Just got my new drive

I just got my new 750GB hard drive today that will be replacing the 500GB at home currently used for Time Machine. Once I have a good new backup with Time Machine I'll set up CrashPlan to use the 500GB and start seeing how that works plus have a good off site backup, which is always a good thing.

Revisiting CrashPlan

I'll be revisiting my CrashPlan system again.  I never finished reviewing it before because nobody I spoke with around me would get excited about it.  They have a couple new features that I really like.  Firstly for initial backup it should be really quick because they now support doing your initial full backup locally to a USB hard drive.  I ordered one so I will be doing that when it arrives and then taking the USB drive off-site then setting up the WAN backup to it.  I'll create a new post when that happens.  New Egg usually ships pretty quick so I'm guessing mid next week.

Dropbox Impressions

OK, I've been waiting for my chance to try out Dropbox from the first moment I saw their presentation video on their website. I got my beta invitation a few days ago and I've been actively playing with it since.

I'm in love with this system.  I've used services such as Foldershare in the past, but just haven't been very happy with it overall.  I have multiple Macs and the Foldershare client hasn't been updated since...forever and it just doesn't work very well on my new iMac at home. 

Dropbox runs awesome on both my Intel iMac and my G4 powered iBook as well as running very smooth on both my Windows XP and Windows Vista boxes, even Vista 64 has no issues.  They really are not kidding when they say that their system is fast.  Obviously when adding a new computer to sync it has to download everything off the system intially but just doing your day to day stuff is extremely quick and not really even noticable that it's doing anything.

I actually don't have anything negative to say at all about Dropbox right now.  The beta accounts are limited to 2GB of storage in your Dropbox but they said that they will have larger paid plans later.  I just hope they are reasonably priced because I want to continue to use this after beta and might need more than 2GB by then.

Here is a screenshot of the little Dropbox icon running in the system tray on Vista x64


I don't have access to my home Mac right now but it's the same icon in the top bar.

When you right click you get a small menu:


When you Open my Dropbx you get the folder list of files you have there, like so:

So anyway.  That's my initial writeup.  Please let me know what you think in the comments below or on FriendFeed.

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Dropbox Invite

I just got my Dropbox private beta invite. I will start evaluation very soon and write more details later.

Mac OS X Leopard 10.5.4 is now out.

Apple today released version 10.5.4 of Leopard. Some of the improvements included this time around include stuff for Airport, iCal, Safari and Spaces. Of course, there are always a bunch of other fixes too.

You can get all the details at the following official site:

About the Mac OS X 10.5.4 update

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