1. Unpack the printer.
2. Follow the first-run instructions that come with the printer. This involves removing a whole lot of orange plastic.
3. Plug in the USB and electric cables. Plug the other end of the USB cable into your Mac.
4. Turn the printer on.
5. Download the HP drivers for Mac OS X Lion (10.4) here at HP.
6. Install said drivers. At the end of the installation a firmware update for the printer will ask to be installed. Don’t. Exit that screen and let the rest of the drivers continue installing.
7. Go to: (Apple logo ->) System Preferences -> Printers & Scanners -> + (add printer) -> Select HP.…. -> Use: HP drivers -> Add.
8. (Maybe reboot)
9. Go to: (Apple logo ->) Software Update. It should now show the app store and an update available for your newly installed HP printer drivers. Click install.
10. (Maybe install the newest firmware for your printer. Download the firmware here at HP.)
11. Now you can enable Wifi on your printer, which allows you to print wirelessly, also from your iOS devices via AirPrint. To do that, follow the instructions in this YouTube video from HP:
    
12. (If you have trouble with this last step, maybe try going to http://localhost:5050/SSI/Auth/ip_wireless.htm directly in your browser.
13. That’s it!

How to install HP LaserJet Pro P1102w printer on Mac OS X Mavericks originally appeared on Candy by James on 25 July 2014.

This wallpaper is also available for your HD mobile screen!

Down­load for your desktop:

• Jason Brooks — Fierce Angel 2006 1024×768
• Jason Brooks — Fierce Angel 2006 1440×900 (widescreen)

Download for your mobile:

• Jason Brooks — Fierce Angel 2006 Mobile HD Wallpaper (640×960)

Enjoy!

Jason Brooks for Fierce Angel — Thunder Disco Angel 2006 originally appeared on Candy by James on 31 May 2012.

This is a robustness test. What happens if some font variants don’t load? What if there’s only one variant to begin with? Will information be lost? Those questions can be answered with this test.

Here’s the results of how browsers in 2012 render the test case, compared to the reference rendering. Mobile browsers have been added too.

Can the browser pick up the style natively?

How are mobile browsers with native variants?

Conclusion: Many browsers (Chrome, Opera) have made tremendous progress. Only Safari is still lacking in its implementation, in the edge case where Small-Caps text has added emphasis. IE 10 goes the curious route of emulating all variants and styles from the regular version.

Can the browser emulate from the regular version?

Do mobile browsers emulate properly?

Conclusion: Safari and most mobile browsers still fall back to regular style. This means web developers can not use web fonts for body text if they have only one (regular) variant natively available to them.

The most up to date support table, with pretty colours, can always be found on its own page alongside the test case. It also has more notes on ligatures and small-caps support.

Why is falling back to regular style so bad?

It makes sentences full of expression look like sentences full of expression. It removes part of the typographical elements of a text, which is ironic, given that @font-face is meant to embellish it typographically. At its core, falling back to regular style removes information.

So what does this mean we should do?

Browser developers:

• Safari devs: please work on emulating bold, italic, bold-italic, etc. when they’re not present. Browsers do this already when it comes to system-fonts, which means web developers expect this to work.
• Also give some thought to picking up “font-variant:small-caps;” in your @font-face code. It’s the only way to ensure proper fall-back. Emulating, (like Firefox & Opera you all now do!) is a step forward, but it’d be a pity to stop there.
• If HTML 5 has taught us anything, it’s that browsers should be more bulletproof, not web designer’s code. Also: asking web developers to specify as little as possible is a better.

Web designers:

• Using @font-face when you only have the regular version of a font at your disposal is not a good idea. Especially for body text. In safari. And on nearly all mobile platforms.
• Using a (less lazy, less practical) more bulletproof way of specifying your @font-face fonts is recommended (alas) for now.

CSS3 @font-face browser support table 2012 originally appeared on Candy by James on 30 May 2012.

El Cee was kind enough to inform me that The Mix: Summer 2009 Wallpaper worked really well on his Samsung Galaxy Note, which is really great! If you’ve got an action shot of one of my wallpapers in action, don’t hesitate to send it in!*

* You can contact me via Twitter :)

Jason Brooks in the Wild! originally appeared on Candy by James on 21 May 2012.

The illustration is from the Hed Kandi Disco Heaven 2011 cd cover. It features some great house music and is available directly from Hed Kandi or from Amazon. The illustration itself is also available on canvas from Hed Kandi themselves.

Here’s the preview of the full-screen desktop wallpaper (download links are below):

Here’s the first, cropped version for mobile screens:

Down­load for your desktop:

• Hed Kandi Disco Heaven 2011 (1600×1000 wide-screen)

And last — but not least — a download for your mobile:

• Hed Kandi Disco Heaven 2011 iPhone4 back­ground (640×960)

Jason Brooks for Hed Kandi — Disco Heaven 2011 originally appeared on Candy by James on 19 March 2012.

Here’s the preview of the full-screen desktop wallpaper (download links are below):

Here’s the cropped version for mobile screens:

Down­load for your desktop:

• Hed Kandi The Mix: 50 (1600×1000 wide-screen)

And last — but not least — a download for your mobile:

• Hed Kandi The Mix: 50 iPhone4 back­ground (640×960)

Jason Brooks for Hed Kandi — Mix 50: The Pink Wallpaper originally appeared on Candy by James on 15 March 2012.

Here’s the preview of the full-screen desktop wallpaper (download links are below):

And here’s a cropped version for mobile screens:

Down­load for your desktop:

• Hed Kandi Disco Heaven 2010 (1600×1000 wide-screen)

And last — but not least — a download for your mobile:

• Hed Kandi Disco Heaven 2010 iPhone4 back­ground (640×960)

Jason Brooks for Hed Kandi — Disco Heaven 2010 originally appeared on Candy by James on 9 March 2012.

Here’s the preview of the mobile wallpaper:

Down­load for your mobile:

• Hed Kandi Serve Chilled 79 Tennis iPhone4 back­ground (640×960)

Jason Brooks for Hed Kandi — Serve Chilled 79: The Tennis Wallpaper originally appeared on Candy by James on 5 March 2012.

I’ve created a bit more space up top to keep wallpaper from being too ‘in your face’ and overpowering on your desktop. This matches the blue colours, which are nice and muted.

Here’s the full-screen desktop preview:

The mobile wallpaper preview:

Several sizes are avail­able for down­load for your desktop:

• Hed Kandi Back to love 26 1024×768 square-­screen
• Hed Kandi Back to love 26 1440×900 wide-screen
• Hed Kandi Back to love 26 1600×1000 wide-screen

And last — but not least — a download for your mobile:

• Hed Kandi Back to love 26 iPhone4 back­ground (640×960)

Jason Brooks for Hed Kandi — Back to love 26 originally appeared on Candy by James on 14 December 2011.

The album this illustration is for is available from Hed Kandi directly and also from Amazon. (Both shops also have digital offers — but you don’t get the physical album cover with them of course!) You can also order the artwork on canvas, directly from Hed Kandi.

Here’s the preview of the full-screen desktop wallpaper (download links are below):

Here’s the first, cropped version for mobile screens:

And this is the non-cropped, full illustration mobile version:

Several sizes are avail­able for down­load for your desktop:

• Hed Kandi The Mix: Summer 2009 1024×768 square-­screen
• Hed Kandi The Mix: Summer 2009 1440×900 wide-screen
• Hed Kandi The Mix: Summer 2009 1600×1000 wide-screen

And last — but not least — a download for your mobile:

• Hed Kandi The Mix: Summer 2009 iPhone4 back­ground (640×960) (cropped flavour)
• Hed Kandi The Mix: Summer 2009 iPhone4 back­ground (640×960) (full flavour)

Jason Brooks for Hed Kandi — The Mix: Summer 2009 Wallpaper originally appeared on Candy by James on 12 December 2011.

Adapting this illustration for wallpaper use took a bit longer than the others, as I had to clear away the background very carefully, as well as having to fill in some missing bits, from taking out the lens flares. The loose hair was by far the most difficult. I imagine taking care of a real long mane like that is, while still quite involving, a lot easier! Here’s the preview of the mobile wallpaper:

Several sizes are avail­able for down­load for your desktop:

• Hed Kandi Twisted Disco 2009 1024×768 square-­screen
• Hed Kandi Twisted Disco 2009 1440×900 wide-screen
• Hed Kandi Twisted Disco 2009 1600×1000 wide-screen

And last — but not least — a download for your mobile:

• Hed Kandi Twisted Disco 2009 iPhone4 back­ground (640×960)

Jason Brooks for Hed Kandi — Twisted Disco 2009 Wallpaper originally appeared on Candy by James on 11 December 2011.

In fact, the music style known as Acid House apparently celebrated it’s 20th birthday in 2008. Hed Kandi releases its Acid House albums under the Back to Love label. The Hed Kandi album to celebrate, the Back to Love Anniversary Edition is available from Hed Kandi, and has a very nice cover, but this wallpaper is based on the cover of the 2003 album Hed Kandi 32: Back to Love and it is still available too (from Amazon).

Above you see the wide-screen version and as always, a specially cropped vertical version is available for mobile. It’s at high definition 640x960 resolution, to look as crisp as possible!

Several sizes are avail­able for down­load for your desktop:

• Hed Kandi Back to Love 1024×768 square-­screen
• Hed Kandi Back to Love 1440×900 wide-screen
• Hed Kandi Back to Love 1600×1000 wide-screen

And last — but not least — a download for your mobile:

• Hed Kandi Back to Love iPhone4 back­ground (640×960)

Jason Brooks for Hed Kandi — Back to Love Wallpaper originally appeared on Candy by James on 11 February 2011.

Jason Brooks did a great job on this Pure Kandi cover. The subtle gradient made it harder to extend the image for use as a wallpaper, but it adds so much that I couldn’t leave it out. The square-screen and wide-screen are cropped only slightly differently this time around, as the composition lends itself quite well to both shapes.

And for our mobile friends we have, not one, but two specially cropped vertical versions! They both have a high definition 640x960 resolution, so it’ll look nice and crisp on your mobile!

(Version 1 is on the left, version 2 on the right.)

Several sizes are avail­able for down­load for your desktop:

• Pure Kandi 1024×768 square-­screen
• Pure Kandi 1440×900 wide-screen
• Pure Kandi 1600×1000 wide-screen

And last — but not least — a download for your mobile:

• Pure Kandi iPhone4 back­ground (640×960) version 1
• Pure Kandi iPhone4 back­ground (640×960) version 2

Jason Brooks for Hed Kandi — Pure Kandi Wallpaper originally appeared on Candy by James on 4 February 2011.

Fashion illustration is actually where Jason Brook started off in, working for Vogue and The Independent, before doing the music related illustrations we all know him from. This piece for Chanel ought to be fairly recent, 2010 I believe. I like the strong lines and almost neon-sign like quality of coloured lines on the black.

This wallpaper comes in wide-screen, square-screen and, for our mobile friends, we have a specially cropped vertical version. It’s at a high 640x960 resolution, so it’ll look nice and crisp on your mobile!

Several sizes are avail­able for down­load for your desktop:

• Jason Brooks Chanel Black 1024×768 square-­screen
• Jason Brooks Chanel Black 1440×900 wide-screen
• Jason Brooks Chanel Black 1600×1000 wide-screen

And last — but not least — a download for your mobile:

• Jason Brooks Chanel Black iPhone4 back­ground (640×960)

Jason Brooks for Chanel — The Black Wallpaper originally appeared on Candy by James on 30 January 2011.