Cross-platform, collaborative, versioned, web-accessible file and folder sharing. If this ends up being half as good as it looks, it could ultimately make my life a LOT easier.
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When I first got my MacBook Pro, I mentioned that one of my primary, first priorities was to figure out a good solution for running Windows on it. Now that its been a little over a month and I’ve had a chance to play around with multiple different options, I think I’ve finally landed on a very workable solution to my Mac + Windows needs:
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A while back my friend Jeremy told me about a little tool he used for importing music from his iPod into his iTunes library called Senuti. He mentioned it as a way of getting around iTunes content DRM issues. When you buy media from the iTunes store, the DRM it comes with will only allow you to transfer it a certain number of times before it disables it. Well, I’ve transferred my stuff enough times that I was beginning to worry that I might be getting close, and I had a need to transfer my stuff again, so I decided to take a look at Senuti.So, since I got my MacBook Pro, I’ve sort of put off the task of trying to get all of my media transferred to the new laptop. The idea of backing up my iTunes library on my old PC laptop, and then importing it all (over 15GB worth of data) over the network into my iTunes library on the new laptop just did not sound appealing at all. So then I remembered about Senuti, and how it would let me import everything directly from my iPod. My only question was whether or not it would have any issues with the fact that my iPod was formatted for Windows and not a Mac. According to the FAQ, there had never been any reported issues with this. Apparently it would work just fine with Windows formatted iPods. Sweet! So last night I gave it a shot. I was very pleased with the outcome.
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WARNING: What follows is a rant. If you don’t feel like listening to me complain about my problems with Windows Vista, you should probably just skip this one.
I’ve been using Windows Vista for…oohhh…I dunno, about a year now or so, something like that. The experience has been…uuummm…OK. There are some things about it that I like, and definitely some things about it that I don’t like. One thing that I will say for certain though, is that there is one thing that I don’t like about it SO much, that it may just end up being the deciding factor of whether or not I continue using Vista or not.
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So…my new toy arrived yesterday afternoon, and I got to play with it for the first time last night. Obviously, its too soon to gush too much, but I will say that, without a doubt, the out-of-box-experience was nice, and the first six hours with it were very nice…and maybe most importantly, stable. I was able to watch videos, listen to music, read documents…SCROLL…all without a single problem or crash. VERY refreshing indeed.
