My friend Andy was shocked recently at the number of unread messages in my inbox (currently 5299...). He bragged, "I have zero unread in mine." "Okay. Dork."
I recommend he stitch this merit badge to his girl scout sash to show off his achievement:
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My friend Andy was shocked recently at the number of unread messages in my inbox (currently 5299...). He bragged, "I have zero unread in mine." "Okay. Dork."
I recommend he stitch this merit badge to his girl scout sash to show off his achievement:
I was having a friendly debate with a friend the other day. She claimed to be an even bigger "dork" than myself. A many people have challenged my reigning status as the king dork and each time I have emerged victorious. I got really excited the other day about something that only bonafide dorks can get stoked over. I logged into my Flickr account and noticed the following:
Flickr is no longer in gamma stage!! I joined this photo hosting community years ago when it quite literally only had 100 members. Tear. The baby's all growns up. And guess what? It loves you (trademarked).
The past year or so I've been struggling with my iBook G4's diminishing hard drive space and I did the following to try and create more space. 1. MUSIC. I deleted mp3s (all legal of course).
2. PHOTOS. My iPhoto was next. I deleted those random photos of grass. Seriously, I don't know why but I took a photograph of grass. Not of the inhaling variety, but of the playing frisbee on sort. I deleted photos that through the looking glass of hindsight wasn't that funny, or memorable, or 'artsy.'
Also, when you import photos to Apple's native photo program, iPhoto will save the original image if you decide to crop, remove the red eye or in any way manipulate that photo. This is a great feature if you want to go back and look at the original after you edited it. Not so great if you don't have that much free space on your hard drive. This might not seem like much, but if you have hundreds and hundreds of photos, those 500k - 2 MB photo duplicates start adding up!
I use a FANTASTIC program called iPhoto Diet that automates the extremely tedious act of going through and removing from each folder the duplicate photos.
Also, I lowered my digital camera's setting from the highest quality photos to a medium quality: I realized that I actually didn't need a 3 MB photograph of my friends and I jumping around like idiots. Although the day that I'm invited to the Playboy Mansion or have a date with Kristin Kreuk, I'm totally jacking up my camera's setting back up to ultra-mega-super quality.
I don't think Flickr is going to go out of business any time soon (Cue my parent's saying, "Never say never..."), so even the photos I've deleted, I have them backed up on my Flickr Pro account.
3. APPLICATIONS. I deleted/uninstalled applications.
I love Apple Works, but I came to deal with the fact that I haven't used it since high school when I used to explicate Frost on my mom's old Apple Performa. And although my hatred for Microsoft Word is up there with bigots, cauliflower, and diarrhea (seriously, this is possibly the most deceptively difficult word to spell in the English language--I can NEVER remember how to spell it correctly), I'm still a slave to this program. Damn you Gates. DAMN YOU.
So Apple Works--pfft. Gone.
Also deleted:
4. MAIL. I have my Mail application synched with my gmail account (feel free to email me fan mail, love letters, or that great offer from the king of Nigeria). It's great to use a desktop based email program, but sometimes I let my old emails pile up, along with the attachments (mp3s, LOLCATS e-mai1z, and photos of Britney Spears mentionables) people send me. So I've been diligent about deleting old emails (which are backed up on Gmail anyway).
5. PRON. Believe it or not, but I have zero, nadda, zip pr0n on my hard drive.
6. DOCUMENTS. Individually, they hardly make a dent, but in combination my documents took up an annoying quantity of my hard drive. So I deleted:
After doing all this, I STILL did not have much space left, which didn't seem to make sense to me and I really didn't want to delete my complete collection of Tupac's music or my Aaron Neville's Greatest Hits.
So I went to Apple's Support Discussion pages for help and eventually ended up on this link which turned out to be a revelation.
They wrote:
Trashed iDVD or GarageBand? Don't forget the loops and themes…
If you plan to uninstall iDVD® or GarageBand™ by moving these applications' icons from the Macintosh HD > Applications folder to the Trash, be sure to also trash the corresponding iDVD or GarageBand folders within the Macintosh HD > Library > Application Support folder. These folders contain iDVD themes and GarageBand loops and instruments, respectively, and consume several gigabytes of disk space.
I was intrigued. I had deleted iDVD AND GarageBand for the reasons stated above. Now, I followed their instructions and deleted the both programs's supporting files (drag and drop into Trash).
BAM!
I instantly had 2+ gigs of more hard drive space!!!
So for those of you with macs and need to free up some space on your hard drive, and don't use either of the above programs, delete them as well as the support files.
Also, in this Mac Support discussion thread, someone suggested deleting the printer drivers that I don't use. I don't have a printer, so I really don't need any of them. As they also noted, if at a later point I purchase a printer then it will come with a driver or I can download it off the Internets. If you already have a printer, say a Lexmark, then delete the other printers. The Epson driver is around 1 gig. Yea, what the fuck, right? By deleting these annoying drivers I squeezed out some even more hard drive goodness.
WORD OF CAUTION: Do not delete files willy nilly from the Library. Many of those files are crucial to the operating system, and deleting them will result in catastrophic failure. If you're going to mess with the Library, then treat it like a virgin. Mess with it delicately; do your research; and don't probe and move things about indiscriminately.
If any one has any other ideasfor freeing up hard drive space, let me know por favor!