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  • It’s World Backup Day, are you backing up?

    It’s World Backup Day, are you backing up?

    It’s World Backup Day today, and every March 31st. The idea is to remind people to back up their stuff, because it’s horrible to loose your precious data.

    People don’t backup their data because it’s hard. Companies like Apple are trying to solve that with automatic backups to their respective cloud services, and that’s great. It’s gotten a lot easier to backup photos in particular over the years.

    I have several layers of backups.

    • All iOS devices backup to iCloud.
    • I have a Time Capsule in the office that backups up my Macs whenever they’re there.
    • I also have a Time Capsule at home, doing the same thing. Redundancy!
    • Most workfiles live in Dropbox and/or iCloud Drive. That means that they sync and that I get version control over them. It’s not a backup per se, but it’s an extra layer of protection.
    • My Macs all backup off-site using BackBlaze (use my referral link if you want to give it a go, that’ll get me free months).
    • I have a FTP server where I upload all my photos on a monthly basis, just in case.

    Despite all this, I still feel I should be doing more about backup. My mobile devices in particular feel vulnerable, because although iCloud restores (and synchronisation) have yet to fail me, it’s often the only layer of backup safety I have there. I’m looking to get a wifi disk and a couple of those Lightning USB sticks to do sanity backups.

    Also, it’s worth repeating that synchronisation is not a backup. If you have all your files in Dropbox and someone gets access to them, deletes them, then they’re gone. The 30 day versioning feature makes it possible to restore lost files within Dropbox, but that only helps if you know that you’ve lost a file. Synchronisation services such as Dropbox are great, but they are not backups.

    Backup. Even Ray Spass does it.

  • Telia har börjat med iCloud-adresser

    Se nedan, väldigt modernt och hippt av Telia att slopa telia.se och köra med Apples icloud.com för sina e-postadresser istället.

    Telia kör iCloud (spam)

    Och ja, det här är självfallet klumpig spam. Gå inte på den, kolla alltid vem som mejlat, och använd sunt förnuft när du får konstigheter i din inkorg.

  • WWDC 2013 Post Mortem

    iOS 7

    I’ve been having a rough couple of days, which is why I haven’t followed up on my WWDC predictions until now. All in all I think I did alright. I was surprised that the MacBook Pro line didn’t even get a speed bump, but the Air got a nice upgrade at least.

    What else? Let’s take this in bullet form.  (more…)

  • Fearing iCloud

    Fearing iCloud

    I’m among the few who think that Apple’s iCloud is doing a pretty good job. Sure, I would like a better overview of my content, and some apps have trouble syncing, but since there are apps that just plain work, I tend to think that this isn’t actually iCloud’s fault. Maybe it’s hard to develop apps that use iCloud, and perhaps it’s unnecessary so. Maybe the apps that work well with iCloud are just made of better stuff. I don’t know and frankly, I don’t care at this point.

    It’s over a year ago since I stopped using Simplenote, instead relying on Apple’s stock Notes.app. It’s not as pretty as Simplenote, and I’m not as organized perhaps, but since I process all my notes on a regular basis I found out that Notes.app did its thing. The iCloud sync gives me access to all my notes, on both iOS and OS X. Simplenote did that too, but I just don’t see the reason for additional apps on both iOS and OS X. And Notes.app just works, thanks to iCloud.

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  • Starting Fresh

    I feel like buying a new laptop. Not that I really need one, my 11″ MacBook Air is working perfectly well and I’m happy with it (for now), but I still feel like buying a new one. I passed on the current generation, so I’m getting the next one no matter what, but it is months – MONTHS, I SAY! – away.

    And I want a new laptop.

    Why?

    Not because I want new stuff really, no it is the matter of the clean start. I always start from scratch with every computer, only installing the apps I end up actually missing. I’ll write more on that philosophy later, for now all you need to know is that’s what I do. Incidentally I do the same with iOS devices too, starting fresh.

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  • Tre tankar om Mountain Lion

    Jag vet, jag är sen till diskussionen, första punktsläppet till Mountain Lion är redan på beta 2 så det här är gamla nyheter. Fast inte för mig, för när Mountain Lion släpptes (och ni gnälled om installationstider på timmen) så satt jag och mådde bra vid en sjö i skogen. Inte längre dock, så nu kör jag Mountain Lion på min Air, men fortfarande Lion på såväl Mac mini-servern som MacBook Pron och iMacen.

    Så, tre tankar om Mountain Lion.

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  • iCloud är nästan vad jag ville ha

    Apple sade en väldig massa intressant när WWDC slog upp portarna idag. Jag är peppad för Lion, nästa version av OS X som inte ens distribueras på skiva utan bara kan köpas från Mac App Store för futtiga $29, och förstås för alla nyheter i iOS 5 – två saker jag tveklöst får anledning att återkomma till.

    Men störst är iCloud, ersättaren till MobileMe. Och tjänsten är gratis. (more…)