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HP LaserJet M1522 Scanning in Lion?: Apple Support Communities

 

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HP LaserJet M1522 Scanning in Lion?: Apple Support Communities. Thanks DocStan. Normally using old software causes problems, but I suppose it is worth trying when nothing else works.

HI.

I just got my printer scanning on the network.  It works from both my iMac and MacBook (wirelessly) and here’s how:

1.  GO to HP’s website:  www.hp.com and click on “Support and Drivers” at the top

2.  Click on “Drivers and Software” on the next page

3.  Search for the M1522   (I have a M1522nf) and click on the printer that you want

4.  THIS IS KEY:  When the list of OS comes up choose “Mac OS X”  WITH NO VERSION EXTENSION – that is don’t go to “Mac OS X 10.7″

5.  Download and install the most recent version of hte driver.  I ended up with:

HPLaserJetM152MFPseries1.4.0.dmg

6.  Run the program and install the software.

You do not need to plug the USB cable into the printer if it is a networked printer.

7.  You can then scan from “HP Director” – the program you’ve installed.

Image Capture doesn’t work, you need to use the HP software, but so far that works well for me.  I’ve done it on both my Macs.

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Aluminum Keyboard Firmware Update 1.1 …

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Interesting side effect.  William Harris solved his own question.

By resetting the power on my USB hub that got the keyboard working – strange though because other things were working on USB just not the keyboard.

via Apple – Support – Discussions – Aluminum Keyboard Firmware Update 1.1 ….

 

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Do you want to change how Mac Screen captures work?

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You know if you do lots of screen captures this could be a huge time saver.  Nice options.  People say they can’t modify how the Mac behaves. Pshaw!

via UsingMac.com – Mac Tricks and Tips, Wallpapers and Applications for Mac Users.

 

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Speeding up my Wi-Fi b/g network at home (via Matt’s work blog)

If you are using this custom firmware called Tomato you probably don’t need anyone to tell you to turn on afterburner. But just in case, here you go.

Speeding up my Wi-Fi b/g network at home I was trying to watch recorded HD content from my HTPC on my laptop, but it would stutter and be unwatchable. I quickly realised that my wireless network was too slow. So to diagnose the problem I tried copying a large (2 Gb) file across my wireless network and see what sort of speeds I was getting. Only around 700Kb/second! Hmm, that seems awfully slow. I opened up my router‘s config page (Linksys WRT54GL using the patched tomato firmware) and t … Read More

via Matt’s work blog

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iPhone OS 4 Upgrade failed – now got a …

Dimplemonkey said “After spending an overnight trying to make rhyme and reason of this upgrade, I believe Ive solved the riddle of the sphinx. At least for me, hopefully for you as well. Two key items to note: 1. I downloaded the firmware straight from Apples servers Google that and 2. I used the USB cable that came with my iPhone 3Gs. Note: Its only when I swapped out the cable I was using my iPod USB cable all this time is when all of a sudden significant progress was made.I hope this saves someone an awful amount of time today.”

Tinear10 said that nothing changed but it worked this morning.  So it might fix itself.

via Apple – Support – Discussions – iPhone OS 4 Upgrade failed – now got a ….

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How to flash the firmware – 3rd party hack

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This might void your warranty.  It fixed the issue that one person was having after applying a firmware update however for this issue: iMac 27 SMC Firmware Update : Fans at maximum speed

Thanks Mitch149!

“Ok, but be informed that you will do this at your own risk.

First download and install Refit. It’s an alternative efi for Mac OS X. Then you will have to download the SMC firmware on Apple Downloads and extract the content using Pacifist. In the package you will find 3 files, k23.smc (SMC firmware for C2D iMac late 2009), k23f.smc (SMC firmware for quadcore iMac) and SmcFlasher.efi (tool to flash the firmware). Put the firmware you need and the smcflasher in Users/yourname.

Then reboot you iMac. You will arrive on refit. Select the shell (command line icon). Then type the following :

fs1:
cd Usersyourname
SmcFlasher.efi -LoadApp k23f.smc
reset

So the fs1: identify the hard drive
cd Usersyourname is the place you put the files
SmcFlasher.efi -LoadApp k23f.smc tell the system to launch the smcflasher and apply the firmware, in this case the SMC firmware for the quadcore iMac.
Reset tell the system to reboot.

Then you can check that the version of SMC is no more 0.000 and you can uninstall refit (see the readme file).”

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