Mac Fangirl

doing it all with a mac, technically speaking

Entries for October, 2009

My Apple AirPort Express won’t detect my new HP printer for wireless printing

I purchased the Apple AirPort Express Base Station along with a brand new HP Officejet 6500 USB printer. The whole idea was to connect the printer’s USB cable from the printer to the Airport and have my MacBook Pro detect the printer to enable wireless printing.
Well, my enthusiasm has waned considerably. AppleCare sent me a [...]

Going from Leopard to Snow Leopard: a To Do List

I’ve been looking forward to the latest and greatest Mac OS and now that it’s been on store shelves for a few weeks I’m doing whatever I can to prepare for a smooth transition.
Here’s my very preliminary list of things to do before I actually place the disk in the drive and over write Leopard.
There [...]

Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 Display Elements

As posted earlier, the black screen was a real problem after making changes in Code view and switching back to Design view to see the results.
Turns out that by toggling the Visual Aids (Hiding/unHiding) the elements re-appear. But why they disappeared in the first place still eludes me.

I tested the same files in Dreamweaver CS4 [...]