Because the internet needed another blog
A little while ago, I had the following conversation over dinner:
Michael, speaking with the same enthusiasm with which he is chewing his dinner (which is a lot, considering it is delicious):
“So I’m trying to decide. Should I write about how to scan on the mac, or something different?”
Everybody at dinner:
“BoooorrriiiiZzzzzz.”
So it’s possible, I suppose, that ‘how to scan on the Mac’ isn’t the most riveting of subjects. But I actually get that question a lot, and here’s why.
Q: How do I have my printer remember my last settings?
Has this happened to you? You pull up your beautifully crafted document, go to the ‘File’ menu and choose ‘Print’. In the helpful little dialogue box that comes up, you realize that, no, you don’t want to print all 80 pages in glorious full color, and in fact, while you might not consider yourself a tree hugger per se, you wouldn’t consider yourself a tree-sucker-puncher either, so you would like to print two-sided. You click around on some menus, fiddle with some buttons and voila! The document prints the way you would like it to. Feeling well pleased with yourself, and rightfully so, you wander away from your trusty Macintosh to save the world/defeat an army/bring about world peace/go to the bathroom.