"Wizard of Woodstock" wrote in message
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On Thu, 22 Jan 2009 11:14:55 -0500, HK wrote:

Wizard of Woodstock wrote:
On Thu, 22 Jan 2009 08:14:17 -0500, HK wrote:

Wizard of Woodstock wrote:
On Thu, 22 Jan 2009 06:52:22 -0500, HK wrote:

I use Aperture when I need to.
One of the local pros has Aperture 2 and I had a chance to see it in
action a couple of weeks ago.

It's not bad, but I was surprised at how similar to Paint Shop Pro it
was.

It's also Mac centric - you have to have a mind that works in Mac with
respect to the work flow.

And I'll be honest - I've never understood the Mac way of doing
things.

I'm not familiar with paint shop pro, but I will take your word for the
similarities.

In 2001, when I started a new consulting contract with a client, the
client provided a workstation for me with a new Apple Mac laptop. For
whatever reasons, but probably nearly 20 years of working with PCs, I
simply could not fathom the damned thing. Just about everything on it
seem counter intuitive.

Sometime after that I started hanging out at the Mac store at the mall
when my wife dragged me along on shopping trips. I really got hooked on
Mac ergonomics and slowly...very slowly...I started learning a little
bit about a couple of Mac applications that were relevant for me.

After so many years of hanging out at the Apple stores, one of the
managers finally said, Hey...you ever gonna buy one? I bit the bullet
and sold off my IBM Thinkpad T23, a superior laptop for its time, and
bought an Apple Mac Pro about a year ago.

Well, I love the machine now and in the next couple of weeks, I will be
buying an Apple desktop.

You are right about the Mac way, though...a lot of it is still odd to
me.

Meanwhile, I have all sorts of PC stuff around to give away or sell...a
couple of DVD writing drives, one a lightscribe, 6 gigs of high speed
ram, a nice video card, a recent pentium CPU, a new internal dial up
modem...

What I am keeping from the PC world includes my HP mediasmart server,
which runs under Windows Server 2003, and which I use to backup
everything and to distribute movies and music, and the other server I
am
building out of my last desktop PC.

Mrs. Wave has a Mac laptop and one of the new Mac Pro something or
other - Quad core I think - standby.

Just looked in her office - it's a Mac Pro Quad Core she got for her
presentations and stuff she does for school.

I've never used it - I'm stuck in PC land forever. :)

She must be doing some heavy duty presentations...a Mac Pro Quad Core is
a very very fast computer.

A lot of video and slides and stuff like that. I don't pretend to
understand what she does - ony that she's very good at it.

She also uses it for school work - as something of a specialist
working with the less talented middle schoolers, she likes to keep
things interesting for the kids.

I dont' use the thing - I don't go near it, use it, turn it on or off
- it's all hers. :)

--

"Far better it is to dare mighty things,
to win glorious triumphs even though
checkered by failure, than to rank with
those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor
suffer much because they live in the gray
twilight that knows neither victory nor
defeat."

Theodore Roosevelt

Luddite married to non luddite?