Re: Mac Switch Questions

chrisnixon — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 03:41:09 -0000

Wow! Thanks guys for your comments. I really didn't expect such detailed responses.

It's very much appreciated.

Re: Mac Switch Questions

darmfield — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 23:23:56 -0000

I like Firefox better than Safari. I like syncing my bookmarks between my Mac and my tablet PC. Plus, I've found that Safari doesn't work as well for me on many things (although, I recently upgraded to Safari 3.0 beta and it seems better).

I use CS3 and love it. I liked Lightroom, too (but haven't shelled out the $$$ for it). It works for my workflow.

I just write straight to my blog so I can't help you with that. Sorry.

I just imported my songs. However, I did have to authenticate my external hard drives on my Mac BEFORE I did them on my PC in order for them to work on both platforms. Not sure why. But once I did, I could import my music and photos easily.

Dunno about the video question. I just pop a video in and it works. I have no clue about that.

Oy. Not sure this was much help. :-)

Re: Mac Switch Questions

nathanus — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 20:16:09 -0000

MarsEdit. It is extremely simple to set up and super intuitive. It is the best blogging software made for the mac. Don't mind the $29.95 price, it's worth every penny. Just add it to the software you will be buying for your new Mac.

I tried Photoshop CS3 a little bit when it came out, I didn't like it at all to be honest. It's so different from CS2, it's just ridiculous. I feel like it's Adobes way of being extremely pretentious. That's my humble opinion though, I'm sure others will swear by it. I, on the other hand edit all my photos with Adobe Lightroom. It's is much more intuitive, and so much straight forward then Photoshop. It's purely for editing and keeping your photos in one place. I would definitely use Lightroom over Apple's Aperture. You should try both of them, but I highly suggest Lightroom, it's just a much better platform and makes editing photos faster. You can tag all of your photos in Lightroom and they will stay when you upload to Zooomr. The only thing that you will have to change after uploading is the title of the photos. Which doesn't take long at all since Zooomr makes it so easy.

When you get your Mac, download (free) a program called Senuti (iTunes backwards) and you can copy all your files off of your iPod to your iTunes library and keep all of the ratings and everything blah blah blah. Or you could just transfer them to your Mac from your PC. It doesn't really matter which way you do it, the ratings and everything is imbedded in the file through iTunes. So it doesn't really matter where you put the tracks, the files contain the ratings and all the information.

My video player of choice is VLC. It's open source and works on all platforms. For the Mac, it's usually h.264 even though there is a divx player that is made for the Mac. I don't use it even though I have it. It cost money I somehow got it for free. Don't ask, I think they were giving free copies away or something. I haven't used it since.

I hope this answers all your questions, if it doesn't, feel free to email me.

Nathaniel Perales

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