Panic software release a minor update to my favorite FTP client, Transmit. The Transmit 3.6.4 change log contains just under two dozen items listed as fixes and changes. For me, it’s the changes to S3 that are most welcome. While the last update made it usable with Amazon S3 for me, it would still be annoying at times. This release is less annoying. The Amazon S3 related changes are: 1. Transmit no longer stalls the UI when deleting files in S32. No longer have to manually refresh to make deleted [...] Read the rest »
Mac BitTorrent Client: Transmission
Fedora 8 was released recently and I wanted to download a copy. With a DVD size of over 3GB bittorrent was the way to go. I’d used Azureus in the past, but hadn’t re-installed it after upgrading to Leopard. I decided to change up and go with something new. Azureus was moving heavily toward video and had the interface to prove it. I wanted a simple client that would just download files. I went with the popular Transmission open source bittorrent client. The Mac version is a universal binary. The [...] Read the rest »
Superduper! Adds To The Frustrating Journey
The last couple of days have provided several reminders of why the tag line for this blog is “A Frustrating Journey” and Superduper! was one of them. Superduper! is Mac disk cloning software that I wrote about recently and use for my backups. Since writing that I’ve had a couple of problems with Superduper!, the most recent occurred at the same time as I was dealing with my IE problems so it took me awhile to look into it. The first occurrence was a little over a week ago when [...] Read the rest »
Superduper!: Disk Cloning/Backup For Mac
I’d purchased and used Superduper! with my Mac Mini but when I moved to the iMac I stopped using it. I had used it as a cloner and I didn’t really want to do clones as my primary backup anymore (so I thought) so I switched to Apple Backup. Apple Backup has it’s falts (that’s a different story so see my Apple Backup post) so I decided to give Superduper! another spin for doing backups. I don’t remember if I ever used Superduper! on my iMac but it was already [...] Read the rest »
Google Desktop For Mac Released
Google released Google Desktop for the Mac this past Tuesday and it piqued my interest. The first question is why would I want Google desktop when I have Spotlight? The immediate answers to that are: easily repeat a search on the Internet after doing a desktop search include a GMail account in the index (but only one mailbox) search and recover deleted documents browser history in the index some other reason that will only be apparent after using it Any e-mail client with a spotlight plugin can also be included [...] Read the rest »
