OS

Well it looks as though my story about OS X being dropped by Apple is one step closer ( http://trialsoftheswitch.com/apple-drops-os-x ) Reading about how Apple is going to release iPhoto for Windows, so this is the part where I say Apple is porting the whole iLife suit to Windows for a reason, reason being is OS X will fade away; read my article and see my thoughts.

I have just read about 100 different sites on people yapping about Apple pushing off the release date for their new OS for some months, I truely don’t mind too much, it would just be another OS I would have to buy bringing the total up around the $600 mark in OS and this is not to mention iLife upgrades.

In the last version of OS X they introduced a very useful feature for finding files and things called Spotlight, it allows you to quickly search the computer for about anything, it searches file names, folder names, applications, along with meta data of items.

Coming from a lifetime of Windows I have external hard drives laying around that I thought I’d use for extra storage on my imac via USB, well I had a ton of Music MP3’s that I ripped directly from CD’s, so I took the drive and plugged it the USB port and viola the drive mounted on the desktop and I was able to play the music, I changed the location in iTunes of where the library get stored (so it didn’t try and move all the files onto the local drive.

Well once again I find Apple has backed me into a corner on an application I really love. I originally bought a “Slingbox” and didn’t care for it at all, as a matter of fact it hardly worked… So after searching around a little I found an application for my PC called “Orb” you run an orb server on your machine and you can do all kinds of things such as I am able to watch all of my Tivo recorded and saved programs from anywhere in the world even on the mac, I have used it for a pilot friend of mine so he can watch Motorcycle races when he is stuck in places like China.

Well… coming from the windows world installing a program is quite a bit different (sometimes) Talking with my mac Guru friend he talks about windows installs requiring too much user interaction… I’ll give him some of that, most programs require you to say yes a few times… only where it allows you to pick some options or install directories….