Tutorials

Snow Leopard OS X 10.6 features a ’Windows’ tab in their ’Add a Printer’ dialog. Only problem: it doesn’t work. At least not for shared printers connected to Windows 7. Fortunately, that doesn’t mean you can’t print to a shared Windows 7 printer from a Mac OS X machine using a moderately simple workaround. The trick is to use the Line Printer Daemon protocol/Line Printer Remote (LPD/LPR) protocol. In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to print documents to a printer connected to a Windows 7 computer from a Mac via a local network.

After two articles on how to create a task, for both beginners and advanced users, I continue our series on Task Scheduler with a tutorial about the commands which can be executed on an already created task. More precisely, I will show how to run a task on demand, how to end, disable, import, export and delete an existing task. I will share details on what are the effects of each of these commands, together with usage examples so you can make the best of this powerful tool - Task Scheduler.

In terms of file compatibility, Windows Media Player 12 is by far the most ecumenical to date. Where Microsoft once tacitly shunned third-party file types - such as Apple’s Quicktime (.MOV) and DivX - it now supports an impressive number of file types out of the box. Still, avid media enthusiasts will occasionally come across a video file type that Windows Media Player 12 can’t handle natively. Luckily, all you’ll need to for the small fraction of video formats that Microsoft chose not to support from the get go, is a handy codec pack. This tutorial will show you how to install the K-Lite Mega Codec Pack, which enables support for virtually every video file type under the sun.

Taking ownership files or folders in Windows in general, is a process that takes time and a bit of attention. Fortunately for us, there are solutions which allow you to add or remove the Take Ownership shortcut to the right click context menu. In this article I will cover two of these solutions.