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MacMerc.TV– SuperDuper!

Have you made your New Years resolutions for 2009 yet? Is it too late for me to suggest that you add “back up” to the list?

In this edition of MacMerc.TV, I take a look at Shirt Pocket Software’s backup utility, SuperDuper!, and show you why you’d want to use it instead of or, better yet, in addition to Mac OS X 10.5′s Time Machine.
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The latest additions to the MacMerc Store are a bag of hurt

image.php 20081103 204351 The latest additions to the MacMerc Store are a bag of hurtAt Apple’s Spotlight on Notebooks event last month, the post-presentation Q&A brought up the subject of Blu-Ray and specifically its absence from Apple’s product line. At the time, Steve Jobs chimed in by commenting,

“Blu-ray is just a bag of hurt. It’s great to watch the movies, but the licensing of the tech is so complex, we’re waiting till things settle down and Blu-ray takes off in the marketplace.”

Since then the bloggosphere and the twittersphere have adopted the the term “bag of hurt” and have applied it to many inelegant or difficult technologies…many of them Apple creations.

Today in the MacMerc Store, two new items have been added to our catalog that poke fun at the “bag of hurt.”

The first is an actual bag. The Tote Bag of Hurt is a simple black tote bag suitable for carrying all your Blu-Ray discs to your media PC or perhaps your Psystar Mac OS X-compatible PC. It comes in basic black and sells for USD$17.99.

image 1.php 20081103 204813 The latest additions to the MacMerc Store are a bag of hurtThe second “bag of hurt” item is the Bag of Hurt T-Shirt–perhaps we should call it “the Shirt of Hurt.” Everybody has those days when they feel like a bag of hurt, now you can warn people up front. The shirt is available in basic black in sizes ranging from Small to XX-Large. The Bag of Hurt T-Shirt sells for USD$21.90.

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SuperDuper! is ready for Leopard. Makes Time Machine drive bootable!

superduper 20080205 094131 SuperDuper! is ready for Leopard. Makes Time Machine drive bootable!My favorite Mac backup utility, SuperDuper!, has finally been updated for Leopard. The folks at Shirt Pocket Software have been beating the program into Leopard submission since the OS’s release and it is now ready for action and better than ever.

SuperDuper! was already a very powerful and easy to use backup solution, but now with the addition of Time Machine to Leopard, you might think it rather superfluous. Not so.

The new SuperDuper! can replace Time Machine by offering a full backup of your drive without taking up extra space with all those “moments in time” snapshots. If you like being able to browse through those snapshots, SuperDuper! can offer your Time Machine drive an ability it never had before: bootablility. It can also allow you to make a flawless transfer of your Time Machine drive data if you decide to migrate it to a larger drive.

SuperDuper! sells for USD$27.95 but the Leopard update is FREE to existing customers.

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