Best way to organize my data?

Hi forum.
At home I have an old, OLD mac - an iBook G4. And I have an iPhone 4. I did this the wrong way...didn't realize I needed a higher OS and therefore a newer notebook until after I bought the iPhone 4. However, my IT guy at work wiped my iBook and installed OS 10.6.something on the machine, so that I could use my phone. While seemingly-backwards, this was a good thing because I couldn't have even gone back down to an iPhone 3GS because my OS was too old.
I also have a work computer which is a thing of beauty - an iMac which also runs 10.6.5. I had my iPhone synced to my iBook, and then decided to sync to my work iMac in the hopes that I'd be able to put everything there, and so now I have stuff all over the place. I have an external hard drive but don't really know what to do with it except do back-ups from my iBook and then put it away...I know there's a more efficient way to do all of this, and eventually I would like all my files to be in one place, but I think I've messed it all up by syncing to more than one computer and also using the external. All my purchased music is on the iMac and everything else is on the iBook, and God only knows where my pictures are. Calendar syncing? Can't even do that except through the MobileMe cloud.
In very simple terms, can anyone suggest a solution (besides buying a new notebook, not in my budget)? My iBook won't even support a backup anymore (startup disk is full) and has basically become a glorified DVD player.
Thanks for any suggestions, really - thank you!

Hi BlockyD,
Thank you post the issue to our forum.
With what you described, I see there is a requirement creating sub directory ( sub container) in the azure storage service. And azure storage doesn't provide the concept of heirarchical containers. However, we can name container as "Image" then
name blob as "291/follower.jpg", the '/' just a conventional character. More information you can follow those two thread: #
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2619007/windows-azure-how-to-create-sub-directory-in-a-blob-container #http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3183857/how-to-create-a-sub-container-in-azure-storage-location
In my mind, "simple is best". Just save blob files into single container like "Images". Then add a field which can differentiate what type the blob is like below:
Gallery: Elton John
GalleryID: 412
URL:
https://davidwblockstorage.blob.core.windows.net/Images/Elton John-20140312-0017.jpg
Type: type1
Gallery: Elton Tome
GalleryID: 123
URL:
https://davidwblockstorage.blob.core.windows.net/Images/Elton Tome-20140312-0017.jpg
Type: type2
If that is, both saving blob and reading blob are simple.
Best Regards,
Fuxaing
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