Category Archives: Software

Why I left MobileMe and switched to Google Sync

Along with the upcoming articles on backing up files, hard drives and photo editing workflow, I thought I’d share some other daily workflow tips on how I keep everything in sync. I have never used an @mac.com or @me.com email address. Having a mac, and purchasing mobile me I was given an address but found mobileme’s website very slow and buggy. Not to mention how limiting their email options were. I’ve been using Gmail since 2005 and Google Apps in the last year and frankly, I didn’t need another email address and as I’ve written about it before, you really can’t beat Gmail’s interface or usage of filters and labels.

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Apple Announces Aperture 3

When I bought my first mac back in 2007, Aperture had already been out for almost a year and a half. I had just started playing around with Lightroom on my PC before the switch since I have been a long time Photoshop user but decided to use a trial version of Aperture to give it a shot. In all honesty, I couldn’t figure it out. Maybe it was my familiarity with Photoshop but Lightroom just made sense. I was able to navigate intuitively around Lightroom and with little searching, was able to find what I needed to edit my photos. Of course, a long the way, my workflow has developed into something far more complicated and advanced compared to how I previously used the software but I never really gave Aperture a chance after that. Over the years, I’ve opened it up occasionally, imported a photo and fooled around but I never really did much after that. That may change now…

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