I live a dual life: I work on a Windows PC and I play on a Mac.
What I mean is that at work, I am forced to use a Windows PC. Well, it’s not so bad any more because I’m really addicted to Lifeblog (natch). But, at home, we are all-Mac (3) and the main jukebox is our trusty iMac that all of us fight for to use iTunes (and browse and watch DVDs and play with Garageband).
Yes, our whole music collection is actually on the iMac (and our whole photo collection until I got Lifeblog). I’d never consider to actually use my Windows PC for iTunes, since it seems crude, the speakers stink, and when I am on the Windows PC I am working and really don’t like to listen to music when I work (I need to write a lot) – that’s why I really don’t have any music in iTunes on my Windows PC.
Do you see what I’m leading to? I mentioned before that I’ve got all my Lifeblog images transferring onto the iPod photo. Alas, I had to give the iPod up, since it really wasn’t mine. But, I managed to get it back to play with it some more and when I noticed some interesting behaviour.
To recap, when I went to put my stuff back on the iPod, iTunes asked me, separately, if I wanted to put my iTunes music and my photos on the iPod and delete what was already on it. When I realized that I could say ‘No’ to one and ‘Yes’ to the other, I decided to see if the same applied to my Mac.
To make a short story shorter, I hooked up the iPod to the Mac, said ‘Yes’ to transfer all the music to the device, said ‘No’ to transfer all the photos (already transferred for the most part to my Lifeblog). Then, I went to my PC and said ‘No’ to transfer the music, and ‘Yes’ to transfer the photos.
It worked.
Now I have my whole music collection from my Mac and my whole image collection from my Lifeblog on my iPod photo.
Cool.
I am sure I could work it somehow to not ask every time, but I don’t have the interest right now, since the dialog boxes don’t bother me. Yet.
Also, I still need to understand how the iPod photo updates the photos on it.
HI There – Like the blog and what you are doing!
Just got LifeBlog working on my 6630 posting to flickr – cool! Just one thing – any chance us Mac owners will get some software? Maybe a standalone app or an iPhoto Plugin?
It seems to me that a much higher proportion of bloggers have Macs than the general populous, so it would make sense to support the Mac people in the whole LifeBlog vibe. What u think ?
– Steve ( dedicated Mac + Nokia user ) 🙂
sigh.
steve, i only use a pc because of lifeblog, but would drop it in an instant if lifeblog ran on a mac.
right now, we hve enough on our plate. but, as an exercise, we try to figure out ways to port lifeblog to the mac.
some day, one of those ideas will stick.
😉
tchau,
charlie
are you still interested in porting lifeblog to the mac?