I’ve spent the last few evenings moving all my stuff from the old PC to the shiny new Mac, which has generally gone more smoothly than I expected. Opera is up and running, with all my bookmarks and email and RSS archive. Today I got Opera’s list of saved passwords moved as well, so I can now blog again! (For almost all web sites I rely totally on Opera to remember my passwords, and haven’t memorised anything, so without it I’d have to look them up every single time.) Moving Mozy from a PC to a Mac was relatively straightforward, too.

However I have concluded that NeoOffice is not an acceptable substitute for Office – slow to start, spreadsheets look horrendously clunkily ugly, and it cannot deal with .mdb files. I guess I will need to install Office (which means installing a Windows VM, because I’m not going to buy another version of Office).

Also I’ve realised that using iPhoto, which people generally say good things about, for managing my photos is pretty much out of the question. It threw all my 8000 photos into a single bucket, keeping only one folder level, which meant it was almost impossible to work with the files. I’m going to take a closer look at Picasa and see if there are any other contenders out there. Absolute must-haves include working with my existing folder structure, and good tagging support.