A quiet month..?

I was just about to write about how fast the month is going, and that I should be getting some feedback from Pixmania shortly about the Nexus One, when I remembered this was the month Steve Jobs passed away.

This was something I had been expecting for quite a while, so it wasn't a shock, but like many who had no first hand knowledge of him, one felt a certain natural sadness. There has been so much raking up of one's own memories on the various Mac podcasts that I gave up listening to many of them. Suffice it to say, that my first Mac was one of those weird little grey portables, the Classic I believe, next was the 2SE I used when starting my own business. That still exists down in my storeroom. It works, but I loaned the keyboard to my daughter, Susan, and its somewhere amongst their pile of belongings.

A number of years passed in my DIY PC overclocking phase, when I really wasted so much time with Gentoo with ID: Cintra. I learned a lot about Linux, which must have helped my brain develop some neurons, but it has pretty much faded away now. (use it or lose it!)

When Susan started her own design business using one of the 20" iMacs I was attracted by the style, and the fabulous screen resolution. I bought my own and just fell into the Mac way again so easily. :)

A while later I bought the first MB AIR and a year or two later a new 21.5" iMac, a really fast machine. It has been updated and backed up regularly since then, and is now at the latest LION version, as are all three Macs.

My network consists of an Airport Extreme with two Expresses used mainly with Airplay/Airfoil connected to the Sony stereo unit in the 'stue'.

Thats enough of my Mac history, other than to say that the urge to buy a new iMac, iPad, or iPhone 4S has to be constantly supressed ;)

Firefox and Dropbox sync

I was surfing the Dropbox forum posts the other day, and came across an interesting one in which one could set up a Firefox 3 profile on Dropbox/Profiles (iMac's) and sync not only the two Macs, but also XP once it was updated to FF3 :)

It works well.. I also use Dropbox after downloading an XP app on the Mac, so its ready on the PC when next its booted up.

Mindnode and Evernote

I came across Mindnode on Cool OSX apps a few days ago, and was immediately taken with its ease of adding nodes. More so when I found you could have multiple nodes on a page, and export in Freemind and PDF formats... this allows import into Evernote, which has now been updated to allow just that, as well as having a new icon layout.

So, each morning I start maps on each machine, and in the evening I can merge the two by a currently copy&paste method only. However both are filling my current needs for noting things of interest, use, you name it.

A while since

The fine summer weather has been taking priority over surfing and solving problems these last few days.. not sure if I clarified what was going on with the iChat and Syncopation issues, but after a lot of searching I came across a guy who clearly knows about security - securiosis blog - and he had analyzed the Leopard firewall back in November and some of what he found was what I have been experiencing.

Using the 'access to services and apps' mode, if the app changes in any way then it will fall out of being accepted without saying, eg like Syncopation. iChat is a weirdo... I have it set to open at login on both machines, but it needs to be quit & reopened, and then 'accept network connections' for screen sharing to work. I'm not sure if that applies only on bootup or also after sleep..

I tried using Patriot on the suggestion by 'Ralph', but that really screwed up and I had to restore from a SuperDuper backup an hour earlier :) Still I learnt about Patriot, which allows you to select from Apple CD contents and install just what you want.

The Great Synchronization Forum Thread

just a quickie from GR, after reading about the new 'share with note' feature, and this Forklift future is interesting too :)

 

 

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The Great Synchronization Forum Thread

via Binarynights blog by csaba on 5/5/08

Hello Guys and Girls,

It has been obvious to us, that the most needed and asked-for feature in ForkLift is the possibility to synchronize folders.
We are now happy to announce that we have started development of our synch module.
As we want to make this the best damn synchronization tool that ever was, we are asking You, our Esteemed User, for input on what you would expect from such a tool. To this end, we are now launching this new thread in our user forum, and encourage you to make yourself heard.

What we are looking for most, is descriptions of the tasks where you need to use a synchronization tool; and your ideas about how you would expect to manage the workflow of these tasks. We would like this to be a very open and active discussion, one that we hope will result in a tool worthy of the general excellence of ForkLift.

We will hear out any ideas, however weird they may seem You are welcome to post screenshots, diagrams, filelists, links, anything useful to this discussion.

Thanks for contributing

BinaryNights

 

 

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