Archive for April, 2010

I was recently doing some music tech consultancy work which presented me with an interesting conundrum. Picture this: my client has a control room running a G5 Mac, with tie lines down a stairs to a live room containing the most beautiful vintage grand piano. The challenge was to be able to record ones-self on the piano, without a tape op, and without having to make constant trips up & down the stairs. (more…)

Apple’s Backup software is a really handy way to incrementally back up selected data, whether to your iDisk or to an external hard drive.

Unfortunately, Apple just upgraded Backup to 3.2, and as it says in the dialogue box above, “Backup no longer supports backing up files and folders outside your home folder.” (more…)