Translucent windows, colourful buttons, powerful software and a UNIX software basis. In 2006 the Mac and its operating system were amazing: it looked like it came from the future. My first Mac in 2006: a G4 Mac Mini with 1GB RAM running OS X Tiger This was visionary stuff in 2002 (Windows Vista wasn’t invented yet!). You should watch the iLife introduction video, featuring Jony Ive and Phil Schiller. It was designed to be easy and fun! Introducing iLife in 2002 - shown on an iMac G4 - designed to be fun, easy and powerful When Steve Jobs introduced the iLife apps for Apple Macintosh in 2002 he described it as “It’s like Microsoft Office for the rest of your life.” It was specifically designed to as a center piece to manage your digital lifestyle: iTunes for music, iMovie for video, iPhoto for photos. My computer in 2005: Windows XP, Nokia Communicator and MSN Messenger My Windows computer was very much an office tool.

Software of that day wasn’t designed to accommodate the ever growing digital memories. (Lake Garda, Italy, 2001) Yesteryear’s memory cards - note that they are sized in MB, as in mega, not gigabyte! Hello Apple Macintoshįast forward a few years and my digital photo library grew significantly. the “Willem museum”, ha! My computer in 2001, captured using the Digimax 800K No vintage photo filters applied: this is an untouched original digital photo from 2001. When I look at those pictures, it’s like visiting a museum. It captured some of my most interesting teenage memories. My first digital camera: a Samsung Digimax 800K shooting 1024x768px photosĭespite its limitations, I used this bad boy to take pictures. In every way it was extremely limited: it was very slow, it had a lousy battery life, it lacked a display and its memory card could only fit approximately 12 photos. It was a 0.8 megapixel camera from Samsung: a Digimax 800K.

Shooting digital photos since 2001ĭue to some luck (a relative won it in a lottery), I got my first digital camera in 2001. Read along to learn how I migrated my photo library away from the iCloud, using free, open source software. But for something as valuable as my personal memories, I want to be in full control. Apple came a long way since it launched iPhoto (the predecessor of iCloud Photos). After encountering the umpteenth ‘magic’ bug while managing my iPhone’s photos, I was done with it.

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