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ClickToFlash = best thing ever.

I would like to thank you from the bottom of my heart for making me aware of ClickToFlash's existence

About to upgrade to CS4, you guys are scaring me

Either don't bother, or keep both around. I have both but am still using CS3.

Good luck with CS4 here, but I'm mainly using InDesign

photoshop cs4 has been okay for me. dreamweaver cs4 (which I have to use for some clients who insist on using contribute and shit) is fucking awful, the thing crashes all the time.

Always avoided Dreamweaver, the interface was just too complex. I'm using Coda which is great, even though there are some simple things I should be able to do (sort remote folders by date modified, code folding) that I can't yet do.

which I have to use for some clients who insist on using contribute and shit

i imagine you mean shit, literally, shit on the websites you are making, because i cant imagine a scenario where a client wanting to contribute through dreamweaver would be a positive experience for you in any way

from http://bonfx.com/15-top-graphic-design-limericks-for-your-amusement/

A program called Photo the Shopper
Was loaded with menus and slopper
“Just raise the price
to make naughty nice”
But users soon proved this a flopper.

Adobe the Great was a giant
To whom all it’s slaves was defiant:
“While charging more price,
I’ll make things less nice!”
And to this day all are compliant.

In Dreamweaver there was a bug,
But Adobe was silently smug.
“Pretend it’s not there!”
Said support with no care,
And swept the bug under the rug!

etc

Adobe the Great was a giant
To whom all it’s slaves was defiant:

grammar glands throbbing

question for Applehedz:

As a PC-person looking to pick up a Mac to do more music nonsense, what would you recommend I look at and how much should I budget for it? (Assume I'm running something equivalent to Reason and that I am hoping to attach a MIDI keyboard to it.)

13-inch macbook pro is very portable, has firewire, is awesome.. if your budget can handle it and you won't be moving it around you might consider a real-daddy mac pro tower which has throughput and customization up the wazoo

What type of budget are we talking here? I could MAYBE do $2500 but $5K is gonna be a nonstarter.

Mac Pro starts at $2500, and I'd add RAM and a bigger/additional HD if you're going to blow it out that much. If it doesn't need to be a portable machine, the 27" quad-core iMac looks really nice for $2K. 4GB RAM, 1TB HD.

protip: keep checking the refurb section of the online store for good deals. apple refurbs are handchecked by apple and almost always come in like new condition

You don't really need the power/expandability of a Mac Pro to do music nonsense, an iMac will probably do the job, as long as you can get a big enough HD and upgrade the RAM

yeah a mac pro is waaaaaay overkill. if you've got a display, just max a mini

my Mac Pro is AWESOME. Talk about overkill, I just bought 1 more hard-drive then actually fits.

I'm using Coda which is great, even though there are some simple things I should be able to do (sort remote folders by date modified, code folding) that I can't yet do.

I'm a pretty heavy Coda user and all rumors (and by this I mean chatter on the Coda discussion list) point to Coda 2 having both of these.

I don't know what I'm doing. I had 3 hard drives. 300 gig drive with system and applications, 500 gig drive with all my data (300 gigs of which is my iTunes library) and a 1 TB drive for Time Machine.

I bought 2 500 gig drives real cheap thinking I had one more bay than I do. The plan was to have 1 500 gig to make nightly clones of my system/apps drive for a rock solid easy way to boot if my main system disk goes, then take the other 500 gig drive and put my music collection on it, so I'd have 1 500 gig for "data" and another for my iTunes library, and both of those would back up to my 1 TB Time Machine.

Now I can only put one more 500 gig drive in, which means I'll have the 300 gig system, 500 gig files and 500 gig iTunes library, and that's obviously more then 1 TB. Of course my plan is to never fill those drives. Will this make Time Machine explode? Should I return the extra 500 gig and upgrade my 1 TB to a 2 TB? Should I get one of those cheap SATA docks and clone my system disk to that?

Part of why I was doing this is because the initial 500 gig drive is getting filled up, but also because I heard it can be a pain to start up again after a crash with only Time Machine and that's why people still use Super Duper, but the more I read about it, it sounds like no big deal.

after using Time Machine I don't really have any desire to go back to Super Duper...but I've never had to restore off a Time Machine backup, whereas with it's been super easy to swap disks with Super Duper

i run both. neither does what the other does.

ditto. i actually my 1tb external set to three partitions - 1) time machine 2) bootable clone w/Carbon Copy Cloner (free!) 3) fat32 for windows stuff. This only works, because my main parition is 450gb, and I'm using less than half that atm.

caek OTM.

yeah, i've been meaning to tackle this problem:

i've got a 500 gb external drive for my MBP, that only hosts my iTunes library atm.

i can't fit all my media on the internal HD, but I still want to use Time Machine to back stuff up. what to do?

options:

i) upgrade primary drive so it can fit media. cheaper and easier than you might think.

ii) time machine (and clone) your primary drive, but just clone your media drive. if you have a big enough backup disk then you can put all three (primary time machine, primary bootable clone and media clone) on one disk. that way your media is at least backed up against catastrophic failure (but if you accidentally delete/change a file on it and run the clone, you can't go back to an earlier version)

iii) troll around the internet to see if it's possible to time machine from two source drives to a single time machine disk. i don't think so, but maybe.

my strategy:

i have a big enough primary disk to get everything on there so i have two identical external disks for backup. both of them have a time machine partition and a bootable clone.

i also rsync my ~/astro folder (i.e. my code and work writing) to three countries at the end of the day. key folders within ~/astro are also version controlled. lol paranoia, but when 2012 comes i'm going to be the one doing the lolling my friends.

ii) is kinda putting all your eggs in one basket (well, two baskets, the originals and the copies, but disks fail), so if you can afford it then get two identical backup disks keep one at work or something, and swap them once a week or so.

http://i216.photobucket.com/albums/cc201/tpmunro/RonPaulTinFoilHat2.jpg

p.s. i heard our support trolls referring to the strategy of emailing your thesis to a gmail account as a "girl's backup", which sounds like something out of the profanisaurus.

i fully subscribe to the i) approach. 250GB laptop drives are cheap as chips these days.

i back up everything nightly to a NAS with SuperDuper

i don't really care about Time Machine since the only diff is that it keeps historical version of files, or files I've since deleted, and.. I don't really delete anything now that i've got a honkin 250GB drive

all my music exists only on the NAS which is kind of sketchy but it's a 2-disk RAID 1 array and the chances of both drives failing at once are pretty slim - however this does not help in the event of, say, a house fire

I have one 750 gig external that I time machine too. Then I have another external that I back up media and important docs to periodically and keep at work. I also keep the important documents that I have in drop box.

iii) troll around the internet to see if it's possible to time machine from two source drives to a single time machine disk. i don't think so, but maybe.

I think I'm already doing this. Time Machine backs up everything connected to the computer unless you tell it not to.

I don't think it does so by default (at least I don't remember manually excluding my external pre-TM data drives, USB sticks, etc.), but it certainly looks like you can ask it to include external disks on a per-disk basis, yeah. Score.

there's a company which sells a swapin hard drive bay for MacBooks, so you can have 2 disks in yer laptop , optibay I think it's called. so you could nominally have 1.5tb in yer loltop

don't seem to support the new macbook pro 13" for some reason? Anyway, that's really awesome. They just replace the CD player with a second hard-drive.

Yeah, got a friend who did that. He's happy, but battery life took a hit and the machine runs hotter and a bit noiser

makes sense. What else can they put in there?

A toaster? Professional audio converters?

Leave the space empty to make the computer lighter?

An iPod/iPhone dock?

on the G3 Powerbooks you could take out the entire CD unit and replace it with a battery.

time machine fucking cripples my mac mini. not sure what the problem is. I run it once every two weeks now because if I leave it on, the machine slows to an unusable crawl.

there's some way to edit the rate at which it backs up, I can't remember if it was via terminal or editing some pref file, but I did it so it only backs up once a day, around 3:30 am or something.

http://timesoftware.free.fr/timemachineeditor/

personally i hate leaving the external HD plugged in and on all the time (even if it does hibernate) so i just plug it in every two or so weeks

lol my internal hard drive is doing the death rattle. i give it a week at most.

new 500GB drive due in the mail on tuesday.

i am torn over whether to get external hard drive or whole new computer first. it's time for both really.

Ok, how long until we get an iPhone with a higher res screen? I played with a Droid and that was the only feature I really envied.

I'm a pretty heavy Coda user and all rumors (and by this I mean chatter on the Coda discussion list) point to Coda 2 having both of these.

Yeah, heard the same thing. There are a bunch of plugins that duplicate a lot of useful stuff that BBEdit/Textmate does, but the lack of folding and sorting is a pain in the ass in the meantime. Still, Coda's a great piece of work.

p.s. i heard our support trolls referring to the strategy of emailing your thesis to a gmail account as a "girl's backup"

Ahhh ha ha ha, excellent

New 27" iMac (the i5) is freaking huge and is quite awesome (upgrading from first-gen G5 so anything would seem awesome). Wasn't expecting it to come with the tiny keyboard so swapped that out right away.

yeah, i don't dig that they took the numpad out of those

Ordered a Magic Mouse on the 6th and it still hasn't shipped. Fuckers!

Are they gonna be charging for the Coda upgrade?

Mouse is really good. First impression was totally wrong.