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Delicious Library plugin for Backup 3

Paul Westbrook | 20 September, 2005 17:25

This is pretty cool.  Delicious has released a Backup 3 plugin for Delicious Library.  This allows users to automatically backup the files that are created by Library, without having to know the fill paths to the files.

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Bug with new .Mac iDisk

Paul Westbrook | 20 September, 2005 17:18

I have paid for 1Gb of space on my iDisk before the upgrade of everyone to have 1GB of space.  I was a little worried that I would be credited for the extra money that I paid for the space.  When I checked the .Mac preference pane, It said that I only had 1GB of space available.

When I went on to the .Mac page, and viewed my Storage settings, it had additional options to allow up to 2GB of space available.  (Unfortunately, the current selection was on the option that gave the greatest space to my iDisk.)  I easily fixed that problem, by selecting a different setting, and then reselecting the largest setting.

Now it appears that I have the whole 2GB available.  There a small cosmetic bug though.  In the .Mac Preference Pane, it shows the maximum space as 1GB, even though the middle of the bar represents 1016 MB.

Idisk Bug

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Bad domain advertising

Paul Westbrook | 20 September, 2005 15:38

I use GoDaddy to register my domains.  I got an email from them stating that they are having a sale on .name domains, for $5.95 per year.  In their form email, they state:

Now you can put www.westbrook.name On the ‛Net

Westbrook Name Offer

I thought that it would be cool to get that domain, so I went on their site to attempt to register it.  When I tried, I got a message stating that the domain is already been taken.
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Backup 3

Paul Westbrook | 20 September, 2005 11:15

Backup3 Logo-1Apple just updated the .Mac, as well as the version of Backup.  I have just run the new version of Backup, and I like the the changes that they made.

Now Backup 3, has backup plans for more types of files, like purchased music, and other iLife files.  Also now when you backup files to your iDisk, Backup creates a local disk image, and then it copies the files to this mounted disk image.  Then it compresses the image, and uploads this to your iDisk.

This improves the time that backup takes, as it only has to copy one compressed file, instead of tons of uncompressed files.  The one downside of this mechanism is that if the disk image gets corrupt on the iDisk, most likely all of the files will be unrecoverable.

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