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Q: We have a Xerox workcenter 4150 at our department and it works fine with all clients connected. The only problem I have is with a Mac OS 10.6 user. I can print from FireFox, entourage, and Safari but not from Word or PowerPoint. Do you guys know why is that? I re-installed the drivers and put the latest version but it still wont work.

Q: I am trying to upload a site and am having problems. I used Dreamweaver to put the files up to the ftp address and when I type in the URL it says “test index file”. The index file is at the site root.

My other problem is that I compressed the filesize of the site by converting images to .pngs but when I test it on Safari I see nothing.

Q: I’m using Safari 3.1.2 as a web browser. Is there a way to turn off the address bar’s auto-fill feature?

Q: I have finally upgraded from an Apple mighty mouse to a Logitech MX Revolution. The new mouse has thumb buttons for backwards and forwards and I want to use them to switch between tabs in applications like FireFox, Safari, Terminal, and Adium. My problem is they all seem to use different sequences to switch between tabs, is there anything I can do about this?

A: There are actually some key sequences that each of those applications share for switching between tabs. The problem is most people, using those applications, get used to one of the sequences that use the arrow keys and the applications do not share the same sequences when it comes to the arrow keys. The sequences they do share actually revolve around the brackets or more specifically the curly brackets. Read the rest of this entry »