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My new love of the week- CrashPlan.com

Friday, May 22nd, 2009

About 3 months ago, my Mac did the impossible.  It crashed.  I don’t think my wife has forgiven me for some pictures of hers that are sitting on a crashed HD on the shelf.  I had the idea in my head that Macs don’t do those things.  I have since forgiven my iMac for doing that to me.  She has been pretty good.  About 4 months before the crash I stopped using Mozy.com for my automatic online backup.  I did it for a few reasons.   picture 2 My new love of the week  CrashPlan.com

1. It felt like my data was going into some magical land that I could only imagine.

2. I couldn’t put a face or impression in my mind of where it was going.

3. Tonz of other competitors were sprucing up and they had some cool features.

Don’t get me wrong, I liked Mozy.  They were my first love.  People always remember their first loves don’t they?

Now I’m onto my next love and this one is here to stay.  Her name is CrashPlan.com .

CrashPlan is pretty insane.  You can actually see where there storage is.  Pictures do a lot for me. At least I can beleive that those pics are legit.  They have the yearly option which is what I like.  They also let you have a free 30 days.  Hopefully I can back up what I want before that time is up!  Here’s the killer part that I think has it’s pros and cons.  You can back up your files to a friends machine…. it’s much faster and you can retrieve your info faster if it ever crashed.  While I don’t know that firends have enough space to be willing to “lend” the idea is still creative and provides an option to those who would actually do it.

Anyways don’t judge the pic I put up when it says 3.1 months remaining.  That number changes all the time.  At nights my upload speed is over 1000% faster on my settings.

Camtasia now on Macs?

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

The leader in screen capture software- Camtasia by TechSmith has finally released a beta for Mac. This is long awaited. I have used the PC version. The PC version is great but I hadly ever use my PC. I’m a Mac guy hard core.

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So what does Camtasia do?

1. Records what you are doing on your computer. You can do demos, tutorials, or powerpoint shows all with audio as well.

2. Produce the works into whatever format you need thats compatitble.

3. View it in many forms.

 

Go ahead and get your free beta. I will be testing it more this week.

Using A Flip On A Mac

Saturday, May 17th, 2008

We have a Flip. We love using it. We have a digital camera as do most people. However, we never use the movie feature on the Digital camera. Who does? So that’s where the Flip comes in. Point and click. Recently the video from the flip wouldn’t transfer into Quicktime or any media player format. We had the same issue with my Dad and brother in law’s flips. They are Mac guys too. I found and downloaded Perian and it worked like a charm. Also, this is free…. Not sure why it stopped in the first place, but it works now. Quicktime most likely did an update that stopped the sound from Flips.