I'd mentioned before that I got a Canon Scanoscan N650U a while ago (I think I got it around a year and a half ago). I was with my parents at the Apple store while they were buying their mac and asked the sales guy if the printer would work with OS X. He said it would. He was wrong. In fact he was so wrong that Canon is still only just barely supporting this printer in OS X. I checked back again to see if they had drivers for it and indeed they did. As I finished downloading them I started reading the documentation. The drivers they supplied, they only work with Photoshop. What the hell. Haven't they heard of things like TWAIN? My parents got an Epson scanner for Christmas and even though it didn't have full OS X support at least it had TWAIN support. Which meant I could use Image Capture (which comes with OS X).
So, I decided to check back into VueScan, a piece of software for OS X (and windows) that supports an insane number of scanners of all types (SCSI, USB, etc). I'd tried it once before when it supposedly first had support for the N650U, but it didn't work. This time. It did! I still feel a little weird spending any money on a scanner that was so cheap and should just work, but I've got a ton of pictures I really want to scan in. I have to say I'm really disappointed with Canon. I don't see why it takes that long to release a scanner driver.
So, I think I'm going to buy a copy of VueScan later this week and get to work scanning in a bunch of old pictures I have. I can then archive them off to CD so that I can have easier access to them on the computer.
Now, what I really need is a rendezvous enabled scanner. So I can drop something on the flatbed and go back to my laptop and do all the scanning from there. That would just plain rule.
