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Just a reminder on how to print to a Canon Pro9000 via an Airport Extreme or a Time Capsule. This is actually tricky. You have to download the generic Canon IJ Printer (http://www.usa.canon.com/consumer/controller?act=ModelInfoAct&fcategoryid=182&modelid=12892#DownloadDetailAct)

This has pretty tight requirements:

• Mac OS X v10.5.3
• Latest version of Airport firmware

• Pro9000osxcp10120ej7.dmg which is the 10.1.2.0 version driver.

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While I’m getting lost lense hoods and caps, I might as well get the remote control shutter release. It is a tiny 15g thingy that triggers the 400D, 350D or 300D (respectively the Digital Rebel XTi, Xt and original). It uses infrared from up to 5 meters and you can thread it on a [...]

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It was a terrible week in Wyoming, I ended up losing my 70-200 lens hood and the 17-55 lens hood as well as the viewfinder rubber piece for the camera. So it is insanely expensive to buy it:

Canon EW83J Lens Hood for Canon 17-55 F/2.8 EF-S IS USM. It is expensive but folks really tink [...]

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Try as I might, I can’t seem to get the Mac and Red River paper to work with my Canon i9900. It just all looks too red. Either I have to swap back to the PC. It all used to work find when I had an ASUS clone up there, so it is something to [...]

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