There's been a lot of talk about a new backup service at Macworld called Dolly Drive. From Maclife:
The service lets you use Time Machine to back up to the cloud. When you install it, it creates a volume on your Desktop that Time Machine sees as any old external hard drive—but it's a cloud drive. Yes, the first backup to the cloud will take forever, it's true. And what about a bootable backup in case your hard drive fails? Dolly Drive knows you can't boot from the cloud, so the software also has a one-click button to make a bootable backup onto an external drive too. You really only have to do it once, though, so you have something to boot from, then grab the rest of your data from the cloud, using the familiar Time Machine interface you know and love. Smart thinking.
Dolly Drive's Quick Start plan is $10/month for 250GB of storage, which they bump up by 5GB every month as a little reward. Or pay $5/month for 50GB, or $7.50 for 100GB, and both those grow by 5GB per month too.
It sounds great and I may try it. I use Time Machine now, but I've been wanting both a cloud backup and a bootable clone and this seems to solve both problems. I'll wait till there are some reviews first but I'm definitely keeping an eye on it.
I wonder how much they will "upgrade" you over time for. I'm a (somewhat) patient man. An extra 5gb a month is a lot to gain quite shortly!
I've been looking at this. It seems pretty cool but the 10$/mo adds up to $120 a year and I can get Carbonite for $54.95(without a coupon code) and have unlimted (1 computer) backups. I've used TM a little on my wifes macbook but never mine but I have used the Free Trial of Carbonite before. How "great" is TM and is it worth that extra $$$?
There's been a lot of talk about a new backup service at Macworld called Dolly Drive. From Maclife:
The service lets you use Time Machine to back up to the cloud. When you install it, it creates a volume on your Desktop that Time Machine sees as any old external hard drive—but it's a cloud drive. Yes, the first backup to the cloud will take forever, it's true. And what about a bootable backup in case your hard drive fails? Dolly Drive knows you can't boot from the cloud, so the software also has a one-click button to make a bootable backup onto an external drive too. You really only have to do it once, though, so you have something to boot from, then grab the rest of your data from the cloud, using the familiar Time Machine interface you know and love. Smart thinking.
Dolly Drive's Quick Start plan is $10/month for 250GB of storage, which they bump up by 5GB every month as a little reward. Or pay $5/month for 50GB, or $7.50 for 100GB, and both those grow by 5GB per month too.
It sounds great and I may try it. I use Time Machine now, but I've been wanting both a cloud backup and a bootable clone and this seems to solve both problems. I'll wait till there are some reviews first but I'm definitely keeping an eye on it.
I wonder how much they will "upgrade" you over time for. I'm a (somewhat) patient man. An extra 5gb a month is a lot to gain quite shortly!
I've been looking at this. It seems pretty cool but the 10$/mo adds up to $120 a year and I can get Carbonite for $54.95(without a coupon code) and have unlimted (1 computer) backups. I've used TM a little on my wifes macbook but never mine but I have used the Free Trial of Carbonite before. How "great" is TM and is it worth that extra $$$?
I use carbonite on my wifes macbook (and thank god as her drive died last June and she is a teacher)...
It does a great job backing files up but the restore process I found to be a chore. The GUI for it is far better on the windows side. Apples focus on user interface has made me want to keep a local time machine for situations like that and use carbonite for a last resort only.
I've never had to restore from TM (knock on wood) but I love the 'set it and forget it' aspect. I've looked at Carbonite and Super Duper and such and those sound promising too, I do want to get an offsite backup and a clone at some point, but I'll wait till there are some reviews of Dolly Drive to see how it stacks up.
Time Machine saved my life when the video died in my first 24" iMac. As soon as the 27" hit my desk, the hard drive plugged in and I was back where I stopped.
Uh, possibly a stupid question but i can't for the life of me remember doing it on my macbook, but how/where do i set up file preferences? I want to open all my video with VLC rather than QuickTime direct from Finder but I can't find where to make this happen automatically.
I bought a Magic Mouse to go with my MBP as long hours of trackpad use were getting uncomfortable. Great little device and design, but does it come in an adult size?
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So I've been all boasting my love of Textmate (which I do) when a colleague was telling me to man up and give vim a shot after we were talking about some Ruby stuff. So I installed MacVim, found a couple of Textmate to MacVim guides and holy shit, the workflow efficiency is just kickass, not to mention the availability of plugins out there. I still like Textmate for certain things, such as command+R to quickly run scripts or compile builds, but split-panes in Vim and NERDTree is like the Project explorer in TextMate and it just feels good to use.
Textmate does offer code-completion for many languages though, which is nice, but even so, it won't offer code completion for includes of imports, but vim doesn't seem to offer any code completion. It has been forcing me to not rely on intellisense to write my code though. I find myself getting more familiar with docs and API's, so maybe that is a plus.
Either way, I am just here to gush over my new found love for vim. We had to write simple C stuff in vim way back in school for one class, but that was it. It feels geeky good.
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"If you're going to play tiddly winks, play it with man hole covers."
- John McCallum
Ok guys. I need all your powers combined to help me solve a problem.
My kid dumped a bit of juice under the left shift key on my brand new MBP. I don't really trust myself to take the keys off as it seems to be pretty on there. Is there any liquid I can use to make it unsticky then maybe blow it out with canned air?
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So, I see the caterpillar has emerged from his cocoon...as a shark...with a gun for a mouth.
Taking off the keys is a lot easier and more foolproof than it seems. Find something small (toothpick, paper clip, etc) to use as leverage, and just lift up on the shift key from the bottom or left side. It might take a bit of pressure, but you're not going to break it.
Yep. The only difference with the shift key is there's a little metal bar on the key that locks into little plastic clips. When you pull up the key, you might feel like you need to pull so hard it'll break the little clips. Don't worry, they won't break.
If i was going to do the bootcamp dual booting windows thing (for games!), what would be the best version of windows to use? Should I buy a copy of windows 7? Or look for a copy of XP?
If i was going to do the bootcamp dual booting windows thing (for games!), what would be the best version of windows to use? Should I buy a copy of windows 7? Or look for a copy of XP?
Seven.
Really.
Actually, it mostly depends on how old your collection is, but for new games? Seven for sure.
XP is good, Vista is dire, 7 is Microsoft's "once a decade or so we do something right" for 2001-2011.
If i was going to do the bootcamp dual booting windows thing (for games!), what would be the best version of windows to use? Should I buy a copy of windows 7? Or look for a copy of XP?
XP is an awful choice nowadays... It is over ten years old, and pretty much every new game makes use of dx10 or better to good effect.
Don't even think about it; get 7.
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If i was going to do the bootcamp dual booting windows thing (for games!), what would be the best version of windows to use? Should I buy a copy of windows 7? Or look for a copy of XP?
7 all the way. I run Win 7 Ultimate x64, personally.
Dragon Age runs smooth like butter on my 13" MBP but I have yet to try any other games yet.
I bought a Magic Mouse to go with my MBP as long hours of trackpad use were getting uncomfortable. Great little device and design, but does it come in an adult size?
Return that shit, pronto. Worst fucking mouse I've used in a long time.
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I bought a Magic Mouse to go with my MBP as long hours of trackpad use were getting uncomfortable. Great little device and design, but does it come in an adult size?
Return that shit, pronto. Worst fucking mouse I've used in a long time.
The Magic Mouse is a perfectly fine product if you learn its strengths and weaknesses.
Without question though, it is one of the worst mice for gaming ever conceived. (no independent buttons really does mess up games like WOW, first person shooters, etc).
As a productivity tool, it's not bad at all.
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I bought a Magic Mouse to go with my MBP as long hours of trackpad use were getting uncomfortable. Great little device and design, but does it come in an adult size?
Return that shit, pronto. Worst fucking mouse I've used in a long time.
I'd love to hear your reasons why. I use the Magic Mouse on a daily basis and it's a dream come true. Sticky scroll wheels are so 90s.
Of course when gaming I switch over to the Sidewinder, but the Magic Mouse isn't marketed as a gaming mouse so I can't fault it on that.
It's completely unergonomic and the multitouch gestures work half the time if you're lucky. The "feet" of the mouse, so to speak, are horrible, and uniformly feel like crap on almost every surface I've tried it on.
I'm sure this attachment would solve my first complaint, but honestly, I shouldn't have to buy a second product just to make the first product comfortable to use.
The Magic Trackpad is infinitely more usable than the Magic Mouse. The multitouch gestures are fantastic on both (if you define custom gestures with BetterTouchTool, you can do some REALLY badass stuff), but the trackpad has the added benefit of not making your hand/wrist hate you.
The Magic Mouse is unusable to me as well. It's terrible. The Magic Trackpad is pure awesome though.
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Yeah I can't see buying the Magic Mouse, since games are basically the only time I prefer a mouse to a trackpad. The magic trackpad would be a nice addition to my bluetooth Apple keyboard though.
I love my Magic Trackpad, it's better than any mouse I've ever used. The gestures are fantastic. The only thing it's not so great for is dragging across multiple monitors (or one big monitor), but I'm willing to forgive that because it's so great otherwise.
I love my Magic Trackpad, it's better than any mouse I've ever used. The gestures are fantastic. The only thing it's not so great for is dragging across multiple monitors (or one big monitor), but I'm willing to forgive that because it's so great otherwise.
Its easy to forget there even is a dragging issue at all if you use the three finger drag. No click needed, and there is a grace period from the time you lift your fingers up to the time it stops dragging.
It's pretty damn efficient.
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The shitty thing about the three finger drag is that it stops you from being able to use any other three-finger gestures. Besides the built-in three finger left/right swipes to navigate your history (in Safari, etc), I fucking love having three finger swipe up/down mapped to open/close a tab in any application (Cmd+T, Cmd+W).
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I've been looking at this. It seems pretty cool but the 10$/mo adds up to $120 a year and I can get Carbonite for $54.95(without a coupon code) and have unlimted (1 computer) backups. I've used TM a little on my wifes macbook but never mine but I have used the Free Trial of Carbonite before. How "great" is TM and is it worth that extra $$$?
I use carbonite on my wifes macbook (and thank god as her drive died last June and she is a teacher)...
It does a great job backing files up but the restore process I found to be a chore. The GUI for it is far better on the windows side. Apples focus on user interface has made me want to keep a local time machine for situations like that and use carbonite for a last resort only.
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edit: and by 'it' I mean any video of the format that you want to open with VLC.
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Will it let me use my 360 on my iMac display? If so, where get!
And thanks elevature.
Yeah, let's you plug in any HDMI-based device (PS3, 360, Blu-Ray Player, etc.) to a 27" iMac to use its display.
http://www.belkin.com/IWCatProductPage.process?Product_Id=508267
http://www.kanexlive.com/products/kanexXD.html
http://www.drbott.net/product/9598-DGVL/
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=300518481376&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT#ht_1736wt_952
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Apple is slowly taking over my house
(Please release the new macbook pros soon guys)
Very happy with mine.
The express I bought for my wifes parents is working out great so far (haven't heard of a disconnect once yet).
I'm hopeful this will be a nice upgrade to the WRT54GL with dd-wrt (and i can do time machine backups now)
Apparently the Mac version of Dragon Age 2 will be out March 8'th, the same day as all the other versions.
But, it's a Cider port. So... huh. Not sure how I should feel.
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Textmate does offer code-completion for many languages though, which is nice, but even so, it won't offer code completion for includes of imports, but vim doesn't seem to offer any code completion. It has been forcing me to not rely on intellisense to write my code though. I find myself getting more familiar with docs and API's, so maybe that is a plus.
Either way, I am just here to gush over my new found love for vim. We had to write simple C stuff in vim way back in school for one class, but that was it. It feels geeky good.
"If you're going to play tiddly winks, play it with man hole covers."
- John McCallum
My kid dumped a bit of juice under the left shift key on my brand new MBP. I don't really trust myself to take the keys off as it seems to be pretty on there. Is there any liquid I can use to make it unsticky then maybe blow it out with canned air?
Really.
Actually, it mostly depends on how old your collection is, but for new games? Seven for sure.
XP is good, Vista is dire, 7 is Microsoft's "once a decade or so we do something right" for 2001-2011.
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XP is an awful choice nowadays... It is over ten years old, and pretty much every new game makes use of dx10 or better to good effect.
Don't even think about it; get 7.
Let's play Mario Kart or something...
7 all the way. I run Win 7 Ultimate x64, personally.
Dragon Age runs smooth like butter on my 13" MBP but I have yet to try any other games yet.
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I've been away from windows for so long I forgot that Vista even existed, whoops.
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Return that shit, pronto. Worst fucking mouse I've used in a long time.
The Magic Mouse is a perfectly fine product if you learn its strengths and weaknesses.
Without question though, it is one of the worst mice for gaming ever conceived. (no independent buttons really does mess up games like WOW, first person shooters, etc).
As a productivity tool, it's not bad at all.
Let's play Mario Kart or something...
I'd love to hear your reasons why. I use the Magic Mouse on a daily basis and it's a dream come true. Sticky scroll wheels are so 90s.
Of course when gaming I switch over to the Sidewinder, but the Magic Mouse isn't marketed as a gaming mouse so I can't fault it on that.
Switch: 6200-8149-0919 / Wii U: maximumzero / 3DS: 0860-3352-3335 / eBay Shop
I'm sure this attachment would solve my first complaint, but honestly, I shouldn't have to buy a second product just to make the first product comfortable to use.
XBL |Steam | PSN | last.fm
Its easy to forget there even is a dragging issue at all if you use the three finger drag. No click needed, and there is a grace period from the time you lift your fingers up to the time it stops dragging.
It's pretty damn efficient.
Let's play Mario Kart or something...
I'm hoping for it to become my default share point in the house but just need a decent (and cheap) enclosure than can do the RAID1 setup.
I'd love a drobo but $$$