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Getting Your Computer’s Name Back, Alphabetizing Bookmarks and Finding a Scanner Program

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Getting Your Computer's Name Back, Alphabetizing Bookmarks and Finding a Scanner Program

By: Chuck Konfrst
Categories: My First Mac Q&A

Welcome to My First Mac's Q&A column. It is said that Macs are easier to use, but they are still complex in their own right. Here are a few questions we have received lately from readers like you. Sometimes we reformat the questions for clarity and presentation.

This week Chuck answers your questions about getting your computer's name back, alphabetizing bookmarks and finding a scanner program.

		I just recently recovered from something that happened to my Mac and now lost my computer's "name" - the one that shows on the log-in screen. How do I get it back?

		Well, assuming there are not more severe problems, you should be able to go into the "Sharing" System Preference and update the "Computer Name" field to whatever you'd like it to be. If that doesn't work, you might have more severe problems.

		How do I alphabetize bookmarks in Firefox? How about in Safari?

		In Firefox, select a folder full of bookmarks in the left pane of the Bookmarks Manager window. The right pane will fill with that folder's contents. If you want to sort all the items in the right pane by name, just Control-click on an item in the right pane and choose Sort By Name. Firefox will first organize folders alphabetically, and then follow those folders with the bookmarks. Safari is not as straight-forward as it is for FireFox. Select "Show All Bookmarks" from the Bookmarks menu. In Finder, create a new folder. You can then drag a folder of bookmarks to the new folder in Finder. Sort the Bookmarks by name and drag the folder back to Safari. For the Bookmarks to stay in alphabetical order, you cannot drag a list of bookmarks but the folder containing those Bookmarks. You might end up with a duplicate folder, but it is easy to delete it.

		I love my new Mac, but I'm having trouble finding a good scanner program. Any suggestions?

		The most popular scanning programs for Mac are SilverFast ($49/$74) and VueScan ($39.95/$79.95).

You can send in your questions via the Contact page or email us at editor[AT]myfirstmac[DOT]com. Because of the volume of email we receive, we can't reply to each and every question personally. We read each question that comes in and reply to the ones that fit the scope of this column. We also save some questions for future columns.

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Before you buy anything, you should try the built-in "Image Capture.app" It works with most scanners I think. At work we had some commercial product, but everyone prefers Image Capture. And its free.

jeff
01/31/2009 at 05:54 AM