MAC Stuff

Well I have been upgrading my Macs like crazy. I put 1 G of Ram in my Ti book. the poor little 160 drive was bumping out to the edge, so I thought I'd try a thing called "Drive Genius" which includes a slim drive function. Well...if you don't know what the hell you're slimming...it is not good. Suffice it to say I recovered 40 G of space from my 250 in my G5, but totally screwed the 160. Good thing I had everything backed up to the nth degree!. It would mount to the point I got a screen, but nothing else. So I decided to put Leopard on it and erase it. It is amazing how much SHIT accumulates on a hard drive that aren't necessary. Steve at Westworld said he reformats his at least once a year to get rid of it. So I thought I would pair down my mp3's and photos etc. Well I ended up with 22 GB free now. So I guess it was worth it. I was told not to import that data directly or it would import all the crap...so I did that later. It was a bit of a challenge getting everything to work again. But seems to be working now. It doesn't allow you to pick and choose enough..so it was a challenge getting what I wanted. Seems to work now though.

I put a 1 TB drive on my G5 and now think I need to put another one in place of my baby 250. I have lots of externals kicking around though. It is amazing...it is like a garage...it fills up the space you have available. Unfortunately I need to find a 250 external that I can use when I get my NEW ONE. (Whenever that will be). Otherwise I'll run into the same problem. Then I can just clone the drive to my new one.

I love Leopard, it is working great!!! Filemaker 6 works but Photoshop 7 sure doesn't! Guess I'll need to get Elements, don't think I can afford the full version. Aperture is working great for RAW images, actually has a lot of editing properties in this program.
Now if Apple will only make a movie program that puts chapter markers on a DVD....how ridiculous that Imovie 8 doesn't do this!