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The Adventure of Finding a Photo Editing Software for Apple PowerBook 1400csI have recently spent a lot of time reviving an old Apple PowerBook 1400cs that my good friend, Paul, has given me. It has a power adapter that I fixed and a barely working floppy drive. That about sums up what it has. I managed to buy a copy of Mac OS 8 off eBay. I also found and installed an old 4GB hard drive that I removed from my Sony VAIO SuperSlim notebook a long time ago. And I dusted off the MediaVision ReNO 2x external CD-ROM drive in my closet. I had to also find the Macintosh SCSI notebook adapter, an active SCSI terminator, and a high-density SCSI cable. Whew! Good think I saved all these ancient technology from my college days. I have the PowerBook working in a stable condition now. And today, I was finally able to get it on my wireless network using a Linksys Wireless-B Game Adapter WGA11B. The wireless game adapter got me really excited, so I shot a picture of it to write about on this site. When I put the JPEG file on the PowerBook, I realized that Apple didn't provide any software that could view and modify JPEG files! Well, ain't no thang . . . I'm a power-user with a Computer Science degree, I can easily find a freeware or shareware photo editing software on the Internet, right? Wrong! There is hardly any software I could find for the Mac OS 8. Most of the software out there now are for Mac OS X. There are a few applications for Mac OS 9. But that's about it. People has always claimed how easy the Mac is on the user. But for a power-user like myself, I find it extremely difficult to believe. For one thing, after three hours of scouring the Internet, I'm still without a Macintosh photo editing software. I was almost at a point of saying, "Maybe I should just write one next time I needed a software for the Mac." Then I realized that I bought a bunch of digital cameras before (see my "Camera Hacker" web site in "Related Links" below). Some of them provide photo editing software for the Mac, right? Ahhh . . . that would be a perfect solution. I've never used software that came with my digital cameras, because I pride myself as a power-user and already have all the photo editing software I need installed. But hey, now I'm on a new operating system. So I pop out my digital camera instruction manuals. The first one is from my Canon EOS Digital Rebel. It comes with Adobe Photoshop Element 2. Awesome. I've heard good things about this application. Popping the CD into my trusty ReNO, I found that it only works on Mac OS 9 and Mac OS X. My face turned a little redder, but no matter, I got more. I found the instruction manuals for my Canon EOS D30. It comes with Adobe Photoshop 5 LE. And it installs on Mac OS 8. After installing it, I found that the Macintosh version is a "Tryout" version. What!? Adobe provided a fully functional version for Windows, but a demo version for the Mac. My blood pressure just shot up a notch. At this point, I decided to calm my nerves by writing this little adventure. Of course, I have a lot more digital cameras, so the adventure continues. But for now, I hope you enjoy my little vent while I go figure out how to uninstall Adobe Photoshop 5 Tryout.ˇ Chieh Cheng I couldn't figure out how to uninstall Adobe Photoshop 5 Tryout. So I just dragged its folder on the hard drive to the trash. I hope that is how you uninstall Macintosh applications. If you know a better way, please chime in. The next set of instruction in my box is for the Nikon Coolpix 4600. I got this digital camera for my mom. I knew she won't read the instruction manuals, nor used the software that came with it. So I kept it at my home. One day, she's gonna call and ask me how to do something with the digital camera. The manuals will come in handy on that day. Nikon provided PictureProject 1.1 with that camera. It has support for both Windows and Macintosh. I'm going to try installing it now. I will report back with the results. If the result is good, then you will also have a chance to read about the Linksys wireless adapter. PictureProject couldn't be installed, because the Installer couldn't find "CarbonLib". Whatever CarbonLib is, I suspect it is part of Mac OS X. I've seen that message before when I tried to install Adobe Photoshop Element 2 earlier. Well, time for me to try older digital cameras. Ones that I knew came out at the time that Mac OS 8 is still in favor. The Nikon Coolpix 950 came out a long time ago, back in the 1995 time frame. Surely software that comes with such an ancient beast would run on the PowerBook 1400cs. The software that came with that digital camera is the Nion View 2.5.1. Let see what this software could do. Wow! Looks like when the 950 came out, Mac OS 8.5 has already been released. The README file on the CD-ROM asked me to install SerialDMA 2.1 if I'm using an earlier Mac OS. I'm on a really old operating system. Nikon View installed effortlessly. However, as the name implies, it is only a viewer. It was able to pull up my JPEG file just fine, but I couldn't manipulate it. Good thing that there is another application on the CD-ROM called "HotShots". The name isn't very good, because I couldn't figure out what it is. I took a chance anyway, but good thing I did, because it is a photo editing software. It was able to resize and save my JPEG file. Whether it can continue to perform more demanding task in the future is still up in the air. But when the time comes, I'll try installing more free photo editing software. I still have a lot more in the box. Chieh Cheng
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