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Help. How do I get an HP officejet D135 (an All In One printer, scanner, fax) to work right under OS X (10.2.6)?
They have drivers (4.6.5 and an alph 4.7.something) but both are incredibly buggy and over time consume huge amounts of CPU resources (like over 70%, when it's not even doing anything?) How could this not be fixed yet?
Is Gimp Print my only hope? Doubt that's going to run the scanner though.
For the hopelessly addicted among you, and really I guess that means me, here are four high res shots of the new P810. Now referred to as the P900. One, two, three, four. Looks like the camera will be just VGA 640x420 instead of the rumored 1.3 megapixels.
Frankly, this doesn't bother me. I don't want super high res in my phone cam until the camera itself can spit out thumbnails (why can't they already?) In other words, I'd love to shoot with x million pixels resolution, and store those images in the phone (to download to computer next time I sync,) but I need the phone to make a smaller version (100K or so) that I can send it right away over the slow mobile network (either to a server or to another phone.) I hate to think how long it would take to send a 1.3 MB file over the mobile network I use now.
No word on when this phone will ship (maybe not too soon, seeing as the P800 is still not completely available.)
In other P800 family news, here's a link to an SSH client. The server is presently slashdotted, but when it comes back to life I want to check this out. SSH is a protocol that allows you to log into a unix computer from a remote location using encryption. This is the reason I can have my server in California while I'm in NYC. It's the king of all geek protocols. So, of course, something I really want on my mobile.
And here is a company that has an SSH client for the Blackberry, and a beta of one for the Nokia 3650 & 6800.
I hate how hard they make it for 3rd parties to write software for the SideKick. This seems to be mainly T-Mobile's fault.
Another fun one from gizmodo: Panasonic wireless (WiFi) webcams. Each unit has a built in web server, so you can access the camera from anywhere on your network, or depending on your firewall, from anywhere on the internet. And it has remote control pan and tilt (nice!).
This has been a while in coming, but it looks like Brighthand is set to finally release their SDIO WiFi card. (SDIO is an expansion slot format used in small mobile devices - usually PDAs - that is smaller than the otherwise similar PC Card slots.) This means most PDAs can now be WiFi equipped. August 1 is the release date, and December should see the follow on card that adds 256 megs of RAM to the deal. No word yet on power consumption which at present represents something of a hurdle for these small devices.