My 6th MacBook Report - Connecting the Camera

Have you ever had one of those days where you made a hard task out of an easy one? Well, that's what happened when I tried to get the MacBook set up to use with my Canon Powershot digital camera.

Since I plan on bringing my MacBook with me to the UK in September (did I mention that yet?), I figured it would be a good idea to get the Canon software installed so I could download photos from the camera to the Mac. I went looking for my software CD and could only find one for Windows. So I looked in all the other places for the Mac software CD - couldn't find it. No problem, I'll just download it off the Canon web site. Except all they had were upgrades to newer software versions. So I decide to call Canon. The nice support person explains that the Mac software I need is right on the CD that came with the camera. As I'm looking at the CD, it dawns on me - I had seen the label where it said 'for Windows' and completely ignored the rest of the label. On the left side of the disc was more writing that said 'for Mac'. Boy do I feel stupid.

Anyway, now that I enjoyed that brush with stupidity, I installed the Mac software, installed the update I got from the Canon site and voila - works very nicely.