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Update: Mac OS X 10.4.7
Turns your voice into sugar water
Just to lighten the mood a little from all my back up
preaching; you have to go and download
Voice Candy!
It
has 8 crazy voice effects that should have you giggling
like a mouse or even Darth Vader.
Back to the backup
Backup, Backup, Backup!
If you don't; then one day, you'll be crying over a whole lot of lost data when your hard disc drive dies. I've been there and it's not a pretty site. You don't want to hear a tech person ask "have you got a backup?"
Tyler Hall had recently covered backing up on a Mac, so instead of rehashing, take some time and read his: how-to-backup-your-mac-intelligently.
You might also want to read this review of SuperDuper, the backup software. You can download it here.
If you really want more information on other backup software, you can find it at Plasticsfuture.
I think I will take time to write a more friendly guide to backing up. I realise it can seem mumbo-jumbo.
A good review; from the Beeb?
"Apple's entry-level line of consumer laptops should give PC giants like Dell and HP sleepless nights.
The new MacBooks are powerful, fast and sleek machines, at a price to rival similar offerings from the world of Windows.
In addition, they sport Intel chips, so they can run Microsoft's operating system as well as Apple's OS X."
read on.
His negatives are: heat, lack of PC card slot and no modem. "Laptop" really is a misnomer for, well, laptops. I'd not keep them on your lap for too long. As for a card slot, have you ever used one? Surely you'd be buying a Mac Book Pro if you were likely to? Modem, seriously? A modem? You've Ethernet, Bluetooth and WiFi and well, you want a modem? You'll be wanting a floppy disc drive next.
I'd still not run out and get one quite yet; tends to be best to avoid first generation products.
Macs? Expensive? Nah
Bookmark Syncing Part 1
The most obvious way is to use
.mac
from Apple.
"Keep multiple Macs in sync and access your information
from anywhere. Update Address Book contacts, view iCal
calendars, and access Safari bookmarks on multiple
Macs. With .Mac syncing, all your information stays
current on every Mac you use. And, because .Mac is
web-based, you can get to your stored information from
any Mac or PC with an Internet connection.
See how
it works..."
What's the hitch? Well, .mac isn't free. It' costs £69
(€99 Ireland) per year, there is a
60 day free trial
available.
Obviously that pays for more than just the syncing.
With .mac you get a lot of
features
(mail, web hosting, iDisk etc) , it's up-to-you if you
think they are worth the cost, some argue that a lot of
them are available elsewhere for free, though will lack
the full integration of .mac.
If
you're a
FireFox
user, then there's a free solution available from
Google.
Google Browser Sync.
"Google
Browser Sync for Firefox is an extension that
continuously synchronizes your browser settings –
including bookmarks, history, persistent cookies, and
saved passwords – across your
computers."
I like some features in FireFox; search, moveable tabs
etc. There are also a lot of extras out for it, but I
find it uses up too much CPU compared to Safari and
isn't as quick.
Bookit
from Everyday Software is another sort of syncing. It
allows you to sync your bookmarks between multiple
browsers as well as using .Mac to sync with other
machines on the internet.
"With
all the browsers available for the Mac OS keeping your
bookmarks organized can become a real problem. But with
Bookit keeping your browsers' bookmarks synchronized is
quick and easy. Bookit compares the bookmarks you have
and then lets you synchronize the bookmarks that are
not in all of your browsers. Finally, Bookit creates
identical bookmark files for each browser. If you use
more than one browser regularly, give Bookit a try,
you'll wonder how you ever lived without it.
With Bookit you can combine bookmarks from multiple
computers using built-in
.Mac support"
That's it for now, in part 2 I'll explain another way
to keep your bookmarks in sync, for free.
Important Office Update
If you're running
Microsoft Office 2004
on your Mac, then you'd better go download the
latest
update
released today.
It fixes various vulnerabilities etc, and you really
don't want any Microsoft vulnerabilities on your Mac
now do you?
More Gat a Mac
That PC guy makes you want to say "bless".
Just kickin' it
Google Video
http://video.google.com/playerdownload_mac.html
Add it to your collection of video players.