Printing from OS X 10.5 to a Canon Pixma MX330 shared on a Windows XP box

Since there are no drivers available to print to a shared Pixma MX330 that I am aware of, I have been unable to print to the printer. And because there are no drivers that allow the DNS-323 to host the Pixma MX330 as well, that was out, too.
The following did work though, except actually printing [...]

Easy Lynx for OS X?

Setting up CPAN for Perl on the Mac. The install asks about Lynx. So I need an easy way to install Lynx…
Lynxlet: Lynx for Mac OS X
Lynxlet is an application for launching the text web browser Lynx in a Terminal window. Lynxlet is a Termlet – a class of applications designed to make [...]

Building Flexlib from SVN source to get openEnd and closeEnd events for WindowShade

Short version: You must provide a path to the manifest.xml file in order for ant to find it! For example:
<arg line=”-namespace http://code.google.com/p/flexlib/ /path/to/manifest.xml” />
Long version: I didn’t know that… thought it makes total sense in hindsight.
I am using the very nifty WindowShade from the life-saving (OK that’s a bit melodramatic…) FlexLib library. However, I wanted [...]

Image browsers for OS X

This has got a good listing of image browsers. Good reviews. I need it for working with tons of icons used in development. I want to quickly get around and view stuff. These help. Imagebrowser and FFView are both quite good.
knoPerBlog » The holy Grail: Image browser freeware stuff
A quick summary of today’s [...]

Get your windows Outlook to your Mac

A friend asked about doing this and this is one clean non-techie way that is cheap and may perhaps work. The reference link is pretty old though so perhaps there is something newer.
Little Machines
O2M may be the fastest way to move your Windows® Outlook® email, contacts, and calendar appointments from your PC to [...]

How to quicikly loc your mac

I was trying to find a way to quickly loc a mac without logging out, etc. This does the trick. There is even a keyboard shortcut that can be used as well.
Macworld | Mac OS X Hints | Quickly lock your screen
But what if you don’t want to always lock your screen [...]