Mac Miscellany

[legalmoose]

First, which one of these LJ clients do y'all recommend for Mac OSX? 'Cause homey is not going to play with typing all this mess into the web site each time.

I've gotten the iBook set up, most of my mail accounts are set up now (I think I remembered them all...), and I managed to find the iBook on the network via my PC so I am copying my iTunes music over as we speak. I suspect, given the glacially slow progress of the status bar on the copying (it's gone up about 3 tics in not quite 2 hours of copying - eeck!) that the copying will take all night. Fun. At least it can be doing that while I sleep.

Got my phone's address book transferred over via Bluetooth. Am so looking forward to having one master Address book and not a different one for each device. Yes I'll have 10,000,000 addresses in my phone, but that's what the lookup feature is for.

Still getting used to little things like CTRL+arrow key going to the end of the row, not the end of the word (alt/option+arrow key does that). Overall a smooth transition. Once the music is copied I think I'll hold off on the other stuff like photos and the like until I have more time to play on the machine tomorrow. Going to get a copy of The Missing Sync so I can get the Palm info integrated into the native OS X applications rather than the Palm desktop, and I think I can bring my Pocket Quicken over with me to the Mac. We'll see tomorrow how and if that works.

In the meantime, I think it's bed time. Night!

Comments

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[pylduck.livejournal.com]

Yay iBook! I use iJournal. http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/internet_utilities/ijournal.html

Haven't really used others, but iJournal works great for me.

[jss]

iJournal and Xjournal are the two biggest OS X clients, from what I've seen. LiveJournal's MacOS Download Page lists the common popular clients. Personally, I still prefer the web interface (and if it's a big entry, I clean it up in vi — the Unix visual editor — first), though.

Speed of copying depends on how you're doing it. Are you using, e.g., something like scp or sftp, which encrypts before sending? Or FTP, which opens a new network connection between devices for each file? Or a straight copy as if you're using networked file systems a la NFS or CIFS/Samba? Are you entirely wireless (and if so, 802.11b (11Mbps, Airport) or 802.11g (54Mbps, Airport Extreme)), or wired (10MBps, 100MBps? hub/bridged, or switched?)? Or iRDA or Bluetooth? (I know, "Gesundheit.")

Some other key sequences that may come in handy are [Command]-[Up Arrow] for "Jump to beginning of text box" and [Command]-[Down Arrow] for "Jump to end of text box."

[legalmoose]

Copying via the network, from a wired PC (10MBps card, wired directly into the Airport Extreme hub via ancient ethernet card) to the wireless iBook (an 802.11g wireless connection), so the slowdown is likely the PC's connection to the network. Whee. In any case, it's going to take all night. :-)

Hell, I'm just happy I don't have to spend all day burning CDs and transfering files manually!

[jss]

Yep, the 10Mbps card on the PC is the limiting pipe here.

(I use 802.11b at home, 11Mbps, through a 10Mbps hub. One of these years I should go to 100Mbps for the wired network.)

[legalmoose]

Yeah, well, not worth upgrading the card at this point. ;-p

But hey, I'm up to 4 tics on the status bar now. *grin*

[jss]

Rah!

[topherwd.livejournal.com]

I use iJournal. It's pretty stable. However, I downloaded Xjournal yesterday. It has some pretty cool features.

[incostantemoto.livejournal.com]

When I first had my Mac, I used iJournal, but I highly prefer xJournal.. I can't really give reasons, but I remember iJournal having less features, I believe, and xJournal being cooler looking and just a better program.

[deejayqueue.livejournal.com]

xjournal is the way to go. it has more features and doesn't lose posts like ijournal did. also it's completely osx native, not something that was around in os9 that got rewritten.

be careful with the missing sync, chris had a lot of problems when he installed it on his machine, but he had a clie and not an actual palm device so that may have been the problem.

oh, and Welcome to the Wonderful World of Real Computing.

[dipdewdog.livejournal.com]

make sure you get desktop manager, it's the best thing EVAR.

http://wsmanager.sourceforge.net/