds pulled all the time, otherwise it only pulls them when the browser requests a page. If you plan on adding a lot of feeds I recommend CRON. Shaun Inman, the maker of Fever and Mint, has an installer that makes sure your server is compatible. If it is you’ll get a code that you enter on the download page and then you can purchase Fever. If Fever isn’t compatible with your server it won’t let you buy it. How nice is that? If you’re on MediaTemple Fever works fine with your server.
To check out Fever visit FeedaFever.com
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