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In the near future, I'm going to be getting a new Mac, and I'm going to want to get Parallels/VMWare on it. It appears that the Mac Super Bundle has Parallels with a bunch of other software for less than Parallels itself. I see ads for these sorts of Mac software bundles from time to time. Is it worth picking up this bundle? Or do I get locked in to some weird alternate-upgrade path for the various software in it?
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# ¿ May 4, 2013 20:25 |
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# ¿ Apr 17, 2024 19:42 |
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I finally took the plunge recently and bought a Mac. I'm currently in the process of transferring my files from my old Windows box to the Mac, and I've generally been able to figure out what I've needed to, but now I've run into a bit of a question: how do I sync wallpapers to my iPhone? On Windows, I used to manage my photo library manually into folders, so I just had a folder for iPhone wallpapers. However, on the Mac I'm wanting to use iPhoto (despite the apparent reams of hate it gets), and it seems kind of wrong to me to put wallpapers there. But is that my only option? Is there anything fancy I can do with Dropbox (which I've poked around in to no success)?
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# ¿ Jun 9, 2013 16:15 |
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Lexicon posted:Speaking of which - Anyone have any idea what the strategic basis of the web version is? Not really like Apple to broaden the reach of its services to, well, Windows users I guess. Ben Thompson has touched on this sort of thing lately. Fundamentally, because Apple is a hardware company, they have no compunction with setting up their software as a loss-leader (e.g. Garage Band) to sell hardware. No doubt making iWork free across the board on OSX, iOS, and on the web is part of this strategy: "Buy an iPad," they'll say, "It doesn't matter if you have a Windows PC, because you can use a web-based thing that's better than Google Docs, and it will sync with more magic than you can shake a stick at". Basically, they're jumping on this because a) Microsoft done hosed up, and continues to do gently caress up, and b) they don't want to cede this sort of thing to Google. And they can afford to give away iWork for free anyway, and it sells them more hardware.
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# ¿ Jul 14, 2013 03:28 |
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Lexicon posted:That all totally explains them making cheap or even free versions of the apps. It's going to the effort to make a web version in addition that seems out of step with their usual MO. It seems very clearly to me to try to grab the people who are becoming disaffected with Windows/Office and/or Google Docs. I agree that it's a bit out of step for them, but I suspect they're starting to become more aggressive at tearing away the Windows/Office hegemony.
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# ¿ Jul 14, 2013 15:31 |
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smackfu posted:Is there actually a way to migrate your calendar from GCal to iCal? My wife and I just made the switch a week or two ago. It was pretty painless, although it seemed that if the same event was shared on multiple Google Calendars, iCal threw a bit of a fit. However, all of our such things were two years old, so I just said "trust the server", and one of them got deleted, and it was all good.
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# ¿ Jul 18, 2013 02:17 |
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TopherCStone posted:I've only played with OSX a little, but it seemed unclear which programs were running and which were just sitting there. From a high-level computing philosophy perspective, that's kind of the point. You shouldn't really need to know what is and isn't running. All that matters (theoretically) is what's on your screen and what's not. Apps should (theoretically) behave accordingly. The way apps work on iOS these days is a good example of this philosophy on a lower-powered computing platform. (Not saying that I agree or disagree with this philosophy, but that's what I've come to understand "the Apple way" to be) quote:I've also felt that the mouse cursor moves a bit slowly, but that's probably just a setting I can play with. Get SmoothMouse. There was a bit more discussion about it here.
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# ¿ Aug 2, 2013 04:24 |
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Kingnothing posted:This is going to be even more true now once mavericks drops. The idea that if a window drops behind another window is it reroutes power is pretty amazing. It's the logical extension of the philosophy. Frankly, I think it's pretty sweet. But I can see why some people don't like the "Apple Way". I've had my actual Mac for only two months now, and I'm still getting used to some things. Though it would probably go faster if I didn't also use a Windows machine all day at work. The switching off is really starting to screw with my keyboard-shortcut muscle memory.
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# ¿ Aug 2, 2013 23:47 |
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Choadmaster posted:I never understood why everyone seems to leave it at the bottom. Inertia. Also, if you frequently need to compare two things side-by-side, you want all the horizontal space you can get also. Plus the center-bottom is faster to get to from anywhere on the screen than the dock being against either side. At work I use Windows, but with two monitors, one vertical, the other horizontal. My taskbar is on the left side of the horizontal, so it ends up being in the "middle" of my virtual desktop (as the vertical monitor is further to the left). And I don't like my home computer and work computer to be similar, so dock on bottom it is!
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# ¿ Aug 3, 2013 16:25 |
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I'm lazy and when leaning back using my mouse, I don't want to lean forward to hit a key on my keyboard sometimes. Is there a way I can launch Launchpad and Mission Control just by using my mouse without having them in the dock? Some way of like, middle-click on empty desktop doing something? Or an app in the menubar? Or am I stuck with having to keep those in my dock for that?
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# ¿ Aug 5, 2013 04:34 |
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TopherCStone posted:Since migrating to OSX I've noticed that Chrome doesn't behave the way it should. I have it set to resume where I left off, but if I restart my computer and then go back into Chrome they're all gone. Am I doing something wrong? What setting do you have in System Preferences -> General -> Close windows when quitting an application?
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# ¿ Aug 13, 2013 15:12 |
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IratelyBlank posted:I know Airs are capable of dual booting into windows but I was looking at only getting the 128gb model to keep the cost down and I don't think this is enough space to run two modern operating systems. It's not emulation, but I'm running Parallels, which is apparently smart enough to only use as much space on disk as the stuff you have installed needs. My Parallels installation of Windows 7 with Office 365 installed clocks in at 31.83 GB. However, I also didn't intentionally try to skim it down to the lowest amount of space possible.
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# ¿ Aug 30, 2013 02:55 |
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I asked this over in the iTunes thread, but it might be more applicable here. I have an mp3 from the days of yore when I ripped all my CD's, but the disc was one of those annoying ones where one disc track had multiple songs in it, and now I'd like to split it into multiple tracks so I can listen to them separately. Any good suggestions on what I could use to do this?
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# ¿ Sep 5, 2013 04:28 |
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carry on then posted:I think you'll have to use an audio editor like Audacity to split and export two separate files. I noticed Audacity, but is there a good editor that doesn't require a PhD in audio software to do something as simple as freaking split a file on silence (and allow me to listen and adjust the boundaries just in case)?
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# ¿ Sep 5, 2013 04:52 |
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eddiewalker posted:Command+Z. Same as control-z in windows. However, redo is not command-Y, like you'd expect with it being control-Y in Windows. Redo is command-shift-Z.
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# ¿ Oct 11, 2013 02:58 |
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Is it just me, or is the Maps application really laggy and slow? It's almost as bad as Google Maps has gotten. I also wonder how long it will be until we get a "Find My Friends" app for OS X. That would be really nice.
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# ¿ Oct 30, 2013 04:59 |
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japtor posted:Runs fine here, 2011 Mac mini w/Radeon. Is it just everything about it laggy or particular things? I have a Mac Mini from June 2013 with 16 GB RAM and Intel Graphics. It lags whenever I do anything that requires it to load more images, like zooming in/out or moving around. I'll do things like scroll to zoom out and it just freezes for a second or two. And when panning around, it will sometimes freeze and then suddenly "snap" and send me several screens over. It just seems to me like a maps app should be smooth when zooming/panning around maps.
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# ¿ Oct 31, 2013 03:11 |
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japtor posted:Yeah that's weird, it's basically as smooth as the iOS apps here, with some low res placeholders or gridlines when panning quickly. Are you using a platter drive by any chance? Just curious if it's pausing while hitting the drive or something. I'm on a Fusion Drive, so I shouldn't be hitting the platter, I'd think. I'm not seeing anything in Console when it's lagging. It seems largely to be when it's either downloading or rendering part of the map, but I'd think they'd code around that, since that's the whole point of the grid and such.
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# ¿ Nov 2, 2013 20:51 |
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I recently stumbled upon a tens-of-gigabytes cache of old data that I had sitting around. However, I'm pretty sure most of it is stuff that I actually already have, and this just has a bunch of duplicates because of backups or whatever. What I'd like to do is run some program that will go through all of the files/folders of my old data and see if I have it sitting around somewhere in the rest of my data. If so, I'll delete them, but otherwise, I'll probably want to salvage it. I did find Singlemizer a while back, though I can't easily scope it down to just compare two folders' contents against each other; I have to compare it against the common ancestor folder, which means I get a bunch of false positives (because of other bad data management on my part). Is there anything out there that lets me do what I want to do? Or am I stuck largely doing it manually?
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# ¿ Apr 6, 2014 04:34 |
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BobHoward posted:Comfortable with running a script from Terminal? Then have this perl thingy I adapted from someone else's dupe-finding script a while back. Paste into a plain text file, "chmod +x" the file, and play around Awesome, thanks a bunch. I probably could have written something like this, but I'm lazy, and glad someone else did it for me. This should be very helpful.
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# ¿ Apr 6, 2014 20:22 |
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With this Heartbleed shitstorm happening, now seems like a good time to invest in a secure-password manager. It looks like the two top ones on the market are 1Password and Lastpass. Does anyone have any real experience/opinion on where these stand these days? It's hard to find a comparison review that isn't several years old.
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# ¿ Apr 12, 2014 05:24 |
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Part of what makes picking between the two difficult for me is that my wife and I want to share passwords for some things (e.g. Netflix, banks), and realistically, we want the ability to get into each other's stuff (largely, e-mail) just in case something happens to one of us. We're also going to want to use mobile apps, though I'm still fuzzy on how that works with say, the Evernote app, or with signing into the App Store.
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# ¿ Apr 12, 2014 19:03 |
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wolffenstein posted:As for in case something should happen to either of you, I can say from a recent family death the best way to do this is to include your master password into your will. Sounds bizarre, but it's the most effective and useful way. Or at least directions how to get it, like storing a piece of paper in a safety deposit box. This is totally in the plans--at least, we're going to store it written down in the same place we're storing the will, which should hopefully be good enough. My primary worry about having it written down too many places is then when it changes, we have to make sure all those places get updated. To a certain extent, I think what my wife wants is for us to share one account; LastPass's personas seems pretty up to that task (they even mention it in the documentation). I'm just a little wary of 1) keeping my passwords in the cloud like that, and 2) requiring an Internet connection to LastPass to access them (the Internet connection alone isn't as worrisome: I need a connection to connect to the site I need a password for; it's requiring a connection to LastPass specifically that bothers me). My inclination at the moment is to work a little with LastPass because it's free, and see how I like it.
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# ¿ Apr 12, 2014 22:28 |
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shymog posted:Is there any way for this to stay locked to the specific pointing device (ie trackpad "natural", mouse "normal")? You're looking for Scroll Reverser.
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# ¿ Apr 18, 2014 00:15 |
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The biggest thing stopping me from moving from Firefox to Safari is the utter lack of closed tab history. I undo close tab a lot, and frequently several times in a row (so Safari's undo-to-reopen-tab isn't good enough).
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# ¿ Apr 23, 2014 17:03 |
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Neurophonic posted:Undo to reopen last closed tab definitely remembers the tab's own history when restored. I'm not in front of my mac to test the menu list myself but I'd be surprised if it wasn't at least possible via an extension. Maybe SafariStand or Glims or something. I'm working in Safari Version 7.0.3 (9537.75.14). I open it fresh; the starting window shows me my top sites. I navigate Tab 1 to nytimes.com. I middle-click on three different links, so I have 4 tabs open in my browser. On Tab 2 (the first article I opened), I scroll to the "Most Emailed" section and click on one of the links, opening it in the same tab. I press Ctrl-T to open up a new tab (tab 5). In that tab, I type "foobar" then enter, which brings me to a google search page. I hit the first link, opening it up in tab 5. Now I close Tab 2 (the link from the first article I opened), Tab 3 (the second article I opened), then Tab 4 (the third article I opened) in that order. On Tab 5 (foobar.com), I click the "Screenshots" link. I hit Ctrl-T to open a new tab and search for "Hello", which brings up a Google search page. Now I realize that my old Tab 2 had something on it that I wanted. Ctrl-Z will "Undo typing", which doesn't help. I don't have anything in the "History" menu that allows me to open tabs that I previously closed. I do see the two articles from Tab 2 on that list (god forbid I clicked even more on foobar.com in-between), but clicking on either article overwrites the tab I'm currently in. I can middle-click, which does open a new tab, but it means I have a new tab, when what I wanted was Tab 2 back, with its full history stack. In Firefox, I have in my History, a list of "Previously Closed Tabs" that I can browse through to get the tab I want. Alternately, I can right-click on the tab bar and select "Undo close tab" a handful of times to get the tab I want, because I frequently won't remember the title of the page, I'll remember what it looked like. I have seen Glims mentioned as a possibility, but then when I go to a page to download it, I see various comments talking about ads. I will look into SafariStand.
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# ¿ Apr 23, 2014 23:10 |
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Tippis posted:What ⌘Z does will depend on the context. If you have a text field in focus, it undoes typing. If you have a general page or tab in focus, it will revert to undo close tab. But it won't let me undo close tabs multiple times, which is what I want: to grab the tab that I closed 3 closed tabs ago.
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# ¿ Apr 23, 2014 23:55 |
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gmq posted:What do you use for off-site backups? I use Mozy. It works well enough, though I've never had to do a full recover.
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# ¿ May 16, 2014 04:18 |
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I have copied my iTunes folder a half-dozen times across 3 computers, moving from Windows to OSX in the middle, and have never had any problems with it being "fragile". I have copied my wife's iTunes folder across 3 computers as well, moving from Windows to OSX in the middle, and have never had any problems with it being "fragile". In all cases, I moved the iTunes folder, ran iTunes, and told it to point to the new folder. No problems at all.
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# ¿ Jul 22, 2014 22:56 |
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Regarding IRC clients, it would be really great to have something more like Slack, where I connect to a server that's stored the the conversation or whatever of the channel. That way, I can have one user from all my devices, and also not miss stuff just because my home Internet connection decided to poo poo itself (or, you know, I finally get a laptop and take it someplace else). VVV I had no idea there was such a thing. Axiem fucked around with this message at 00:01 on Jul 24, 2014 |
# ¿ Jul 23, 2014 23:50 |
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I'm going with one of the free ZNC servers for now, although I'm having trouble connecting it to synirc--though some of it is that I'm trying to figure out how to use Textual while I'm trying to figure out how to use ZNC. I'm a sucker for punishment.
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# ¿ Jul 24, 2014 00:46 |
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crazysim posted:I run my ZNC on the lowest tier digital ocean VM for $5 a month. It works well with Textual. My plan eventually would be to do my own ZNC server, I just don't have the dedicated hosting at the moment and can't convince my wife to open the purse strings. So I'll stick with a free one, see how it works out--if it ends up that I don't actually use IRC anymore, then it becomes a moot point anyway.
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# ¿ Jul 24, 2014 02:42 |
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My wife and I have an Office 365 Home subscription (100$/year), and we like it; we also have a Mac Mini with a Windows VM, her laptop, and iPads/iPhones for both of us. It's nice not having to worry about updates across the board, especially once I also buy my own laptop--and OneDrive is...alright, I guess. I don't use it much.
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# ¿ Aug 24, 2014 19:24 |
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At the moment, my wife and I use Bittorrent Sync to keep our photo libraries in sync between our computers. We therefore still do our photo management by filesystem, instead of using something like iPhoto to manage them. My wife, who is used to Windows, is rather unhappy with OS X, though. For some reason, the create/modify dates on the photos does not actually correlate with the actual EXIF data of when the photo was taken. In Windows, she would be able to see the EXIF data in Windows Explorer; in OS X, though, she cannot, and she complains very vocally to me about this omission. Given that we share photo libraries (and various other reasons), moving to something like iPhoto is a no-go for now. (It would be really nice if iPhoto was a lot kinder to having a library shared between several people). I suppose somehow changing file metadata to match the EXIF would work, but what would be really nice is either a way of adding a "Date Taken" column to Finder, or to find a filesystem management application that can do EXIF data in its column display. Does someone have a good idea on how to rectify this situation?
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# ¿ Sep 6, 2014 18:04 |
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Kingnothing posted:As long as you're not having the library open on both machines at the same time, there shouldn't be a problem just sharing the same library. Doesn't work with a Windows computer in the mix, unfortunately. Plus, we explicitly share various photos files with the extended family (grandkids cause that) and it's not been made particularly clear to us how we could do that sort of thing with iPhoto, especially as not all extended family have iPhones or Macs. As noted, for this and other reasons, iPhoto is (at the moment) not an option. fleshweasel posted:Is there some finder replacement that would let you view that data when browsing the photos? This is my question, really. I'm not exactly hip to what Finder replacements there are out there. I have tried the Google on this, but with limited success: other people asking basically the same question, with either no response or "No, Finder can't do that, use iPhoto".
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# ¿ Sep 7, 2014 00:06 |
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Martytoof posted:What are you trying to sync across Macs? If it's just a small amount of documents then honestly I'd just Dropbox it. Quick, easy sync, and your files are available online as well. I'm not the original asker, but this is something my wife and I have been vaguely struggling with, as well. We're using Bittorrent Sync to keep our pictures in sync across machines, but I really don't know how much I trust it in the slightest. We also use it to sync her (not-safe-for-Dropbox) documents to the machine that gets backed up with Mozy. The main problem with Dropbox is that the free tier doesn't have enough space, and the paid tier costs too much; some tier in the middle would be absolutely fantastic. We tried Copy as a competitor, but it had severe problems with actually uploading the files. I hope BT Sync hasn't eaten anything yet. Pictures are precious. ...I really really really really hope iCloud Photos works for us. I don't know if it will, though, because it seems to have this baked-in assumption that each person has their own individual photo collection, and the fact of the matter is that me and my wife share one photo collection, and it's really dumb to have it duplicated across two accounts, especially if we have to pay for space for individuals.
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# ¿ Sep 25, 2014 04:36 |
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The Pictures folder is at 50.5 GB, and that's not including the slew of pictures taken for our newborn. Really, the Dropbox price would be far less galling if not for the fact that we have to pay it twice, because shared folders count against both accounts (this was the primary appeal of Copy). Though 120$/year is still a large number to my wife.
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# ¿ Sep 25, 2014 05:20 |
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JFairfax posted:Why don't you go through the albums, pick out a few dozen of the best photos, print out hard copies and get some sort of binder or album that you can store the hard copies in. We use Shutterfly for this, but yes, we do this as well. Doesn't mean we don't care about the whole set of pictures. TACD posted:I haven't tried it, but the new family iTunes accounts apparently have built-in photo sharing, so you might give that a go? I have no idea if just one or all of you would need to buy extra space for 'Photos in the Cloud' when that goes live though. That's really the crux of the matter: cost. It also would be kind of annoying for both of us to actually have two separate accounts even though we should only have one library--especially so photos my wife touches up or what have you are in "my" library, too. I have long said that most software makes the assumptions that its users are 1) adults and 2) single. Don't get me started about Address Books and how none of them seem to understand that two people can share the same address and should continue to share the same address when they move.
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# ¿ Sep 26, 2014 03:21 |
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1st AD posted:You get like 1tb for $100, that ought to be plenty of space? (My iPhoto library is about the same size) Last I checked, it's 10$/month for 1 TB, which means that my wife and I would be paying 240$ dollars a year to store our photos with them (we have separate Dropbox accounts, and Dropbox is really annoying in how it counts Shared folders against both parties). I think at the moment we'll keep trucking until the new Apple photo stuff hits, and then we'll re-evaluate. Well, that and enter the weekly drawing for a Transporter.
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# ¿ Sep 27, 2014 02:38 |
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1st AD posted:Why wouldn't you just share one account? Because we're two different people with at times radically different ideas about how things should be organized, and frequently with very different sorts of content between us. Plus, we got all of that set up and nice before any selective sync stuff happened, and there were definitely files in my Dropbox that I didn't want syncing to her work computer. And when we set it up, there were things (largely around her wedding dress) that she didn't want me having a chance at seeing. We could get a third Dropbox account at this point, but then that just gets messy with the clients. Also: Me: "Hey dear, how about we merge our Dropbox accounts into one with all the files" Her: "How about no." dik-dik posted:Not sure exactly what your setup is, but why not just set up a local NAS and store all your photos centrally? You really just need a good router with a USB port and a decent external hard drive, both of which can be purchased pretty cheaply. And if you want remote backup of the photos you can use something like Crashplan, which, for $5/mo, gives you unlimited backups. I have two hesitations with SMB: 1) it always feels very flaky to me, 2) "delete" does an actual delete instead of sending to the trash can, and I don't know if I trust myself or her with not having that layer of safety. We don't live on the edge. Another scratch against SMB (but not enough to really kill it as an idea) is that we wouldn't be able to really do stuff with a laptop/iPad away from home.
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# ¿ Sep 27, 2014 04:03 |
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# ¿ Apr 17, 2024 19:42 |
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So, since glims apparently doesn't work in Yosemite, and hasn't been updated for a year, I'm questioning whether or not it's still being maintained. Is there a replacement plugin that'll give me keyword search, favicons on tabs, and multiple undo-close-tab?
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# ¿ Oct 18, 2014 20:24 |