21 June, 2007 – 10:54 am
As my current contract with Telstra comes to a close, test summary reports are signed off and my brain approaches shutdown mode in preparation for a 5 week holiday, I decided to give my Mac Book Pro a much needed crash diet.
Like owner like macbook, this beast was getting a little pudgy around the middle, so I decided to axe the following:
GarageBand. Well, I’ve finally convinced myself that I really don’t want to be that bedroom DJ producer, so this was the first thing to be given the arse. Look for the bulky demo files in Application Support and you can save 2.0GB+ of space. Deleted.
AppleSoundLoops. I mean really, who needs that extra 1.9+GB of apple sound loops also provided courtesy of GarageBand. Deleted.
iTunes. Yeah I know, how could I? Well the fact is I’m starting to think iTunes sucks. I don’t use ITM (who wants to pay for crappy 128 bit rates?) and I hate having to store all of my songs on my laptop AND on my ipod. I just wanna store them on the ipod and be done with it. So deleted the iTunes library on the laptop and am now running with yet another ipod manager [yamipod]
Backups To keep things organised, I’m continuing to use iBackup which essentially uses rsync to keep my laptop and spare usb drive in sync with a simple gui. At the end of the day, another 30.0GB+ saved and I can now go nuts with virtual machines on parallels.
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Update: I am now using Floola which is a yamipod look-a-like but I found it to be a bit more stable than yamipod when managing old generation and new generation iPods …
By Tim on Jul 27, 2007