I hate technology....

It should be easy, but I'm ready to pull my hair out. For the past two days I've been trying to download my videos of Maddie onto our computer. We got a nice new video camera with a hard drive for Christmas last year and I have a year and half's worth of videos on it. I want to put it on my Mac so I can download it on my iPod...but the software that came with the camera doesn't work with Macs, so it says you're supposed to pay $150 to get the version that does. Maybe I'm cheap, but that seems a little ridiculous! So I thought I'd just put it on Brandon's PC, but I couldn't find the USB cord, so I had to go buy one. blahblahblah, it's still not working. If anyone who reads this is any bit smarter than me about his stuff let me know what I should do! I want to try to get it done before I go to India next week!