Scanner Sharing

By Mark Tennent in Reader

Posted in Apple on August 31, 2009 at 9:52 am

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Were we surprised by Snow Leopard? Not at all, we’ve had it since last year after signing in blood, promising not to reveal any information. Now I’m afraid you’ve got to be assassinated for learning that tidbit.

We’ll miss regular calls by the DHL man delivering a new version. The latest build DVDs always arrive in a huge cardboard wallet, inside a brand new padded mailing envelope. These we can re-use and save us fortune in our stationery budget. Hopefully there will be one more delivery with a copy of the grand master, as on sale at all fine Mac stores, unless it is build 10A432 (can someone let us know) which we have already.

For what is effectively a major rewrite as big as the original 10.0 beta of eight years ago, Snow Leopard was good from the first beta released to the wild. It became our default operating system many weeks ago. There may not be any great new features, mainly making sure that the ones already in the OS are working properly but like most things from Apple, it just works.

Scanning
All the reviews on the web seem to have missed one feature: scanner sharing. As long as both Macs are running Snow Leopard, you can scan over any network, wired or wireless. It’s easy to set up in Sharing Preferences and can be used either from the Printer and Fax Preference pane or Image Capture (in the Applications folder) both of which can control all the scanner’s built-in abilities. Snow Leopard even automatically finds the scanner driver and may even search the web for one it if it doesn’t already have one installed. This is a maybe because we haven’t been able to test this feature.

No doubt the coming week will see the usual number of Mac users complaining that Snow Leopard has broken their favourite application, turned the milk sour or made their iPod blow up. In all the months we’ve been using it, Apple’s engineers have either fixed any clashes with software and hardware, or new versions have been released. For us, the last remaining glitches are with Logmein and Intellihance 4.1 which runs incredibly slowly in Photoshop CS2. Otherwise all our applications and gadgets are working with Snow Leopard.

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