Upon the conclusion of every year, I find it integral to reflect upon the events that have transpired over the past 365 days. I have chosen to remember 2007 based upon the cultural facets that it defined for itself. I announced the categories nominees for my 2007 in review awards yesterday, and today I am proud to present the winners.
An asterisk (*) denotes a second-year winner; due to the fact that the award categories and their nominees have changed significantly over the past three years, there are no third-year winners.
See the winners after the break. Continue reading ‘2007 in Review - Winners!’
I’d give anything to rock with her. “Through The Glass Darkly” is my anthem right now. She’s my new obsession.
For the fourth year in a row, here it is: my “year-in-review” post. The format for this year is going to be a little different; I’m getting rid of the Greatest Ally/Enemy categories because they seemed to cause more harm than good. Where applicable, nominees are linked (a “#” denotes a link to a blog post about the nominee).
See the nominees after the break. Continue reading ‘2007 In Review’
According to Russel Shaw (and countless others), ripping CD’s is not the actual crime; storing the ripped tracks in shared folders on your hard drive is the offense. When I originally read that the RIAA opposed ripping CD’s to your hard drive, I, like every other person in the blogosophere, was in awe. This, however, makes sense. Shaw writes:
To put it more directly, storing your ripped MP3’s in, say, your “My Music” folder would be OK. But installing Kazaa, eDonkey, one of the torrents, or another P2P utility that can fish these files out and set them up for swapping is a bad bad thing.
So to stay out of harm’s way, don’t make infringing files “available.” Don’t install file-sharing software that can be triggered to exchange any infringing music files you have on your hard drive. If you have such software, delete it. And if you must continue to keep this software for whatever reason, disable its file-swapping capabilities. #
Better?
On Christmas, I found a copy of MacLife Magazine in my stocking, and this month’s issue had an article about optimizing your Mac and making it run more smoothly and quickly. It was actually a really interesting spread, and it motivated me to clean up my computer. I’ve spent the morning re-organizing my file hierarchy and getting rid of files/songs/movies/etc. that I know I’m never going to open again.
I’ve already gotten rid of almost 18GB 26GB of old stuff! The majority of it is old iMovie projects (I have all of my vlogs saved as iMovie documents, so I’m exporting them to .mov’s to save time…seriously, I’m never going to edit them again, so why keep around the raw stuff?), but it’s still an amazing accomplishment. I still want to purchase an external HD for all my music/photos (My iTunes library is almost 27GB, and my iPhoto library contains 8GB of photos) so that I can free up more space on the actual HD on the iMac, but I’m still broke from Christmas shopping/self-indulgence (I spent almost $100 at Old Navy buying clothes the week before Christmas…oops).
Here’s a link to the article…tips #6, 8, and 20 have so far been the most helpful. Oh, and regarding tip #18, why spend $30 to use iClip when you can use Jumpcut for free? ;)
Continue reading ‘Winter Cleaning’
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