A Wicket Diary

I had this old scanner laying around and found the need to scan some old photos. Of course I could take a picture of the picture using a 10MP digital camera, but somehow that isn’t as pretty or convenient as just scanning.

Apparently I didn’t search well enough for OS X scanner support last time I wanted to scan something. If you go looking for support for your old trusted Windows scanner after you’ve migrated to OS X, you may run into the same trouble I got myself in. Fortunately open source developers have provided the world with a set of drivers for OS X that enables your old trusted scanner under OS X. W00T!

Developers of TWAIN SANE: THANKS!

In a previous post, which happens to be high on Google’s search results when looking for OS X drivers and Logitech products, I lamented Logitech’s driver support for not working and mostly keeping quiet about it.

I’ve recently upgraded my MacBook Pro to Leopard and it seems that the freezing problem has been fixed. I haven’t encountered the spinning beach ball of death due to connecting my Logitech headset. But I must confess that I am very cautious currently when attaching the headset, and haven’t used it for a while. I’m slightly optimistic that this problem is solved.

I am the (currently not so proud) owner of a Logitech 250 USB headset that gives my patience a run for its money. Whenever I revive my Mac Book Pro (first generation core duo) and plug the USB headset into one of the USB ports, OS X grinds to a halt.

I’m not the only one who faces this problem. I can attest to the experience in that support discussion: it doesn’t matter in which USB port I plug the headset, or even if it is linked through my cinema display’s USB hub. The only thing I can add is that this happens when my mac book has been asleep.

Last time I complained on this blog about a thing that bugged me on OS X, it got resolved pretty quickly, so here’s hoping for us Logitech 250 owners!

No, this is not yet another rant about missing the Mustang in Leopard. The unofficial Apple weblog writes about the iComet, which is a picture of a comet in the shape of the Apple logo.

If we go, then at least we go out with style: Armageddon, designed by Apple in California.

I’ve eschewed downloading the Java 6 developer preview from Apple’s Developer Center since it was over a year old. And with Leopard around the corner, where is the much needed love for Java coming from Apple? Remember that OS X would be the number one Java development platform?

300 new features, but no mention of Java. I’d really hate to take James Gosling’s route and resort to using other operating systems to be able to continue to work for my company (we’re already deploying to Java 6).

The only quote I could find about Java on the Apple Leopard developer site was:

“You can even use 64-bit Java on capable Intel processors.”

Where’s the love?!?