This is a nerdy note, but the more places it's published, the better. My scanner, the Canon D660U, a flatbed and film scanner, is finally supported under Mac OS X. I don't know how many of us there are that have been waiting for the drivers, but eventually this news will get out and people will be happier.
As of now, you have to go to the asian website to get the drivers, but they seem to work fine. There's no standalone version, so you have to have Photoshop (7.0 or Elements both work) or something else that can use Photoshop plugins.
This solves many problems for me and Lisa. No longer will she have to keep the old version of Photoshop (which only runs in MacOS Classic, the slower, memory-intensive emulation layer) on her machine just to drive our scanner for film scanning.
I just bought the basic version of Vuescan a few weeks ago, which I see now I didn't have to do. I don't really regret support Hamrick, though -- it's good software that runs on almost literally any computer. Its flatbed results are at least as good as the Canon drivers, and faster. The film results are nowhere near as good as Canon, though, so I'm especially glad to have these new drivers for that purpose.
While I'm being a nerd, I think this is cool.
After having a shitty, shitty day Thursday, today felt like a dream come true. We got some work done, discovered that Carly will chase a ball after all, and just generally felt better about things. This weekend will be spent in Michigan to further work on our wedding plans. The vows aren't set yet, but at least the music is. How often do you think people use Béla Fleck's music as the centerpiece in a ceremony?