Take Control of Easy Backups in Leopard
Company: TidBits TakeControl Ebooks
Price: $10.00
83 pages
http://www.takecontrolbooks.com/
Joe Kissell is at it again; this time with an ebook entitled “Take Control of Easy Backups in Leopard” designed to make the practice of backing up your Mac an easy-to-do experience. The three most important points that I see that he brings to the table are: Continue reading »
• Use Time Machine or another backup program to store archives
of your files
• Create a bootable duplicate of your startup volume and update it
regularly.
• Keep at least one backup copy of your important data
somewhere safely away from your computer.
Canon Pixma iP4500
Company: Canon
Price: € 77,75 (at amazon.de)
http://www.canon.de
Canon labels the Pixma iP4500 as a premium photo and document printer, and when I bought it in early January my main purchasing criteria was high quality photo prints and the ability to print on DVDs and CDs.
I don’t know why but with iPhoto 08 Apple made what was an easy printing process into something complicated. Straight forward printing is still easy, but doing something like fitting a large image into a size is a mystery-unless you have some help. This Macspiration will help solve some of those mysteries.
Choosing to print an image in iPhoto 08 presents you with the screen below. It is pretty straight forward. You choose what you want to print and print. Then you get sent to the standard print window. One thing to note here is the standard 8×10 photo size is missing from the print sizes. You have to create that and other missing sizes from the “Custom” option in that pull down menu.
2.1 Stereo Tower
Company: mStation
Price: $300 US (modest discounts are available online)
http://store.mstation.com/products/2-1-stereo-tower
When I asked a father-daughter guest listening panel to evaluate mStation’s impressive 2.1 Stereo Tower, Gordon, the dad, asked me “Is it as heavy as it looks, John.” Yes, I answered. Then Evee, the teenage daughter, asked me “Why does it look so weird?”
Gordon thought the Tower’s “nifty look” and “nice, tight footprint” were designed to make a strong statement in a living room or family media den. He predicted this one-piece jumbo speaker unit will sound best when positioned at a 45 degree angle to an uncrowded corner in a room, for optimum sound and projection.
Stereo separation is minimal with tweeters located only inches from one another. You can twist the tweeters and experiment. Treble high-end range is extensive, and the downward-blasting subwoofer provides potent bass. Gordon suggested mStation’s v.2 of this product should add extra tweeter speakers right and left, and/or include a high-quality midrange speaker in the black central cabinet column. I’m not sure about having more tweeters, but a midrange speaker will definitely help.
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iPhone data recovery service
DriveSavers
http://www.drivesavers.com
800-440-1904
DriveSavers is possibly the best-known name in the personal computer data recovery business. The firm recently announced that it now provides data recovery for damaged Apple iPhones.
Being both a happy iPhone owner, and a curious Mymac.com reviewer, I wanted to learn more. Why would anyone need data recovery, when the iPhone syncs each time you dock it with your Mac?
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Bella, Divo, IceSuit, Metro, and Sportivo cases for iPod nano (3rd Generation)
Company: Macally
Price: Bella $29.99, Divo $29.99, IceSuit $19.99, Metro $29.99, Sportivo $29.99
http://www.macally.com/
The holiday decorations are put away, Macworld is over, and now it’s time to get down to buying a case for that new iPod nano that Santa left under the tree. December 2007 saw the arrival of Macally’s family of cases for the iPod nano: Bella, Divo, IceSuit, Metro, and Sportivo. Mirage and Masquerade were not yet available for review.
A Designer’s Guide to Adobe InDesign and XML
James J. Maivald with Cathy Palmer
Publisher: Peachpit
Price: $44.99
ISBN: 978-0-321-50355-8
336 pages
In an effort to get to market faster, many corporations are adopting content management systems to store and re-use content created by marketing, technical publications, and other organizations. Why do it all over again when with some advanced planning, you can reuse this content for manuals, web sites (both promotion and user support), packaging, advertising, etc. The glue that holds all of this together is XML.
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Adobe Type Library: Reference Book
by Adobe Systems Inc.
Publisher: Peachpit
ISBN: 978-0-321-54472-8
Price: $44.99 US, $48.99 Canada, and £31.99 UK
Page Count: 354
The printed catalog of the contents of the Adobe Font Folio CD, and definitive reference guide to Adobe font technology.
This is the third edition of the Adobe Type Library: Reference Book–a very clever way to get you to spend an additional 45 bucks after you have paid anywhere from $2,600 to $9,000, depending upon the number of user licenses, for the Adobe Font Folio 11 CD.
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CrashPlan–Backup Solution for Macintosh
Company: Code 42
Price: Standard version $20, Pro version $60 (client software only).
For remote data storage, up to 50GB for $5/month; additional $0.10/month per GB of data over 50GB
(storage is free if using a friend’s computer as the remote destination).
http://www.crashplan.com
Let’s get this out of the way immediately: Using the word “crash” in the name of a backup solution for your critical data is bound to bring on a serious case of bad karma. So I salute the Code 42 folks for having the chutzpah to tell it like it is when it came to bestowing a name on their ingenious backup software.
CrashPlan is a powerful, inexpensive and easy to use backup solution that runs on Mac, Windows, and even Linux. While it most closely resembles offsite backup services like BackJack or Mozy, in that it moves data to a remote location as opposed to a local hard drive or tape backup, the real beauty of CrashPlan is that it allows you to choose the remote location, which can be any Macintosh, Windows or Linux computer that a) the owner of said computer (presumably a friend/family member/poker buddy) allows you to access, and b) has enough free space to back up your stuff. In fact, the Code 42 folks actually encourage this; apparently they’re happy just selling you the client software, even though they do offer storage space at their data facility.
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Not only can you use your Mom’s PC as a backup destination, but thanks to CrashPlan’s ultra-friendly invitation options, you might not even need to call her to ask!
Fantom Drives GForce MegaDisk NAS (MDN1000)
Company: Fantom Drives
Price: $369.95
http://www.fantomdrives.com
I really, really wanted to like this little box. Readers of a previous blog know that I have used NAS (Network Attached Storage) devices in the past and love the concept, if not always the execution. The Fantom GForce MegaDisk NAS from MicroNet is no exception.
The idea is that a NAS device securely sits out on your network and makes itself available to anyone authorized to use the network. Typical applications for a NAS include a central backup system, iTunes server, movie server, shared file server, and so on. This is a file server (and more) for the rest of us…or is it? Keep reading.
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Total Leopard Superguide ebook
Macworld.com
http://www.macworld.com/superguide/leopard/
$12.95 downloadable ebook PDF
$15.00 PDF on CD-ROM via mail
$24.95 printed
Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard has been out long enough for various help books to hit the stores. My current favorite tome is David Pogue’s Mac OS X Leopard: The Missing Manual.
Various web sites have been filling cyberspace with Leopard hints, tips and tricks.
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It has been a while since I’ve done a Macspiration recommending downloads. To be honest, I haven’t found to many worthwhile freebies for an article. With that said, I have scrounged around my hard drive and found a hand full of downloads for you.
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Fluid
Fluid is a Leopard only app, and is very interesting. I didn’t think it was useful, but the more I use it the more I am hooked. Fluid is a beta program that will take a link to a website and make it an app. For example, instead of having a bookmark for Google Docs or even a link in your Dock to the site, Fluid takes the link and turns it into an app. Essentially, a Safari-like window opens, but only for that link. I know it sounds like a bookmark, but I have been using it for several sites I regularly use at work, and I am hooked.
The Glossary of Digital Photography
By John G. Blair
Published: Rockynook
ISBN 978-1-93395-04-8
Paperback, 311 pages, $39.95
Take Your Photography to the Next Level
By George Barr
Published: Rockynook
ISBN 978-1-933952-21-5
Paperback, 199 pages, $43.95
With so many people shooting with digital cameras these days, and discovering and renewing their interest in photography, it’s great to see publishers like Rocynook producing a such a fine line of books on the subject.
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The times, they are a’changing… I remember those lyrics quite well. Change is good, especially if things run quicker and smoother…
Back in 1998, I purchased a used PowerBook 520c for a few hundred as a laptop that I could take along on business trips or wherever, just to keep writing when I had some down time. (That was back in the days when I really spent a lot of time working on My Mac, like every day.) The PowerBook 520c featured a blazing fast 25 MHz 68LC040 processor, 36 MB of RAM, a 240 MB hard drive in a grey portable case with a 9.5″ color dual-scan display. The PowerBook 500 series was the first line of PowerBooks to have a “trackpad” that made it seen somehow revolutionary.
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