So then, here's a thing:- iTunes can handle videos (badly), PDFs (mmm, well …) and obviously music. iPhoto can handle images and videos. My questions:

• Why is video playback (which must use Quicktime … it is Apple after all), in iTunes, soooo bad? It stutters and seems to require ridiculous amounts of RAM and takes forever to start. Why? Why not use iTunes to organise the videos, rank them and so on, and then pop open a new Quicktime window to view them (apart from then having to remove the stupid Pro only view fullscreen limitation in Quicktime)?

• The more media we need to store, organise, search, find and access, the more the combination of the Finder, iTunes and iPhoto (and that‘s without even getting into text files and bookmarks), becomes unwieldy and ultimately doesn’t cut it. What is the alternative?

• I've been playing with Bare Bones' Yojimbo to organise bookmarks, serial numbers, pdfs and notes, but it's another layer - one more thing to be running. Again how do we begin to tame all this data?

Is it possible, using the current OS, to find a super fast, super efficient answer to these questions? Any thoughts?

SteamSHIFT out.