Featured Mac Download: Time Machine Over the Network with iTimeMachine
More Time Machine functions. This time for over the air, so I could potentially set up my Mac to back up to a drive connected to my HTPC.
Great app which allows you to create your own droplets. I’ve created two so far, both for rotating an image, and they happen very quickly. Barely any hesitation other than the splash screen warning you about messing with the original of an image. Certainly faster than the PhotoShop droplets I’ve worked with in the past though the newer version of Pshop may have solved that issue without a requirement to load the full Pshop engine to do the work.
Yep is a PDF organizer that mimics the iPhoto interface. I ran into something like this, on the recommendation of a professor, for the PC but had started moving to the Mac. I had considered looking up the PC version and running it through Parallels, but have hesitated to do so. This great, because I can finally start to organize some information I have worked on previously to do the same thing. I still may end up using something like DevonThink to get all of my docs sorted out. But will give this a try before moving onto something that requires $s.
I’m loving Leopard so far. Worked out most of the kinks and have it running as smoothly as possible until HamachiX is updated to Leopard support. Time Machine is the last of the major upgrades I don’t have running, but I’m working on it soon. Maybe this week. Little apps like this can be invaluable. Won’t know until I work with Time Machine as to how often I’ll want the updates, but at least this gives you some great options.
The move to Canada has been an operation in information overflow. I started using KeePassX last summer, but it got lost in the shuffle. Now that Ana and I are both using the Mac for home items, I think we can go to keeping KeePassX on the desktop and all of our data inside.
I absolutely love it when an open-source project jumps on one of Microsoft’s big money makers. A project M$ can’t buy up or run out of business is the best form of competition that exists. And it is available for Mac as well. Don’t have a personal use for it at this time, but will keep it in mind for work efforts down the road.
Right now, I’m in the midst of cleaning up my Mac hard drive. I’m starting to wish I had held out for the larger drive, but that wasn’t the case and I have what I have at the moment. But this utility seems pretty handy if it isn’t a resource hog. Being able to quickly identify files based on size and location for cleanup/backup is a necessity.
Finally having a chance to catch up on some stuff today. A little free time before a hectic afternoon (and possibly evening). Playing with Celestia. Wondering if you could use it to create some short scenes for sci-fi. They also have ships and other items from a range of movies/tv shows. Star Trek for example - http://www.celestiamotherlode.net/catalog/fic_startrek.php
Schoolhouse 2 | The homework manager for Mac.
Nice looking software manager for students. Though, at first glance, it looks exactly like iGTD. The classcast thing looks interesting, though I wonder who else would use it. But maybe faculty at schools with limited access to content management systems would benefit from this.
I’ve worked with VLC before. Excellent free program, but hasn’t been anything groundbreaking. Now, however, they’ve added the server download. This allows you to turn a computer into a media-streaming machine which can play from DVDs, video files or even a TV encoding card.
This might be an excellent method for recasting media from your home machine. I’m lucky enough to have a home-theater PC with a Hauppage 350 digitizer. The only question is, “Where will I watch it?” Not certain I would until this can serve to a mobile phone. But even then I’ll need a nice digital broadband package for my Treo (or an eventual iPhone, after they get it into the next version).
Thus, little help for me. But this is a great tool for faculty to be able to access media for playback. I’m not certain what the licensing for a central server would be, or whether faculty could build their own, but it will certainly happen in the future.