Fiona has a new MacBook Pro, and I wanted to copy her iTunes library from her old iMac to the new MacBook Pro. She's got around 60gig of music and video in the library, and I was trying to figure out how to shift all that data easily. I found various ideas on line to do with shifting the library index file, importing, consolidating etc. And was a little phased by the idea of copying 60gig over the wireless network.

In the end found the perfect solution:

1. Hook the two machines together with a Firewire cable
2. Restart the iMac (source machine) while holding down the 'T' key. This starts the Mac in Firewire mode
3. The source machine appears as a drive on the destination Mac
4. Delete the iTunes library folder on the destination Mac
5. Drag the iTunes library folder from the source Mac

It took about an hour for the 60gig to move over, which isn't too bad.

Started up iTunes on the new Mac and the library was there and available with no fuss. Synced up her iPod to the MacBook Pro and she was off and running.

Finally getting some integration in my social media life. This post is to help me remember what I’ve done!!

I have an account on Facebook
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=707616522

 I can update my Facebook status via my Blackberry using the Facebook Blackberry software:
http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=2254487659&b&ref=pd

On Facebook I have the fb2twit application installed. This sends my Facebook Status updates to my Twitter account:
http://apps.facebook.com/fbtotwit/

My account at Twitter is:
http://twitter.com//davideedle/

I have a TypePad blog (this blog):
http://eedle.typepad.com/

On my blog I display my latest Facebook status, and my latest Tweets, using widgets – they’re installable via my Typepad admin pages.

Finally I have an account with TwitterFeed. TwitterFeed can grab RSS and other blog type feeds, and send them to yur Twitter account. I’ve got it grabbing:

– My blog feed
– The collectZing corporate blog
– My personal collectZing Member RSS feed (shows my activity on collectZing.com)

OK, so this means that:

Anything I post on my blog etc winds up on Twitter. It then does a 180 turn as well and shows up on my blog in the sidebar.

As I update my Facebook status, it propagates up to Twitter, then to my blog sidebar.

Blimey, it’s a full time job this social media stuff.

I’m in love with http://twittervision.com/. Watching posts to Twitter in real time on a world map. It’s completely engrossing.