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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.