When I don’t have any place better to put it
Seems like video is the new black in the WO community this week with the Ajax.framework from Project Wonder taking front billing.
Mike Schrag has posted a short video showing how to create and Ajaxify a new WebObjects app demonstrating some of the new features coming to WOLips.
John Larson has posted a YouTube video of some of the stuff he’s done leveraging the Ajax.framework.
It looks like Shirt Pocket is planning on releasing a Leopard compatible version of SuperDuper! tomorrow.
I’ve been using Super Duper! for, like, ever (and therein lies the root of my problem.)
I’ve been using SD! to backup my laptop to an external LaCie drive every night. I’ve been doing this since said laptop was an Aluminum G4. I’ve been doing this since the default partition scheme was “Apple Partition Map”. I’ve been doing this since before I got my MacBook Pro…
I’m sure you can see where this is going.
I took my MBP in for repair yesterday (finally got fed up with the thermal shutdown problem it’s always had). No problem I thought – the warm and fuzzy feeling that having a recent SD! backup gives you in full effect. I’ll just boot the new Mac Mini (Core 2 Duo) I bought for the living room off my backup and keep working until the MBP is back.
Uh, no.
Of course the Mac Mini wouldn’t boot from the backup drive (remember that old partition scheme?) OK, time to clone it to another drive… 3 hrs later and 96% of the way through the clone the destination drive dies. OK, try again, different drive, 2 1/2 hours later, the clone is complete (Yay!) but the clone is un-bootable (Boo!).
So, I re-installed Leopard on the destination drive and started to migrate from the backup… Estimated time to completion? ~5 hrs (at which point I gave up).
In case your are keeping track, that equates to an entire day wasted.
2 hrs later while shopping at the mall (and just around the corner from the Apple Store) my cell phone rings. It’s the Apple Store technician, my MBP is ready (Hooray for Pro Care!)
Lesson learned? Always. Test. Your. Backups. Warm and fuzzy feelings don’t actually mean your are safe. Trust, but verify.
Kol. Panic over at Voodoo Ergonomics just launched the project he’s been mumbling about for years.
All that R&D finally paid off in a slick little app called Mojotones. Mojotones makes it easy to create ringtones from any track in your iTunes library and (just as easy) to move them to your bluetooth equipped cell phone.
You can read the details here.
If you use Colloquy.
And, You get a persistent blank window when you join an IRC channel.
Then type /reload style while in the channel.