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Archive of 2011

December 2010

  • How I Sync My iPod

    iTunes can tell you a lot about a song. It can tell you the title, the artist, the album, and the genre. It can tell you the year a song was released and when it was added to your iTunes library. iTunes can even tell you the bit rate of a recording, and how many times you have played or skipped a particular track. What iTunes can’t tell you is what a particular song is worth to you. iTunes can not place value on your music, and provides only clues when it comes to deciding which songs get synced to your iPod. Unless you are happy auto-filling your iPod randomly it is time to give your music value. Enter Ratings iTunes 3 gave us ratings. A chance to evaluate our music with a six point scale. To most people the idea of rating all of their music sounds tedious, and if you have several thousand songs it is certainly more of a chore than auto-filling your iPod. But the rewards are real. By telling iTunes how you value a song you can have it make smarter decisions about syncing your music.…

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May 2010

  • My Backup Strategy

    My backup strategy is simple. I have two computers, in two different locations, synchronized in real time over the web using Dropbox. Each computer is backed up hourly using Time Machine on two separate external hard drives. Time Machine keeps hourly backups for the past 24 hours, daily backups for the past month, and weekly backups for all previous months. If I mistakenly delete or overwrite a file on either computer I have thirty days worth of revisions on Dropbox, and twenty four hours worth of hourly revisions on both Time Machine backup. If Dropbox fails to synchronize or inadvertently deletes files on both computers and the web, I still have two Time Machine backups in two different locations. If my house burns down I may lose a computer and a Time Machine backup, but I will still have all of my files backed up to the web via Dropbox, and my second computer with a working Time Machine backup. If the city of Boston burns down I may may lose both of my computers and both of my…

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