We (or I) should like to know what applications you've found useful substitutes for Apple's. (I consider Apple's consistent OOUI very important.)
iPhoto I find useful for organization, fitting standard-sized photos onto letter paper, and its cute film canisters. However, I edit & organize the originals before dragging their 'shoot' folders to iPhoto.
Anything that grows forever, I archive onto optical media. This is mounted by *nix read-only, but otherwise similar to a hard disk. Mail is archived, each iMovie project goes on a labeled disc, &c. If needed, I use the freeware
DVD Spanner
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/32730
iPhoto's command line can use different libraries as arguments, as implemented very nicely in this freeware:
My iPhoto libraries are named '2009 spring', '2008 winter', &c, and the display of an early photo from each jogs my memory of which to use.
iPhoto 6 and above will use optical media, though how flexibly it does this only others know. Every application whose data grows indefinitely requires an archive, backup, and collection of optical discs to pop in when needed. I wish MacOSX itself had originally been designed to request an optical disc by name, when needed.
(This opinion you have already considered, I'm sure; but I offer it here, for a similar response to the same problem was censored by Apple on its Board.)
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Use of Optical Media - petrologist
We (or I) should like to know what applications you've found useful substitutes for Apple's. (I consider Apple's consistent OOUI very important.)iPhoto I find useful for organization, fitting standard-sized photos onto letter paper, and its cute film canisters. However, I edit & organize the originals before dragging their 'shoot' folders to iPhoto.
Anything that grows forever, I archive onto optical media. This is mounted by *nix read-only, but otherwise similar to a hard disk. Mail is archived, each iMovie project goes on a labeled disc, &c. If needed, I use the freeware
DVD Spanner
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/32730
iPhoto's command line can use different libraries as arguments, as implemented very nicely in this freeware:
iPhoto Buddy
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/20052
My iPhoto libraries are named '2009 spring', '2008 winter', &c, and the display of an early photo from each jogs my memory of which to use.
iPhoto 6 and above will use optical media, though how flexibly it does this only others know. Every application whose data grows indefinitely requires an archive, backup, and collection of optical discs to pop in when needed. I wish MacOSX itself had originally been designed to request an optical disc by name, when needed.
(This opinion you have already considered, I'm sure; but I offer it here, for a similar response to the same problem was censored by Apple on its Board.)
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