Right now the hodge-podge of proprietary apps and drivers from HP, or Canon, or what-have-you aren’t getting it done, and it’s just a mess. I have an HP PSC 2175 all-in-one. This is a few years old, but still a wonderful device. It actually came with an Apple I ordered level years ago. I’ve never had a [mechanical] problem with it.

Now I can’t get OS X to scan with it, no way, no how. HP hasn’t updated their software to make the scanner portion function with Leopard (but Leopard has built-in drivers for the printer side). And the old drivers from Tiger were working until I updated to 10.5.4. Haven’t been able to scan since.

I even used MacPorts to install Xsane and all its dependencies — it kernel panics my Mac every damn time I try to load it. Something about the USB stack it really doesn’t like.

Anyway — that’s my rant. Apple needs to work on scanning in OS X. *sigh*

Parallels has released a public beta of its long-awaited server virtualization software. Licensing restrictions on OS X may make it less than ideal for some users, however. Not that you could virtualize Leopard Server in the current beta anyway.

Via Infinite Loop

Via MacMegasite

Too Late. I’ve switched to NetNewsWire and have not looked back. NewsFire pales in comparison.