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Ok I bought my first mac in april 2007. It was a 2.2Ghz White Macbook, perfectly fine for me. 6 replacements later I Have a 2.53Ghz Unibody MBP and a 2.8Ghz 24" iMac. I have not spent a cent on a computer (apart from a bit of ram here and there) since my initial outlay of €1500. Do the maths and what I have now is worth €3848, well over twice my initial purchase, and well over my initial needs. My compensation is completely warranted, no question. The only problem is, how to get the most out of these machines.
I take a lot of photo's and edit them a bit, however my first mac could nearly do this.
I am probably going to be starting to do a little bit of video'ing and then editing soon, but that will end by april.
What I am looking for is ideas from you people on what I could start doing to get the most out my machines? I would love to write programs but the learning bit is very boring to me especially as in the beginning it is all command line and no GUI, which is what I love.
So has anyone any suggestions? I don't have that much cash to spend, I have an absolutly huge amount of storage, and two very powerful machines.
Thanks in advance! Hopefully this will lead me on to better things than games!
Regards

Depending on what kind of programming you've done (or want to do), you might want to take a look at REALbasic at http://www.realsoftware.com/
If you've used or heard of Visual Basic, it's a rough equivalent, but many say much better.
It's designed for interactive apps, although it can be used for console apps as well. It's object-oriented and event-driven, and can be used to make cross-platform apps as well.
Programming is done via an IDE (interactive development environment) -- a.k.a., GUI.
If you're new to such things, there will be something of a learning curve. It comes with fairly full onscreen documentation, including a tutorial and example projects. You can also purchase printed versions of two of the manuals (I got the User's Guide, and thought it was well worth it).
I think it's still $99 per year, including about 4 updates. And you can download it and use it in demo mode for a couple of weeks, as I recall.

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The only way to see an image contained within a PictClipping in OSX 10.8.4 is in Apple's own Finder App. and it appears that you can't do anything with it once you have "found" it?! …
That's exactly as it is meant to be, Ann. An image that is lightning fast to create, lightning fast to view and utterly impossible to alter, manipulate or edit!
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CameraAnn wrote:
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