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I use photoshop rather well. And no, it doesn't get a capitalization. For now, I'm doing it for school.

I don't use my Mac for work unfortunately.  I'm stuck with a Windows machine.  I like my Mac because it gives me the least amount of grief, I can do lots of fiddling with it and I like the UI.  I'm not so much living the iLife.

i like photography, i have a bunch of my photos up at www.saveyourgeneration.com

so yeah i use a lot of lightroom and (less these days) photoshop.  occasionally do some final cut work for broadcast news stuff.  i use sheep shaver to play some old lucas arts games.  lots of music.  the usual...

Last edited by thelegendofjohn (2007-04-24 9:47 pm)

MS Office for on the road work tasks (forced to use a Dell at work for network reasons)

iPhoto/Lightroom for family photos

Final Cut Express for lots of family video

iTunes streamed to my home theater system for my music

RSS news feeds via The MacReporter (haven't bought a newspaper in years).

Love drag and drop for p0rn pix

I'm going to school to be a pilot, my passion is flight.  My hobbies are sports and macs.  I enjoy learning about system hacks, playing counter-strike and call of duty, internet browsing, working my online job (disaster recovery tech support), and ive built one PC so far.

nice web page Czachorski
great thread btw

Last edited by maleko (2007-04-24 10:33 pm)

IM, Pron and ahhhhh is there anything more to do on the tubes

iLife stuff, gaming, and Finale (I hate the Windows version).

I've been asking myself the same question for a couple of years now: what's my passion?

For a while, it was Macs and Apple and evangelizing/following the developments with Apple and the Mac community. When a hobby turns into a job, however, there tends to be more time available for other pursuits -- and those pursuits just aren't happening for me right now.

On my Twitter page (see sig), I describe myself as:
"like charlie in 'flowers for algernon,' only I used to be creative instead of smart."

...and that's really how I feel right now. I remember being creative, and being talented, and being passionate about my cartooning and painting and music. But try as I might, I just can't light that fire again.

Since the advent of technology in my everyday home life (circa 1997), I've been a voracious information junkie. I'm on the internet almost all the time, and I'm a glutton for useless information: that is to say, I read up on the Mac / tech sites and news sites daily, I'll occasionally wander off in a bout of digital ADD for a while and read up on useless stuff for a while before I refocus back on my original task.

And I remember beforehand, while struggling to make ends meet, I actually made a hand-drawn copy/paste ad and catalog for handmade sci-fi novelty items (buttons, pins, figurines). I actually got more requests for catalogs than I expected, and I got even more orders than I ever dreamed -- so much so that I had to backtrack and refund a bunch of orders that I couldn't fill.  I still hold that in my mind as an example of how I busted my ass trying to get things done that I cared about in my BC (before computer) life, while I've pretty much just squandered all my time since then. With the tools I've had at my disposal since that time, I could have done LOTS more of that sort of stuff, but it's almost like the digital life sucks all the creative energy out of me.

That, or maybe it's just getting old and having kids -- which happened all around the same time frame.

Either way, I'm working on getting back into the swing of things creatively. I'm trying to find a passion again. (The prices for CS3 aren't really helping the process along, though...but that's another subject altogether).

(Sorry for going off on a rant. The original post just sorta busted open the floodgates for me.)

I use it to keep my door open.
iMacs really aren't good for that, and the pro machines are just too expensive to use for that purpose.

C. Ives wrote:

iLife stuff, gaming, and Finale (I hate the Windows version).

What's the difference between the Windows version and the Mac version?  I'm currently using Sibelius 4, though!

I miss music.

Yes

Oh, I have to actually put something here? Well it is assisting me in my nefarious plot to take over the world. But it's so much work.

Home videos, photos, making music CDs, writing, and some freelance writing that I do at home, gaming.

Soon though, all you bases are mine. And then when the net is unified I will remove all opposition.