Learning is always a good thing, and that is after all, what most of our users are trying to accomplish.

New stuff will be posted this evening, thanks for your support and thanks for writing in.

The idea of this site is to start at the beginning, and work your way forward. We write these in an order with specific concepts in mind.

There has been some complaining that we should cover more advanced topics, and we will in time. First, we have to get people to understand the basics, before we can jump into something like Spaces, or Expose.

Some companies will skip a version, and go from say, version 2 to version 4, because they feel it is such a great update. In all reality, their version 4 should probably be more like version 2.2, but the marketing guys just do not like that

Wikipedia has a good article on Software Versioning.

But yeah, in general, it is up to the company, and Apple very well can do as they see fit, there is a nice list of all the versions they have released here.

After that, 10.4.11 etc, those are free updates.

For dialup, it can be a pain, you have a few options. We will cover software update in detail shortly.

1) You can download the updates from the Apple site on someone else’s computer, then install them as you would any other file.

2) If it is a laptop, you can simply bring that to some place with faster internet.

3) Yes, you can ignore some updates, such as those relating to iPod if you for example do not have an iPod. In general, update it all, as it is often hard to know what you need and do not need.

As far as updating to Leopard, my best suggestion is to backup your data. Once you have done that, no matter how bad things go, you can always install new, and put your data back on.

Also as I’m a DIAL-UP user, can you give me a tips about how to update software, etc. Should we do it at night? How do we overcome the fact that we want to survive in the tech world, but may not have the pocketbook to advance to faster connections? Can we CHOOSE what to update in software? What’s the most important? If I was to advance to Lepoard, what would I need to do before an install?

The idea is you come to the site, and you are presented with the newest post first. Were we to reverse that order, every time someone came to the site, after they read all the posts, they would have to jump through every page to get to the last page.

Once you get caught up, it works pretty well the way it is now. If you notice, on the first page, there is an intro, that explains how to get to the beginning, and start on the first page.

Welcome to OS X help. If you are new to the Macintosh, OS X, and Apple, you have come to the right place. If this is your first time here, we suggest you start at the beginning, and work your way to the current post, which you see below.

Thanks for the comment, I think once you get caught up, you will find it is valuable to have the site in the order it is in now.

If that is the case, then that is the cause of the problems with scanning and copying. Those kinds of features typically require that the multi-function device be connected directly to a computer, as the software that controls the scanning and copying is looking for the device to be connected directly to a USB port (or some other kind of port) and has no way of locating it over a network.

Of course, you could be using a Bluetooth connected printer, too. In that case, please disregard my comments.

The best idea, is that even if they say “Supports Mac”, is to research reviews on that printer model before buying. Some will barely support the Mac.

We will try to cover something about this in a future post, however, writing specific tutorials for every printer out there is not something we feel would benefit all our readers.

Even the post about video, is applicable, it will just take longer for you to download files and videos.

I will do my best to mention slow dialup cases, but for the most part, the tutorials should still be rather relevant.

I URI, is much like a URL, I don’t know why the software we use calls it a URI, technically it is a URL, which is nothing more than the address to get to a website. There are many other things that fall under the URI/URL category, and they are in fact different from each other, but for simplicities sake, just think of them as that address you see in Safari.