it must be the madness

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? ;)