Fellow iBAM’er Ricky sent me a question concerning iWeb pages. I’m not an iWeb user so I thought this would be a great election into the Ask iBAM category. So here’s Ricky’s question:

Is there a way that i can receive comments on my web page that i created with iweb and my .mac account. I am wanting people to be able to communicate with me through there comments on my webpage if it is possible. you know like youtube lets you leave comments and then you can reply to the comments.

Thank you

Here’s my question: Does iWeb’s blog templates even support commenting? Off the bat, my thoughts are that there might be a difference in the functionality of an iWeb blog template versus a website template but I am not sure as I haven’t made one yet. Anyone out there have experience with these? Please enlighten us!

So… as you know, I have been feeding my del.icio.us links to the blog here for a few days now. Just so you know, I don’t intend on converting iBAM into a link list, so I will always continue my bantering posts as I find things interesting but, I’m curious about what you guys think. Have they been useful or are they annoying? Cast your vote via comments, I will listen! (and thanks in advance!)

Brent

Here’s another quickie for the “Ask iBAM” crew out there. This one’s from Bob and he’s trying to print on a shared windows printer from his Mac on his network. Here’s his question:

I’ve tried and tried and tried to print from my macbook through my network to a printer connected to a Windows desktop. It will find it and show it in the printer pane, but wont print to it. Maybe there is a program that simplifies this? Help if you can.

Thanks much,

Bob

I was under the impression that recent versions of OS X did this semi-effortlessly as long as you had Windows sharing turned on in the system prefs. Then all you need to do is browse for the printer and the OS does the rest. However, he seems to have further issues and I don’t have any way to test this so I’m going to rely on those of you out there with previous experience. Any advice for Bob? Post your comments here and as always, thanks in advance!

UPDATE: This issue has been resolved (read the comments)

I got this little issue that’s been bugging me for a while now (since about October)

I LOVE TWITTERRIFIC! However, ever since switching to Leopard, I haven’t been able to use it. It starts up just fine and runs well for a little bit. But once I close the window (leaving it running in the background), It freezes! It’s a weird freeze though. I can type in the entry box, nothing shows up, but a click of the mouse will update the window. This goes for everything! The window just stops updating until I click it. I can’t even bring up the prefs window without clicking the little wrench twice. It really is frustrating.

I have the latest version, I reinstalled several times and nothing! I have tried searching the internet several times to see if anyone else was having the same problem and come up dry. Is this only me or have any of you experienced this as well. What am I doing wrong?

I miss my twitterrific, will we ever be able to be together again?

Our pal James comes back with another “Ask iBAM” question for the masses. This time it’s about web design Mac apps. This should be a good hearty conversation starter. There’s a ton of apps out there and everyone has their fav’s. What’s your weapon of choice? Here’s James’ question:

Got another question for you and the iBAM readers. As I sent in earlier I am preparing to make the switch to a mac with a new 24″ iMac. I was mainly waiting for MacWorld just in case anything minor was announced for the iMac. I am a freelance web designer and developer right now and have been browsing apps for the Mac for what I do. I’m wanting to get the opinions of your readers on which ones would be the best to get. I’m not used to anything special as now I use Notepad++ for all coding and FileZilla for ftp. Some of the apps I’m currently looking at include CSSEdit, Transmit, Coda and YummyFTP. What are your opinions on these? Would Coda be the best route with the its editor and transmit or does CSSEdit have an advantage? Basically looking for the word of fellow web designers on what you like about each or prefer between them. I also used to do freelance video editing in the past but time hasn’t allowed me to in awhile but plan to get back into it. What apps are recommended or what apps do you guys use? Or is Final Cut the best/only choice? Thanks for the help. [Continued]