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| 30-day notice of awesomeness |
We've been pretty happy with the way v2.7's been behaving out there in the Big, Beautiful World, but as my previous posts indicated there were some bugs that we needed to deal with. And deal we have: I'm happy to announce the v2.7.1, available today, has resolved the vast majority… |
Dave Nanian |
09/04/12 |
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| Talkin’ about 2.7’s rollout |
Two blog posts in two days - shocking! The rollout of 2.7 is going well: this is probably the smoothest new version release we've had. But, of course, when you go from "small batch testing" to "large batch testing", you find some things that slipped through the cracks. Here's what… |
Dave Nanian |
07/26/12 |
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| Silence is golden, but it’s time to talk |
The worst part about OS updates is that we can't talk about them. I know other companies will sometimes discuss Apple's next version of OS X, and how they do or don't work with it, but we try to keep our mouth shut until it's actually out there and we're… |
Dave Nanian |
07/25/12 |
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| Racer I(talian), Part Four: Canazei to Corvara |
Our previous was the biggest day of climbing before the Maratona, but today wasn't much smaller, with three passes to traverse on the trip from Canazei to Corvara. And once again, we'd be doing some of the passes that would feature in the Maratona, albeit from other directions: Falzarego and… |
Dave Nanian |
07/18/11 |
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| Racer I(talian), Part Three: Enter the Dolomites |
Re-reading the last two blog posts, it's pretty clear I'm both out of blogging practice and at a loss for words that might actually describe this experience. Part of that is due to the nature of what we were all doing: how do you talk about exertion and sweating and… |
Dave Nanian |
07/15/11 |
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| Racer I(talian), Part Two |
When you're pushing a way up a climb, going 12kp/h or whatever you're managing, panting and aching, it's humbling to think about how quickly your typical professional cyclist can manage the same thing. Of course, it's their job, and (and I mean this in admiration) they're basically mutant superheroes as… |
Dave Nanian |
07/14/11 |
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| Racer I(talian), Part One |
My original plan was to blog about the Maratona dles Dolomites, and the week leading up to it, while it was happening. It'd been a while since I'd written things with any regularity, and it seemed to be a good way to get started again. Foolish me. Given the length… |
Dave Nanian |
07/13/11 |
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| Maratona dles Dolomites and an Update |
For SuperDuper! users, I'll cut quickly to the chase here: we should be releasing an update this weekend that resolves the few issues that inevitably arise when a new update comes out. Thanks for your patience as we worked through the issues, and thanks to the users who helped us… |
Dave Nanian |
07/09/11 |
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| Riding a Lion |
There's a certain way I like to release a version of SuperDuper, or any application, really. It goes something like this: We plan a healthy mix of fixes, tweaks and features. Those new features are designed and implemented. Once we've put them through a bunch of internal testing, we recruit… |
Dave Nanian |
06/30/11 |
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| Spinning round and round |
The What Ever been confronted by a Spinning Pinwheel of Death on launch of SuperDuper! on Snow Leopard and, while waiting for it to stop doing that, raised your hands to the sky and cursed me and the ground I walk on? Hey, me too (without the self-cursing—kids, remember, if… |
Dave Nanian |
08/07/10 |
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| Mac keeps waking on its own? Try this. |
So, I don't usually put general how-tos up here at Shirt Pocket Watch, but since I found this more than a bit frustrating and hard to diagnose, I thought someone else out there would benefit from what I found. For years my Macs haven't gone to sleep on their own.… |
Dave Nanian |
01/05/10 |
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| SuperDuper! v2.6.2 now available! |
It's been in test for quite a while, and we're happy to say that SuperDuper! v2.6.2 has been released! I understated the speed improvements we've measured in the press release and collateral, but we really are seeing 3x improvements in-house, which is pretty great. We'll see how it works for… |
Dave Nanian |
10/13/09 |
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| How Ya Doin’? |
Just a quick post to let you know how things are going with SuperDuper! and the upcoming v2.6.2 (no release date yet, so don't ask—hence this post). So far, we've: Implemented a fix for the problem where we don't preserve compression under Snow Leopard Ensured that extra data is no… |
Dave Nanian |
09/22/09 |
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| Squashed |
Well, a week has gone by, and 2.6.1 has been downloaded and run by an awful lot of you. It seems to be working well, too—which isn't to say it's perfect so, once again, no unicorn. Here's what we're working on right now. Individual file compression under Snow Leopard is… |
Dave Nanian |
09/04/09 |
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| SuperDuper! v2.6.1 released |
Rather than taking the time to write a mildly amusing "we suck" press release that announces this day-after-the-big-release update, let me just say it fixes the stuff I mentioned in the last post, followed by ringing a dinner bell. Come and get it! |
Dave Nanian |
08/29/09 |
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| A Quick Debriefing |
It seems I always have to do one of these hey we released a new update and here are the two or three problems users have run into posts, no matter how long we test for, or how clean we think the build is. Wouldn't want to break with tradition.… |
Dave Nanian |
08/29/09 |
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| SuperDuper v2.6 released |
SUMMARY: Shirt Pocket announces the immediate availability of SuperDuper! 2.6 - improved and now compatible with Snow Leopard Shirt Pocket is happy to announce that SuperDuper 2.6 is now available as a free update for all users. The new version includes full Snow Leopard support as well as many other… |
Dave Nanian |
08/28/09 |
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| Monster Truck Friday (Friday, Friday?) |
We've received some independent confirmation that the version of Snow Leopard we've been testing with these past few weeks is, indeed, the version that's shipping to users. So, at present, and as promised given those circumstances, I expect v2.6 of SuperDuper!, which is fully Snow Leopard compatible, to be released… |
Dave Nanian |
08/27/09 |
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| A bigger tease |
Yeah, it's a gigantic, multi-day blast of blogging here at Shirt Pocket World Headquarters and LEGO Assembly Center. I'm going through the revision history for the betas as I try to determine what's best to highlight, and there are a lot of behind-the-scenes changes in this version. A few more… |
Dave Nanian |
08/25/09 |
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| Short term tease |
Hey, everyone! So, as promised in my previous post, we're working hard on getting v2.6 out, which will include full Snow Leopard support. Over 140 people are currently testing the current Beta, and save for a few relatively minor problems things have been going very well. I had based our… |
Dave Nanian |
08/24/09 |
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| Snow Leopard and SuperDuper! |
I've recently been getting a lot of questions about SuperDuper! and Snow Leopard compatibility, so I thought I'd put an "official statement" (oooh!) up here on the blog. Remember: Snow Leopard is under Non-Disclosure. I can't really say anything about it until it's released. So, please, don't ask. You'll get… |
Dave Nanian |
06/27/09 |
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07/01/09 |
| Happy 2009 to All! |
I'm not going to make a commitment to blogging more this year, although perhaps I should, because I've been remiss (and busy). I am up on Twitter as dnanian, though, so feel free to follow me there for the occasional self-serving and usually uninteresting bit of blather. The New Year… |
Dave Nanian |
01/01/09 |
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01/05/09 |
| Boom! |
I think the last time I wrote about the Squeezebox was in 2005 (yikes!), but it's time to virtually attaboy again: the Slim Devices folks have recently released the Squeezebox Boom, and it's pretty darn great. (I might be a little biased because I wrote their Mac-native support years ago,… |
Dave Nanian |
10/20/08 |
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10/22/08 |
| For Those Addicted to Clack… |
For nearly two years, I've been using the PC version of the Logitech diNovo Edge keyboard, and I've been quite happy with it. I've always been a huge fan of the feel of the IBM Selectric typewriter keyboard - perfect keyboards, not too noisy, incredible feel with a definitive release.… |
Dave Nanian |
08/30/08 |
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01/05/09 |
| Anyone for tennis? |
There are times when our inability to truly talk to our animals, to reason with them, can be truly frustrating. And, alas, truly dangerous. Last weekend was one of those times. Having successfully negotiated the power-failure/exploding transformer/brushfire disaster of Friday the 13th, in the sense that we lived through it,… |
Dave Nanian |
06/20/08 |
14 |
08/18/08 |
| Where it’s at… |
Excuse the brevity of this post, but—as you might expect with a new update–things are kind of busy around these parts. The update's gone well, except for some bandwidth issues we had to deal with, and some MySQL issues on my server that happened due to some issues with the… |
Dave Nanian |
02/10/08 |
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05/11/08 |
| SuperDuper! 2.5 Released! |
And what could make it more official than a press release and a download? Press Release Shirt Pocket is happy to announce that SuperDuper 2.5 is now available as a free update for all users. The new version includes full Leopard support, including the ability to store a bootable backup… |
Dave Nanian |
02/05/08 |
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| For those about to ship… |
...we salute our testers, and the patience of our users. It's going to be a SuperDuper! Tuesday. |
Dave Nanian |
02/04/08 |
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02/04/08 |
| Workaround runaround |
A few days ago, we were happy to get a workaround for the bug mentioned in a previous post, so we went about implementing and testing—and things were working quite well. Unfortunately, we've found a case where the workaround doesn't, um, work. I think I have a way of dealing… |
Dave Nanian |
01/21/08 |
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01/29/08 |
| I’m Bugged |
Last post, I mentioned that we were bitten by a bug that showed up during late-in-the-game testing that didn't make a lot of sense, and was quite nasty in certain complex situations. This bug caused the "release process" to grind to a halt. Well, I'm happy to say that, as… |
Dave Nanian |
01/14/08 |
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01/26/08 |
| Quick Update |
We look to still be on schedule, so hopefully you'll have the new version (which, by the way, I've decided will be 2.5, not 2.1.5) in a week or so. We've been working through a problem with copying hard folder links in a complicated source volume recently that's got us… |
Dave Nanian |
01/03/08 |
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01/20/08 |
| Slowest! Update! Ever! |
I know it feels like that from the outside. But from the inside, we've been putting out quite a few external beta releases (11 at last count), incorporating feedback from our testers, and carefully observing what users with 2.1.4—who have tried to use it with Leopard—have tried to do. Before… |
Dave Nanian |
12/16/07 |
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01/11/08 |
| Updating the updates |
Another week, another Leopard Status Update. Please, hold your cheers and applause until the end. Two parts Although most people think about SuperDuper! as a single application, it's actually comprised of a number of parts. The two main ones are the UI application (which you interact with) and the Copy… |
Dave Nanian |
12/05/07 |
72 |
12/16/07 |
| Time Marches On! |
So, another quick update on our progress on the Leopard version of SuperDuper! (which will work better than the 2.1.4 on Tiger, for those of you still there). Link Hard I'm happy to say that we've worked through the last few issues with hard links and the complexities of copying… |
Dave Nanian |
11/26/07 |
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12/06/07 |
| Leopard Status Update |
By popular demand (and demand and demand and demand), here's a quick update on the status of SuperDuper!'s Leopard update (likely to be called 2.1.5). Sorry it's been a bit quiet here. I've been getting a lot of email, and it's hard to find the time to write posts. I'll… |
Dave Nanian |
11/16/07 |
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01/20/08 |
| Time’s Arrow Redux |
Now that the release of Leopard is imminent-ish, I thought I'd do an update of my Time's Arrow post from a year ago regarding SuperDuper! and Time Machine. Let's get into it! Leopard Compatbitility First, v2.1.4 of SuperDuper! is not fully compatible with Leopard. Changes were made to Leopard since… |
Dave Nanian |
10/23/07 |
73 |
12/18/07 |
| Linklove |
It's been really busy around these parts, and I haven't had enough time to blog, alas. But I wanted to point out a few notable recent releases for people who might be interested. iPhone AutoSync Ben Gottlieb of Stand Alone has released a new product -- his first "real" Mac… |
Dave Nanian |
09/04/07 |
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09/12/07 |
| One Year Later |
A quick post: it's been a year since we lost Ketzl, and a day short of a year since Taiko joined our family. He's been a big help dealing with the loss, and has grown into a fine--though rather enthusiastic--young dog. I consciously left Ketzl's name on our answering machine… |
Dave Nanian |
07/21/07 |
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07/22/07 |
| Back to Work! |
It's a few weeks later, but Zabeth and I are back from our two week vacation, and so things around here are returning to normal: the Shirt Pocket Support "autoresponder" is turned off (since I'm able to respond more quickly now), and Z's begun her internship in Bridgewater. The motivation… |
Dave Nanian |
07/18/07 |
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08/10/07 |
| iPhone |
It's not easy to look at the iPhone, let alone touch the thing, and not be enchanted. It's all planes and subtle, refined curves with a radius (and texture) that feels great in the hand. It's not light, but not heavy either: just about right, given the size of it,… |
Dave Nanian |
07/13/07 |
11 |
07/16/07 |
| OSX Server Security Update Warning |
A quick warning for those of you running Tiger Server: the latest security update edits the LaunchDaemon plist for named (BIND/DNS), relocating it from /usr/bin to /usr/sbin. However, at the same time, it disables it. That means that, after install and restart, your DNS server will not work: you'll need… |
Dave Nanian |
05/30/07 |
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06/01/07 |
| I Hate The Nokia E61i |
All those within the sound of my voice, let it be known: I hate the Nokia E61i. Well, hate might be too strong a word. After all, Nokia has done some things right. To start: I decided to give it a try after it got some raves from the Nokia… |
Dave Nanian |
05/23/07 |
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07/28/07 |
| Big Days |
Big couple of days here, in a good way. New Graduate First off, Zabeth graduated from Tufts Veterinary School on Sunday -- she's now Dr. Zabeth. Pretty cool stuff. It's really an incredible accomplishment, and Z worked outrageously hard to get to this point. We've been in "social jail" for… |
Dave Nanian |
05/21/07 |
5 |
05/22/07 |
| Ocean of words |
For those who haven't heard me blather at length about all things SuperDuper! and Shirt Pocket, there's a 45 minute interview of me up at MacVoices. Remember: the game rules require you to drink every time you hear me say "Um", "Uh" or audibly gesticulate. Do not play while driving. |
Dave Nanian |
05/03/07 |
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05/14/07 |
| Clicking away |
My friend Jonas Salling has started blogging again, and that's always a good thing. He's got some recent posts up there as he tests the WiFi support for Clicker, and the results may surprise you! Jonas is one of the hardest working developers out there, and he never settles for… |
Dave Nanian |
04/27/07 |
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05/01/07 |
| Tip for Seagate SATA drive owners |
A little tip for those of you who might have installed Seagate SATA drives into your 3GB/s capable G5, MacPro, NAS device, or whatever. Looks like recent Seagate drives ship with a jumper installed that limits the drive to 1.5GB/s speeds. While the jumper is documented in the User's Guide… |
Dave Nanian |
04/26/07 |
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05/12/07 |
| One long dog |
Taiko and Zabeth were out walking the other day and ran into a neighbor out for a stroll with his own dog. He asked a bit about Ketzl, and Zabeth asked about his previous pups, and during that discussion he said "you know, it's like we've owned one long poodle… |
Dave Nanian |
04/24/07 |
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| A different Eddy entirely |
While I'm posting about music, I just love the album A Girl Called Eddy. Erin Moran (aka Eddy) has a beautiful voice and great songwriting chops. A melancholy pop album that's pretty amazing from beginning to end, with some great production and guitar work by Richard Hawley of Pulp fame.… |
Dave Nanian |
04/16/07 |
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| Never hear the end of it |
How, exactly, did I miss Sloan over the last 10 years? |
Dave Nanian |
04/15/07 |
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04/15/07 |
| WM/UIQ/WTF |
I freely admit, right at the start of this post, that I switch cell phones too often. A lot of this is because I try to do a lot with my mobile phone, mostly mail and web based. And I want the thing to work well with my Mac, and… |
Dave Nanian |
04/13/07 |
5 |
07/11/07 |