Archive for July 5th, 2009

Adding a printer in Windows 7

July 5th, 2009 by stuffaboutlife | Comments Off | Filed in Technology


Just like most everything else in Windows 7, it makes sense, unlike the clunky and confusing Vista.

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The Devices and Printers window sorts out your stuff and assigns pretty icons to everything in an easy to see fashion. “Add a printer” is one of the common tasks at the top, so that’s where I’ll start.

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Just like previous Windows releases, it will search for printers and attempt to locate the correct driver for it. In this case, it located my TCP/IP printer, a Brother 2070N. The Driver selection window is basically unchanged from previous releases as well, so I didn’t even take a screenshot of it.

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That’s it! It added an icon that looks nothing like my printer at all, but it automatically selected it as the default printer. One change that they have made is to the contextual menu. If I right click on the printer, there’s an option for “See what’s printing.” This was “Print queue” in previous releases. They changed the wording to be a little more user friendly.

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Want to spiff up Safari?

July 5th, 2009 by stuffaboutlife | Comments Off | Filed in Technology

Check out some of the add-ons at Pimp My Safari. There’s a collection of Safari add ons that will do things like block ads, increase font size, and many other neat tricks.

I am not sure if they will work on the Windows version of Safari, though. They do seem to be geared towards Mac OS X only.

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The end of an era..

July 5th, 2009 by stuffaboutlife | Comments Off | Filed in Technology

Compuserve is no more.

“The original CompuServe service, first offered in 1979, was shut down this past week by its current owner, AOL.”

Sad times indeed. I had a Compuserve account years ago. I used to dial up to Compuserve with my trusty old Mac Classic II.

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