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By: Graybaby

Graybaby — Wed, 09 Aug 2006 21:35:21 +0000

For those of you who recently bought SuperDuper, and appear unhappy about it, you certainly shouldn’t be.

Unless of course you want to wait until spring 2007 to start backing up your system.

Enjoy…………………G

By: Charlie Sorrel

Charlie Sorrel — Wed, 09 Aug 2006 08:07:18 +0000

Nick. I read what the ChatFX guys has to say and you’re right, they’re pretty cool about it.
This is the kind of thing which makes Mac developers so great. Look at Gus Mueller over at VoodooPad, for instance. You just want to pay for their stuff.

Kai:

Very good point on Time Machine. I hadn’t thought of that. Which makes me think that there is maybe some other aspect that might be added to applications?

Eric:

Hey, I bought SuperDuper too. I just mentioned a few of these apps as they have a similar feature set to the new built in stuff. For every Watson there’s a Quicksilver. Remember when (nearly) everyone was sure Spotlight would kill it?

By: Cap'n Hector

Cap'n Hector — Wed, 09 Aug 2006 04:31:05 +0000

It’s not brought up much, but DesktopManager/VirtueDesktop use some hidden APIs Apple built into the OS in Mac OS X 10.3, then left unused outside of 1 Infinite Loop for 10.3 and 10.4.

Rich (The DesktopManager dude) talks about them here: http://www.drunkenblog.com/drunkenblog-archives/000300.html (Search for CGSSetWorkspace).

So sometimes people make cool features, and sometimes Apple uses cool features they put into the OS and other people found. :-)

By: Steve

Steve — Wed, 09 Aug 2006 00:25:54 +0000

As far as Time Machine goes…I believe it when I see it work. I have SuperDuper! too. I thought Apple’s Backup was just awful. It never seemed to ever work. Let’s see if Time Machine works reliably first. Until then, I’m sticking with SD!

By: Eric

Eric — Tue, 08 Aug 2006 23:03:43 +0000

And I just bought SuperDuper! two weeks ago…

By: Kai

Kai — Tue, 08 Aug 2006 22:50:04 +0000

Re: All apps having to support Time Machine – all apps won’t have to support Time Machine for it to be useful, not at all.

All apps that save a file somewhere can be Time Machined by using the Finder to go back and find a past saved document.

Sure, the experience will be nicer if you could browse the contents of the file as you go back, but purely from a backup and restore perspective, as long as you can see the file in the finder, you’ll be able to use Time Machine to go back to a previous state.

By: Nick Santilli

Nick Santilli — Tue, 08 Aug 2006 22:46:36 +0000

Great point with CoverFlow – that hadn’t even occured to me.

And you’re absolutely right, it’s a Developer conference. The rest of us use it as a spring board for all that’s to look forward to, but at the end of the day, it’s for the devs’ benefit.

At least one app you didn’t reference as something that’ll most likely fall by the way-side come Leopard, is ChatFX. They currently do the ‘green screen’ action for video chats with iSight. They comment on the topic here – and are pretty amicable about it. Tough spot to be in, but makes me more likely to follow them in the future with such a good attitude towards software evolution.