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Print Test Page Showdown!

25 Jun 2024 Leave a comment

by CharlesB in desktop publishing, Macintosh, Windows Tags: print test page, Toshiba

You asked for it, and we did it. A recent office printer purchase was the perfect scenario to do the Mac versus Windows Print Test Page Competition, i.e., to test out the “print test page” function on the Mac and Windows printer system settings. Do they return the same results?

We printed to the Toshiba e-Studio3525AC printer/copier.

The test results are in!

Which do you think is the winner?

In terms of simple color and design, nothing beats Mac. However, in terms of useful information, including website printer location, Windows wins!

Santa Clause?

31 Jul 2023 Leave a comment

by CharlesB in Macintosh Tags: santa

This popped up on my screen after I updated the Mac to operating system Monterey something dot something. I have never seen this before, so I turned off screen sharing from system preferences.

Long time?

04 May 2022 Leave a comment

by CharlesB in Macintosh Tags: lion

Or short? The negative confuses me.

Stickies at Work

14 Apr 2022 Leave a comment

by CharlesB in Macintosh Tags: MacOS, stickies

This is what computer processing actually looks like

Mac Stickies Arranging by Content (alphabetically)

Letter-Like Symbols

08 Apr 2022 Leave a comment

by CharlesB in Macintosh Tags: symbols, wordwall.net

This is the second part in my series on things that look like letters, but are not quite letters. I am not talking about post cards. I am talking about letters of the alphabet.

MacOS has a short list of letterlike symbols, and wordwall.net has a larger list, which is alphabetical. (Or would be, if every element in their list was actually a letter, which is not the case.)

Which begs the question about why Apple curated their collection down to just 26 symbols and wordwall.net accepted everything, including non-English language letters which do not look like English letters.

MacOS Letterlike Symbols

MacOS Letterlike Symbols descriptions

Wordwall.net has alphabetized their letterlike symbols, which is kind of fun.

Wordwall.net letterlike symbols

What can you find in the wordwall.net symbols? I see a Hebrew alef, bet, gimmel and dalet, as well as a Greek sigma and pi.

Is that an upside-down ampersand?!

New Macintosh Craziness

02 Dec 2021 Leave a comment

by CharlesB in Macintosh Tags: Configuring System

I have never seen this Mac message before. It happened during some forced quits during an operating system installation. SO WEIRD! Google does NOT have this in its database!