Running iTunes and iPhoto through external hardrive.

Howzit.
I need help, my memory capacity is FULL, i would like to run my itunes and iphoto options (completely) through an external hardrive to free up space on my mac.
Please explain clearly and sytematically I'm a beginner and learner yet.
Thank you so much

iTunes is simpler than iPhoto at doing this, as it has the ability in its preferences to use a different folder for organizing music. However, I would warn against doing this, as external hard drives have been known in the past to disconnect, and have problems with Spotlight indexing a lot more frequently than with internal drives. Also to add to that, it makes backing up such files harder as a simple clone of your internal drive won't backup the files you move to the external. You'll have to manually backup those files elsewhere whether DVD, or a second external hard drive. Here's my FAQ on backing up:
http://www.macmaps.com/backup.html
If you are willing to take the risks involved and are prepared to work with them, I believe you can do this by Quitting from iPhoto and making a Unix shortcut to the external drive replacing your existing Pictures folder on the internal drive once the Pictures folder is on the external drive. I'm not sure which command line ln command makes the right type of link, but I'm sure with some research you can find it.
Edit: your Powerbook will take up to 160 GB internal ATA/IDE 2.5" hard drives. You might want to seriously consider getting that.

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