Archive for July, 2009

One week offline

I am leaving tomorrow for MacMania 9 (http://www.insightcruises.com/top_d/mm09_top.html), so I will probably not post for the coming 10 days or so. I really wanted to post an application review before leaving, but my Macbook Pro decided to die tonight, so I’m just writing this short message from my iPhone.
Apologies and talk to you soon, hopefully [...]

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Tagging Tools

Quick (and non-exhaustive) list of tools that I use to tag various system objects

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Tags vs Folders

Many of the tools that I use everyday are based on tags, or integrate tags in some ways. In the upcoming posts, I plan to review and describe how these tools are part of my workflow, so it is a good idea to explain why a tag-based system is superior to a classical tree structure.
The [...]

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Backup Strategy

You do have one, haven’t you? If you don’t, you might find what follows interesting. I will describe my own backup strategy, which is probably an overkill for most users’ needs, but will give you an idea of some available options and the corresponding “recovery time”. I mention the recovery time because for me it’s [...]

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