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Category: iPads and iPhones
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When you go to My Computer you usually see your iPhone as a camera. This allows you to browse the camera part of the phone and download or copy the images you want to your PC . When this happens a PC usually asks you in a dialogue box what you want to do with the pictures – eg. open with an image editing program or copy off and save images to your pc.
Well – sometimes the issue or problem arises where your iPhone doesn’t appear at all in “My Computer” and the dialogue for copying the pictures does not appear either. It is as if the phone part of the iPhone is no longer detected. This means the photos can not be accessed and downloaded.
Fortunately this is an easy fix.
[message_box title=”” color=”red”]The trouble stems from having a photo that was not taken by the iPhone camera or by an app on the phone. [/message_box]
In this case the phone had an image that was downloaded from a website in the Camera Roll. By deleting this image and plugging the iPhone out and in again, the iPhone appeared again as a camera in the computer.
So you’ve downloaded a webpage, an email or a PDF document from the internet on your iPad or iPhone and you want to print it out on your work or home 
printer. Of course it isn’t that easy and the printer usually doesn’t automatically appear when you hit print. At this point you may email it to your work or home pc or even put it in a DropBox (www.dropbox.com) . Wouldn’t it be better to be able to just print it directly.
Well now you can.
For only a few dollars you can purchase FingerPrint – a new tool for Windows and Mac computers that allows you to share via AirPrint your existing printers. Just install it on the computer that has the printer connected and as long as your Apple device is on the same network it will now be able to print to it. Some printers may be incompatible so FingerPrint offer a free trial where you can check it is going to work.
We tested it on a network and the local printers that were connected via USB worked fine but network printers shared by SMB did not appear in the program as an option. In this case you would want to run FingerPrint from the computer that was acting as the Print Server. FingerPrint also offers the added functionality of being able to send files directly to a dropbox account that you configure on your mac or pc or open the file directly on your mac or pc. Give it a try and see if it fits your needs.
FingerPrint is created by Collobos Software. Click here to download a Free Trial for Mac or Windows.
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