Casey's Tumblelog

I'm just a regular schmo, in his mid 20s, living on the east coast of the US.

Here you'll find random findings from around the Internet, with a few original items sprinkled in.

If you'd like, you can read about my journey into buying a Mac.

I can be contacted via e-mail via the username casey at this domain.

Sat Nov 7

F Yeah Top Gear

Tumblr, I love you. How have I not found this until now?

Top Gear Series 14 Teaser. So pumped. (via FinalGear)

Fri Nov 6

Backup

Let me say it again.

Backup.

Backup your computer.

Backup your photos.

Backup your files.

Backup your email.

If it doesn’t exist in at least two places it doesn’t exist.*

*And if it’s really, really, really critical, back it up in two places and a third off-site.

I cannot stress this enough, BACK UP YOUR FILES!

Because when, not if, your hard drive crashes.

Your child spills juice on your laptop.

You knock your coffee onto the desk and your laptop.

You drop your laptop.

Or the eventuality of a hard drive having moving parts and eventually it will die occurs.

Your. Files. Are. Gone!

Recovery is very expensive! Often costing hundreds if not thousands of dollars with zero guarantee of recovery of anything!

So please, just backup.

If you’re on a Mac, use Time Machine or the superb SuperDuper!

If you’re on Windows, use Second Copy (free trial) or Sync Back (Free, look for it on the page).

If you’re on Linux you should know enough to backup already.

Reblogged because this really can’t be said often enough. I always have all of my important files in triplicate, make DVDs that I take offsite every 6 months (that makes a 4th copy), and really important files like financial data is also synchronized with Dropbox instantly, making a 5th copy.

Either I am crazy or Google Maps has added property lines.

Thu Nov 5

My Desktop.

I departed from my old theme of Aston Martins simply because this wallpaper was too good to resist.

I’ve also been forcing myself to keep my dock hidden, off the left-hand side of the screen. I don’t particularly care for it, because I can never tell if an IM is waiting for me, or if there is something in my inbox, or if there is something in NetNewsWire waiting for me.

However, it’s for all those same reasons that I also like it—it’s much easier to concentrate and I find myself less distracted. I also like the extra screen real estate. Much of this has been inspired by all the desktops that whiz by on my dashboard courtesy of Minimal Mac.

We’ll see how long it lasts, but I’m trying as best I can to hold out.

I have to say, I quite like having nothing but DateLine and my Incoming folder on my desktop. My Incoming folder is simply my “to be filed” bucket, and I try to make sure things don’t live there more than a week.

Mac users, do you keep your dock hidden? If so, on which side?

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