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Tip of the day: Reset Leopard's Printing System
Printer sharing not working on Leopard? Try resetting the print system; right-click the printer list in the Print & Fax pane of System Preferences. This will wipe out your configured printers and let you start over.Here's the contextual menu. You can get a shortcut to the reset button by option-clicking the 'minus' button.Here's what the dialog box looks like. Note that it will, in fact, delete all your existing printer queues and jobs, so don't use this nuclear option unless you're having ongoing problems with printer usage or sharing.Want more tips and tricks like this? Visit TUAW's Mac 101 section today!
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In OS X applications such as iChat where you can select a photo to use as an avatar, you can rotate the image in addition to resizing it or selecting a specific area to use in the picture-selection window. Rotate the image by holding the option key while dragging the mouse.
