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Someone recently asked me if an iBook can be carried around safely when it is asleep or whether it is a better idea to shut it down. In fact, only one or two applications have let me down so far but more on that shortly.
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Fortunately Palm produce an OS X version of their Desktop software and most of the Palm applications that I use that had a Windows companion application also have a Mac equivalent.
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Appleworks seems to have some success in this area but I was advised that if the documents were complex (and many of them are) then I would be better buying a copy of Office X which allows for pretty much perfect document handling and file format compatibility.īeing able to synchronise my Palm with my iBook is very important to me, as is the ability to install new applications and use some third-party desktop applications. As almost all of the documents are Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel files I needed to ensure that I could both open and read them and also save them in a suitable format. My work as a Visual Basic developer involves a lot of document sharing with colleagues. This is actually a Java application and it will therefore work on several operating systems including Windows and I am just sad that I didn't find it sooner. However, when I decided to migrate to an iBook I made a concerted effort to find a replacement application and I found Moneydance. I was never happy with either Microsoft Money or Quicken and therefore this was one of the core applications that kept me using my netBook on a daily basis. I used to use a fantastic application called RMRBank () on my Psion netBook to manage my finances. Mail can handle numerous accounts, mail servers and allows mail-handling rules to be created all of which I needed but, as a bonus, incoming, outgoing, draft and sent mails are all stored in their own folders automatically which is something that I had to achieve in Outlook using a number of rules.
I even managed to transfer all of my Outlook emails and their attachments over to my iBook (details will be given in my upcoming notes about migrating data from Windows to OS X). Mail is Apple's standard email client and it has proven to be a very capable replacement for Outlook 2000. My bank, Abbey National, complains but lets me log in to their eBanking service but why web development companies assume that everyone uses or should use Internet Explorer is beyond me. A few web sites seem to dislike it but these are the typical "if you're not using Internet Explorer you're not coming in" type. I have been using it as my primary web browser and I have to say that I am impressed with both its speed and stability. However, and rather fortunately, just about the time I got my iBook Apple's own web browser, Safari, left beta and was released as version 1.0. My preferred Windows web browser was Opera but I had heard bad things about Opera 6 for OS X. I plan to mention new applications as and when I come across them and try them out but for now I will post a quick list of what software I am using on a daily basis. One area that I have yet to touch is that of what software I have installed on my iBook and how I am getting on in my transition from Windows to OS X. A few minutes later and the whole process had been completed and was very straightforward and painless. Some research on the web led me to Carbon Copy Cloner ( ) which really is an excellent, easy to use but very powerful application.Īfter setting up the external hard disk (a simple case of partitioning it into two, one half for backups and one half for data) I started Carbon Copy Cloner and within a few seconds had it working away producing a bootable image of my iBook's hard disk. The second solution would involve a lengthier backup process but it would at least allow me to boot from the backup hard disk if my laptop suffered a catastrophic failure. I could either use a tool which would backup specific files and folders or I could use a tool which would create an image of my hard disk. The next task was to find some backup software and here I was faced with two real options.
As a result I bought a LaCie 80GB external FireWire drive ( ).
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This would also offer me the opportunity to store additional data such as MP3 files and perhaps even have a common drive to share between my PC and my iBook. I considered burning data to a set of CDs and I also considered buying an enternal DVD writer but I finally settled on the idea of getting an external hard disk and using that.
Therefore when I got my iBook one of my initial thoughts was about how I would backup the hard disk in a reliable and regular manner. As a long-time computer user I have always been more than aware of the importance of backing up data on a regular basis.
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