OK, I'm now going to take this blogging thing a bit more seriously and see what might come of it. I spent the last couple of days playing around with my school computer. I was offered a chance to put Apple's new OS on it (Leopard with lots of cool things), but I was concerned since I provide support for teachers at my school with Tiger, that it might be a problem. I read online (in a blog) that you might be able to run both.
Off I went to Fry's, purchased a 160GB portable drive to back up before I started and then dug in. I had a few problems, but the online resources were great and in a few hours, I was able to boot either Tiger or Leopard onto my laptop. Both seem to work ok and with a little optimiztion today, I was able to free up ~ 16GB of space for data files on my puny little 60GB hard drive. Not bad, all my applications including iLife, iWork, Office, all the apps the kids use, a school photo library, some background music for school projects and all my presentations and documents PLUS 2 operating systems all on one 60 GB drive.
If anyone wants to see a video of what my desktop looks like now, here it is - just click the play button when it opens. The desktop is amazingly clean for me; fyi, the reference in the video to Stacy is one of the teachers at school who always gives me a bad time with how cluttered my desktop is.
Tomorrow, I think I will blog a bit about some of the cool new computer tools I learned in the last couple of weeks. Next week, I'm off to fly myself to Duluth, so there will be lots to talk about.
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You HAVE to admit - the cleaner desktop just FEELS better, right??
ReplyDeleteHi again! I love this blog you have set up. FYI, the clean desktop video keeps skipping and doesn't work continuously. Not sure if it was my computer...you might want to check it out! Have a great time in Duluth. Fly safely and have fun!
ReplyDeleteIt does feel nice to see a clean desktop in the morning. Now I'll have to work on my old PC to clean it up.
ReplyDeleteThe movie is a bit big and if your internet connection is a bit slow, you might have to just pause it and let it finish downloading to have it play smoothly.
ReplyDeleteOK I will try again. I am amazed by the look of your desktop -- can't be Stuart's!
ReplyDeleteIt is good I have my own personal tech guy because I am feeling way behind!
It brings a tear to your younger brothers eye watching you work on a Mac. I like the stacked folders, very cool.
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