A weekly talk show ruminating on exactly what is wrong in the world of Apple and related technologies and businesses. Nothing is so perfect that it can't be complained about. Hosted by John Siracusa & Dan Benjamin.
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Episode 3: 3: The Mouse is Not a Finger
John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin do some follow-up on the topic of backups, then talk about possible motivations behind the Mac OS X Lion features Apple has revealed so far, the future of desktop computing, and what might have caused iPhoto '11 to be worse than the previous version.
Links for this episode:
- StorageReview.com: a great place to research hard disk mechanisms before buying
- CrashPlan: another popular personal backup service
- Arq: an S3-backed, extremely Mac-savvy backup product
- PGP Whole Disk Encryption
- Apple's preview of Mac OS X Lion, October 20, 2010 (starts at 52:55)
- The Incomparable: a geeky podcast sometimes featuring John Siracusa
- Backup Bouncer: a Mac backup robustness test suite
- Bonus link! Dolly Drive: Time Machine in the cloud
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