{"id":777,"date":"2009-02-01T22:46:16","date_gmt":"2009-02-01T21:46:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=777"},"modified":"2010-01-29T21:59:19","modified_gmt":"2010-01-29T20:59:19","slug":"macifying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2009\/02\/01\/macifying\/","title":{"rendered":"Macifying"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nI&rsquo;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&rsquo;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&rsquo;t memorised anything, so without it I&rsquo;d have to look them up every single time.) Moving <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mozy.com\/\">Mozy<\/a> from a PC to a Mac was relatively straightforward, too.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nHowever I have concluded that NeoOffice is not an acceptable substitute for Office &ndash; 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&rsquo;m not going to buy another version of Office).\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAlso I&rsquo;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&rsquo;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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&rsquo;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&rsquo;s list of saved passwords moved as well, so I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[231,229],"class_list":["post-777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geeky_things","tag-apps","tag-mac"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=777"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1403,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777\/revisions\/1403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}