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In cleaning my house, I just discovered a whole slew of 2003 Paris photos, all on film. The B&W ones I need to find a negative scanner. The color ones I got a CD of when I had them developed, so they're going up on my Flickr account. Someone prod me if I don't remember to feature some of the good ones here. Meanwhile, sadly, my pro Flickr account is to expire at the end of the week. :(

And heh, uploading my photos to Flickr via my desktop PC is apparently slowing down my network, as Pandora is stalling here on my Mac. :-P Amusing. Never noticed network slowdowns before.

Holy shucking fit! I was trying to download some free things from the iTunes store, and it says my hard drive is full. My 70-Gig HD on my desktop. I don't download porn unlike some people I know. I don't download movies like others. I only have a 20-Gig iPod and I think I only own around 30 Gigs of music. Windows and Office and Warcraft III don't take up 40 Gigs. I'm going to run a defrag overnight, but that won't figure out the problem for me.

Help me out here folks. I've already gone and cleared out temp files. I went into my iTunes folder and there were a bunch of .tmp files there too that seem to have cleared up a couple freakin' GIGS of space. I am suspicious that it's a fucked up iTunes library, but I'm not sure how to fix it. I've seen visualization programs for the Mac that allow you to see how much disk space is allocated to different programs, is there one for the PC (Win XP)?

*grumble grumble* I didn't notice anything that looked like spyware when I ran the Task Manager, so I think I'm safe there. What else can I do to figure out (a) where my space's gone, and (b) how to stop gap in until I can figure it out?

Thanks in advance for any help.

ETA: Ugh, Disk Defragmenter says I can't run the defrag effectively b/c I now have only 6% of the disk free (5 Gigs) and it wants at least 15%. *grumble*

When burning an mp3 CD in iTunes 7, if you have the playlist sorted on the artist name or album name, iTunes will automatically create folders and subfolders on the CD. [ref] This unfortunately is not readable on many mp3 CD players (including my car). To not do the folders, sort either on time, song title, or song order (first column, unnamed, and ordered by default by when you added it to the list though you can reorder them), and then burn.

If you really really want them sorted by artist or album but without folders, first create a dummy playlist. In the real playlist, sort by artist or album, then select all (Cmnd-A) and drag into the dummy playlist. Delete the original playlist and rename the dummy to the name you want. When you sort on song number, it should be the same order as when you dragged into it.

Anybody remember the URL for editing tags? That is, to delete a tag entirely, move entries from one tag to another, and see how many entries have each tag?

[cr]Apple took a week to not fix my Macbook's wireless.

I keep having issues w/ my wireless internet disconnecting. My desktop hardwired is fine. Anyone know how I can determine whether it's the MacBook or my router without buying anything?

I am typing this from my new MacBook. First cool thing I noticed was that the mouse can sense two fingers instead of just one - used to be that if you had a second finger on the touchpad, it'd just go haywire. Now it uses that as a cue for scrolling, or for right clicking. A drawback though is that the edge of the bottom surface is sharp, so it's not as comfortable typing directly on it. And my primary to-do is to transfer over my music from my iPod, with setting up Apple Care as #2.

One hour 20 minutes later, my AppleCare case agent has offered me a bottom-line replacement MacBook. After some talking and Apple.com hunting, I'm paying $250 to upgrade to the white 2.0 GHz, 80 G HD, and another $192.50 for Apple Care on it. Interestingly, I could get the identical computer except in black for an additional $150. People must be on crack.

Now it's time for a Honda dealer!