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  • SuperDuper, Carbon Copy Cloner and Others

    SuperDuper, Carbon Copy Cloner and Others

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesIn 2007 I bought a copy of [SuperDuper](https://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/SuperDuperDescription.html) that I used to backup my laptops for a while. I bought the licence for fourteen GBP in 2007 and it is still valid to this day. That’s less than a GBP per year of use. The tool is simple. It allows you to…

  • Using Nextcloud as a Timemachine Backup

    Using Nextcloud as a Timemachine Backup

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesAround a week ago I setup the Nextcloud desktop client to keep an eye on four folders. It synched three out of four folders with ease and struggled with the fourth so I removed it from the sync. Now I have three folders that sync permanently, and when I mean permanently I…

  • Waiting

    Waiting

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    Reading Time: 3 minutesAs I write this I am waiting for my Apple Laptop to complete two tasks. The first task is to convert all my audible books from AAX to MP3 format. This is taking days to complete because I have over 500 books and my mac book pro is slow, due to it being…

  • The Case for Using Albums in iPhoto, or WebDav

    The Case for Using Albums in iPhoto, or WebDav

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    Reading Time: 4 minutesWhen you take photos on an iphone or other such device it’s easy to take photos and never organise them, unless you share specific photos with specific people. Images are automatically organised by time, date, month, location and people by photo apps but this is just an illusion of organisation. By playing…

  • Experimenting with Nextcloud and A Raspberry Pi 4

    Experimenting with Nextcloud and A Raspberry Pi 4

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    Reading Time: 4 minutesNextcloud is an open source file sharing solution that has iOS, MacOS, Android, Windows and Linux apps. You can install it via a docker container, natively or via a number of other solutions. For my experiment I installed via Docker on Windows but haven’t done anything with it, and with [Nextcloudpi](https://nextcloudpi.com/). The…

  • A Simple iPhone – iCloud solution

    A Simple iPhone – iCloud solution

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesA few years ago I bought a 256 gigabyte iphone because I wanted more space and for a long time it was great because it meant that I had plenty of room to grow into. The issue comes when you get to over 200 gigabytes of data stored in iCloud because you…

  • KDrive – A Viable alternative to Google One and iCloud

    KDrive – A Viable alternative to Google One and iCloud

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    Reading Time: 3 minutesKDrive peaks my interest because instead of cost over 100 dollars per year it costs around 64 if you buy directly from their website rather than The Apple App Store, but also because once you send your photos up to the cloud, you can get them down more easily. With Google One…

  • Experiments With Time Machine

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesRecently I was using a one terabyte drive to backup a half terabyte drive and it would take four and a half hours to backup and I think I may have figured out why the software was taking so long. It’s because it was never designed to be used as I am…

  • Infomaniak K Drive, Swisscom Mycloud, Apple Icloud and Google Drive

    Infomaniak K Drive, Swisscom Mycloud, Apple Icloud and Google Drive

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    Reading Time: 5 minutesOver the last two days, I have been playing with Infomaniak K Drive, Swisscom MyCloud, Apple iCloud and Google Drive. I settled for Swisscom Mycloud because backing up pictures is free with my current contract and it’s cheaper than two terabytes with Apple iCloud. It’s free. Infomaniak K drive is interesting because…