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I've been looking forward to this for a long time now. SuperDuper, of course, is the outstanding backup software for Macs and this release offers compatibility with OS X Leopard. It's not free, sadly, but it's one of those apps that is far enough ahead of its free counterparts that I believe it's worth paying for. Yeah, I know Leopard ships with TimeMachine. Wonderful. Fantastic. Not good enough. Doesn't work for me.
I don't mean that it literally doesn't work for me. It probably functions just fine. My problem with it is that TimeMachine forces me to park a big ol' external hard drive on my desk and hard-wire it to my machine.
I keep trying to leave Firefox behind. And trying. And trying. Not behind, behind like feathered hair or roadkill, but behind as in dropping it as my primary browser. I haven't had much luck so far and it's pissing me off just a little bit. This I tell you this now because I just installed 3.0 b2 on my Mac hoping it would be better than 2.x and my bitterness is a bit more acute at the moment. Needless to say, it's not better. Not really, anyway. It doesn't even look that much better. I may even prefer the look of 2.x with one of Aronnax's outstanding grApple themes applied, to be honest.
As a long time Windows user, one of my frustrations has always been the lack of a decent date/time display. When I transitioned to the Mac a few months ago, I hoped that particular frustration would be alleviated. Although it was better, it still wasn't all it should be, in my mind.
A few weeks ago, I just got fed up with the display on my Windows machine and I went on a serious hunt for a better system clock. I found one that was close, but not quite good enough. I'll have to carry on with the paltry OS implementation. On the periphery of that search, though, I ran across a replacement for the OS X system clock that looked pretty solid so I decided to install it.
I don't know where I've been hiding, but I only heard about Wesabe a few days ago and it looks really interesting. I don't know much right now. Hell, I know anything (or damn close to it). I don't even know how long they've been around.
Any input or experience would be appreciated. I'm thinking about giving it a try...
I don't know whether it's something I'm missing or something extra that I have, but I can never, and I mean never, remember the order of arguments when I need to create a new cron job.
With CronniX, this is no longer a problem.
