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Software for my iMac

jeffself — Tue, 24 May 2011 15:22:19 +0000

With the new iMac 6 weeks from being delivered, I’m thinking about the software I’ll install. So here goes:

Aperture 3
Photoshop CS5
iLife ’11
iWork ’09 (unless ’11 comes out by then)
Chrome
Firefox 4
Final Cut Pro X (Currently have Final Cut Studio, but think I’ll sell it and buy it from the Mac App store)
Handbrake
VMware Fusion (still need to run Windows 7 and Linux occasionally)
Python 2.7 (don’t like touching the installed version. like to add packages here)
RVM (greatest thing ever invented for development. sandboxed ruby environment)

Hoping that OS X 10.7 will be shipping by then. I will still install from scratch however. I think since I’ll have two drives, I will have to partition the 2TB drive to hold the /Users directory.

2008 Recap

jeffself — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 02:10:03 +0000

Another year gone by. Good riddance, 2008. I lost my grandmother and father within a week of each other in October. When all the older members of your family are gone, you get a new perspective on life. I don’t have parents to lean on for advice anymore.

With the losses in my family the last few years, I am now on a mission to preserve as much history as possible. I am scanning negatives and photos and storing them in Aperture. I have a box full of 8mm film that I need to have converted. I’ve got a ton of geneology stuff that my mom had. I also have Digital 8 tapes of my own kids that I am converting to MPEG4 movies. I’m worried that my Sony Digital 8 camera is going to fail before I can get all these tapes migrated.

So this is my mission for 2009. How am I going to accomplish all this? I’ll blog about this in the future.

Vote for me

jeffself — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 15:56:53 +0000

I’ve entered a photography contest. More specifically, the Aperture Nature Photography Workshops contest. I learned about it on the MacBreak Weekly podcast.

Vote for my photo!vote