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Per pigoo3's suggestion I got a used MBP 13 …
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<blockquote data-quote="Doug b" data-source="post: 1173882" data-attributes="member: 59143"><p>Great idea on the external HD. I personally find Time Machine to be a bit redundant for my uses, but many others have valid reasons for using it. I've never heard a really compelling reason to use Time Machine, because I keep all of my truly important files on an external HD. Exclusively. Music, photos and whatever important video documentation I have is all external, and redundantly so. </p><p></p><p>I also figure that if something is that screwed up, to the point of where fixing permissions isn't going to fix it, that must mean something is utterly corrupted and Time Machine is only a temporary fix, and a waiting game until the next thing gets messed up. But hey, that's just me and my logic. </p><p></p><p></p><p>Let's move onward. You want free software. Ok, for what? What do you want or need to do? Free is great, but not always the best solution. </p><p></p><p>I personally do not use iTunes. Never liked it one bit. I don't like iTunes, iPhoto and not too sure about Aperture 3 at this point, but giving it a whirl (again) for professional reasons, though I'll never give up Lightroom. </p><p></p><p>For a media player, I love <a href="http://getsongbird.com/" target="_blank">Songbird</a> Though you won't find iPod or iPhone support for it. This is Apple's doing, not the SB dev's. Apple doesn't like to share, apparently, and this is one reason I can't fully support Apple's overall motives in the industry. </p><p></p><p>Though I have no personal reason to use another piece of photo editing/viewing software beyond OS X's Preview app or Adobe's Lightroom 3, I can see where others might. So I always recommend Google Picasa over iPhoto. I don't like iPhoto for the simple reason that it creates redundant files (the end result is a huge iPhoto library file taking up HD space) without the users permission. It's unnecessary to me, but is something I don't see Apple changing about iPhoto. Just a hog of a database structure IMO. </p><p></p><p>There's a thread in the forum somewhere that was recently created, dealing with good free Apple software. Let's see if we can't find it, rather than creating another thread like it here. So that's it for now. </p><p></p><p>Oh, and as for the other $100.. I have another suggestion. How about a nice gift for your wife? Would probably go a long way, after spending all that money. </p><p></p><p>Doug</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Doug b, post: 1173882, member: 59143"] Great idea on the external HD. I personally find Time Machine to be a bit redundant for my uses, but many others have valid reasons for using it. I've never heard a really compelling reason to use Time Machine, because I keep all of my truly important files on an external HD. Exclusively. Music, photos and whatever important video documentation I have is all external, and redundantly so. I also figure that if something is that screwed up, to the point of where fixing permissions isn't going to fix it, that must mean something is utterly corrupted and Time Machine is only a temporary fix, and a waiting game until the next thing gets messed up. But hey, that's just me and my logic. Let's move onward. You want free software. Ok, for what? What do you want or need to do? Free is great, but not always the best solution. I personally do not use iTunes. Never liked it one bit. I don't like iTunes, iPhoto and not too sure about Aperture 3 at this point, but giving it a whirl (again) for professional reasons, though I'll never give up Lightroom. For a media player, I love [URL="http://getsongbird.com/"]Songbird[/URL] Though you won't find iPod or iPhone support for it. This is Apple's doing, not the SB dev's. Apple doesn't like to share, apparently, and this is one reason I can't fully support Apple's overall motives in the industry. Though I have no personal reason to use another piece of photo editing/viewing software beyond OS X's Preview app or Adobe's Lightroom 3, I can see where others might. So I always recommend Google Picasa over iPhoto. I don't like iPhoto for the simple reason that it creates redundant files (the end result is a huge iPhoto library file taking up HD space) without the users permission. It's unnecessary to me, but is something I don't see Apple changing about iPhoto. Just a hog of a database structure IMO. There's a thread in the forum somewhere that was recently created, dealing with good free Apple software. Let's see if we can't find it, rather than creating another thread like it here. So that's it for now. Oh, and as for the other $100.. I have another suggestion. How about a nice gift for your wife? Would probably go a long way, after spending all that money. Doug [/QUOTE]
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