Month: November 2010

Every holiday, between the food and family, I always seem to find time for a quick project. Last year I built the first version of Nottingham over the Thanksgiving break. This year was no exception, and I found myself putting the final touches on Sosumi for Mac after an eighteen hour coding streak this weekend. Sosumi for Mac builds on the original Sosumi project I started last Summer — a PHP script that returned the location of your iPhone by scraping MobileMe’s website and that eventually evolved to use Apple’s “official” API once that was released. Last week, Apple pushed …

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Back in June I wrote a detailed post describing how I backup my data. One of the key components of my backup strategy was using Backblaze for continuous, offsite recovery in the event of a disaster. Well, disaster struck. Last week, the hard drive in my father’s MacBook died. In the past, I’d setup a networked Time Machine drive to backup my parents’ laptops, but for whatever reason it never worked reliably. OS X would often become unable to mount the drive — even when connected to an Apple Airport. Fortunately, I gave up on Time Machine a few months …

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