Essential software for my new Mac – part 2

Well, I receive zip files via email and downloads so I need to expand zip and sit files, and it turns out that Tiger does not include the Stuffit program that was previously included. No big deal, just go to the Stuffit site and download the expander app.

I moved my copy of Adobe Photoshop to my new Powerbook, and ran the updater to v7.01. I have no need of any more recent version of Photoshop so I’ll stay with this one for now.

I should retitle the post to “Essential software for my old Mac” as I decided to upgrade the OS on my powermac to 10.4.8 Tiger, so I purchased a copy of it. I also added memory to get it up to the 2gb max. This MDD Powermac has dual 1.25 ghz processors, and has a 1600×1200 digital display. It works quite well. So that I could work on video equally well on either Mac, I bought a copy of iLife ’05 and installed it on the Powermac. That gave me the latest iTunes and iMovieHD, and iDvd.

I purchased Roxio Toast Titanium v7 even though v8 is available. v7 is cheaper since v8 is out, but I don’t need the functionality of moving video to a video iPod since I don’t own one. If I get one in the future, maybe, but for now that was unneeded so I decided on v7.

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