08 Sep 2003 | Levi said...

Also known as Norton Ghost (for Windows). Other life saver apps (for the general public): Spybot.

08 Sep 2003 | Brad Hurley said...

You know, that Carbon Copy Clone is great but you have to be careful if you're transferring your stuff to a G5 -- apparently it doesn't work for that, or so I read somewhere online today.

And I agree about Spybot -- my girlfriend's teenage daughter loaded Kazaa on her computer a while back and bogged down the machine with spyware. I ran Spybot, which found and deleted 41 spyware programs. Sheesh!

09 Sep 2003 | One of several Steves said...

Adaware is also quite effective at finding/eliminating Spybot.

If you have to go the Kazaa route, go with Kazaa Lite, which has the spyware stripped.

Current vital program: eMule. Another file sharing thing, but has a much better method of downloading large files. Plus, most users are in Europe, so I can get access to all those BBC, ITV and Channel 4 shows that never show up in the States, or do show up years later.

09 Sep 2003 | jharr said...

I read this a day to late. Spent 5 hours of a beautiful day to rebuild an iBook. Damn!

09 Sep 2003 | Darrel said...

And if you're getting a new machine these days...consider a mirrored array...or even just a second hard drive that you mirror once a week. It's cheap (

09 Sep 2003 | DrStrangelove said...

TightVNC is another life saving app for remote mucking.

09 Sep 2003 | Chris said...

Does EMACS count ?

09 Sep 2003 | RS said...

no but VIM does :)

(not starting flame war!)

09 Sep 2003 | Don Schenck said...

I wish I had a Macintosh.

10 Sep 2003 | John said...

I loves me some psync. It's great little incremental backup utility for OS X. Powered by perl and driven from the command line.

11 Sep 2003 | jedrek said...

My lifesavers:
UltraVNC - like tight but with better compression + file transfer.
putty and pscp - still the king.

eMule is tops as far as P2P goes right now. I actually use it to get TV shows that won't get here to central europe, for a while (or will be a few years behind when they do get here): CSI, The Simpsons, etc

11 Sep 2003 | mike said...

Mike Bombich rocks!

bombich.com

03 Dec 2003 | posicionamiento en buscadores said...

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10 Jan 2004 | Posicionamiento en buscadores said...

I endeed agree with you

10 Jan 2004 | Regalos said...

yes

17 Jan 2004 | Howell said...

At WWDC, I listened to Apple representatives make some excellent points about taking the time to build a 100%-compliant Aqua application, and I think all developers need to look beyond the code and listen to what the folks at Apple have to say

17 Jan 2004 | Godfrey said...

If an application is designed well, the reward for users is that they will learn it faster, accomplish their daily tasks more easily, and have fewer questions for the help desk. As a developer of a well-designed application, your returns on that investment are more upgrade revenue, reduced tech support, better reviews, less documentation, and higher customer satisfaction. The rewards of building a good-looking Aqua application are worth taking the extra time.

17 Jan 2004 | Drugo said...

For example, if you see an AIM window peeking out from behind your browser and you click on it, that window will come to the front, but the main application window will not. The Mail.app/Activity Viewer is another example. The Aqua system of layers works well in many instances, but not in all. Thank goodness that the Dock is always there to come to the rescue. I know that clicking on an application icon in the Dock will always result in not only the application coming to the front, but also any non-minimized windows associated with it. And if the application is active but no windows are open, clicking on the Dock icon should create a new window in that application.

17 Jan 2004 | Botolph said...

For example, if you see an AIM window peeking out from behind your browser and you click on it, that window will come to the front, but the main application window will not. The Mail.app/Activity Viewer is another example. The Aqua system of layers works well in many instances, but not in all. Thank goodness that the Dock is always there to come to the rescue. I know that clicking on an application icon in the Dock will always result in not only the application coming to the front, but also any non-minimized windows associated with it. And if the application is active but no windows are open, clicking on the Dock icon should create a new window in that application.

17 Jan 2004 | Conrad said...

If an application is designed well, the reward for users is that they will learn it faster, accomplish their daily tasks more easily, and have fewer questions for the help desk. As a developer of a well-designed application, your returns on that investment are more upgrade revenue, reduced tech support, better reviews, less documentation, and higher customer satisfaction. The rewards of building a good-looking Aqua application are worth taking the extra time.