I’ve just bought FixTunes, which is a piece of software to automagically fix all artwork, song names, album names, etc in iTunes. It works on a backend database which has been populated with tonnes of data. It really does seem to be amazing!
Anyway I recommend anyone buying it who needs to sort out their iTunes library. Ours has 7110 songs in it and I certainly didn’t want to manually go through and fix all the songs!
It can be tried for free as well – go grab it: http://www.fixtunes.com/
I bought the iLife update yesterday, the family pack so I can install it on up to 5 Macs at home. So far I am finding it really good. The new iPhoto is amazing – I really like the sorting by events and that it just knows what events are. It’s much more intuitive than the old “film roll” way of organising the library. I guess that’s the way it used to be done with film cameras, but “events” is a much better way of thinking about the different files in your library.
Anyway, well worth the money and I look forward to playing with iMovie to create a new movie showing photos and videos of the world tour!
Having come back from travelling and using my MacBook all over the world I decided it was time to give it some TLC and install the new version of Mac OS X on it. Well, Leopard is absolutely amazing.
I hadn’t ever installed a copy of Mac OS X because the only time I’ve dealt with setting it up has been on new Macs which come with it pre-installed. The installation was extremely smooth and I didn’t have any problems what-so-ever. I bought the family pack so it’s on my Dad’s iMac and my MacBook at the moment and I’ll install it on my Dad’s iBook and Helen’s Mac Mini soon.
The advantages of Mac over Microsoft really showed with Leopard. For a start, the price is amazing. I remember the days of Windows where a single license would cost around £150 and that was for the Home edition (read, crap edition). Leopard came with FIVE licenses (all for the same household) and cost a mere £129. I dread to think how much it would cost to upgrade a family’s PCs from Windows XP to Windows Vista. The second advantage was the installation process – absolutely perfect. The third advantage was that the upgrade works on every Mac hardware we own and that’s including some items from a few years ago. Vista hardly works on new hardware, let alone hardware that’s over a year old!
Anyway, that’s just my very quick review of the installation of Leopard, maybe I’ll write with some of my findings with Leopard soon.
[Can't wait to get an external hard drive and try out Time Machine!]
