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Ever since switching to Mac, the one thing that bothered me the most was the absence of the ‘print selection’ option in the print dialog box in Mac OS X . So every-time I want to print only the highlighted text from Safari or Mail.app, I simply cannot unless of-course I copy paste the selected text into some text editor and then print the whole damn thing. Aghhhh..painful

At first I really thought I was probably missing something. How can Apple forget to put that option up there, especially when Windows has had that option for ever? But unfortunatley, it turns out, there really is no built-in way to print selected text from an application on Mac OS X. So I set out to find a solution to this found it in this script.

It lets you select text and graphics in any cocoa application (safari, mail.app, etc.), go to the services menu and go to “Print Selection” and the selected stuff will be printed.

Hope Apple fixes that in the much awaited ‘Leopard’ though!

After using my MacBook for about 6 months and loading a bunch of crap during this period, I came across this problem that my MacBook would simply refuse to shutdown or restart. Clicking on the shutdown/restart menu would just cause the machine to get stuck at the blue screen. It would seem that the machine is shutting down - the dock would disappear and so would the status and the desktop icons but it would just stay at the blue-screen for ever forcing me to hold the power button for a few seconds and perform a cold reboot. I was surviving through it for a few weeks because I don’t normally shut it down everyday. I usually put it on hibernation. It was still however driving me insane. So I began searching for the fix.

I did a lot of googling and came across a few solutions but none of them helped my case. After a few days, I finally came across this post and found my solution in one of the comments.

The solution - Delete (or move onto the desktop) everything in the top-level /Library/StartpItems folder.

It worked like a charm. The startup items folder in my case had the following items -

• HP IO
• HP Trap Monitor
• MySQLCOM
• Parallels

To summarize, here’s what I did -
1. Copy the Startup items folder to your dektop (as a backup, you can delete this later if you want)
2. Delete the original startup items folder.
3. Confirm your root password
4. Restart the machine.
5. SUCCESS!
Please note that the Startup items folder would be created again upon restart which is normal.
Again this solution worked in my case, it may not help in every situation. But worth a try, especially when you are creating a backup of the startup items folder.