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Well, I’ve been using iPhoto, Lightroom in it’s different beta stages and now I had a demo of Aperture. I’ve been shooting digital for quite some time now, and scanned lots of negatives from when I still shot film and my parents before me. My collection is about 35.000 pictures, spanned over many DVDs and CDs. Pictures that are virutally inaccessible because I don’t know where they are. So I decided a while back to throw them all into a harddrive and try out different programs.
First program I had to ditch was iPhoto. Even iPhoto 6 becomes unusable after about 5000 pictures. It’s just ghastly slow on my Macbook Pro 15″ 2,33Ghz Core 2 Duo with 2GB RAM. So that’s inexcusable.
Second program was Lightroom, after about 10.000 photos it was very slow. At 16.000 photos it grinded to a halt. Not even half way there. 
A shame, really, as I really liked Lightroom and had high hopes for it, I have now abandoned it.
I grabbed a demo of aperture, and hit a very convenient limit. Where Lightroom and iPhoto just died more and more, Aperture said:
Aperture has max 10000 pictures
Aperture projects are limited to 10000 master images each. You should create new projects and import your images in batches of less than 10000.
Quite convenient, really
So, what do I do now? Shooting mainly RAW I don’t suppose changing to F-Spot is much of an alternative, especially since it’s proved quite inaccessible on OS X. I guess I’ll have to talk with the crowd that uses iView Media Pro and see how it fares. Do you have any other recommendations?
I need Adium for Social Networks. Adium is an IM tool that has ‘em all and runs nicely under OS X. Social Networks are exploding. So I thought it would be fun to look for some of my friends, but after trying to find a few it hit me: there are so many networks. I would have to search each one of them. And what if they join tomorrow? I’d have to search again unless they search for me. I have an account at Orkut, Facebook, Blink and probably quite a few others. I usually don’t log in to them. So I would need something that searches for my friends in all of them when I search, and which could do that over again whenever I wish to check if they’ve showed up. Then I’d probably need some interface to keep my information on all of them up-to-date, and to be able to manage them one way or another. Any ideas for an Adium-like client for social networks?
Apr 032007
Apr 022007
A few times I’ve experienced that OS X’ Mail has just stopped downloading new messages via POP from GMail. I’ve been all around Google’s mail system to try to figure out why Mail and GMail all the sudden won’t co-operate anymore. Not having any luck there I began exploring and found a solution:
For the sake of example, my account will be called username@gmail.com
Go to ~/Library/Mail/POP-username@gmail.com@pop.gmail.com
In that folder there is a file called MessageUidsAlreadyDownloaded2. It’s an XML file that contains stamps of when what mail downloaded from GMail. Mine was about 45k large. I quit mail, moved this file away (just in case) and started Mail again. And voila! Mail is downloading mail from GMail via POP3S again. 
And it picked right up on where it left of.
Get it here