Call me crazy, but I still prefer ASR for disk cloning. It’s simple and accurate. But ASR in Lion no longer allows file-level cloning. This means that block copying is now the only option. Block copying is great, but it requires the unmounting of both disks. This means that cloning a boot drive while booted [...]
Apple has released Final Cut Pro X 10.0.1, a small point release with some important new — or maybe I should say “returned” — features. Most important among these is XML import/export which should allow users of FCPX to open their legacy FCP projects. But here’s the grind: I’m not sure how you’re supposed to [...]
Google has recently been rolling out redesigns of their flagship products, Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Maps, and, of course, Search. I have to say, I’m both pleased to see it and impressed with the results. I’ve argued several times now that, as great as Google’s products are, they could be made even better if [...]
People keep writing about Final Cut Pro X, and the constant refrain seems to be the same one I wondered in my last article: Is Apple done with the pros? Sachin Agarwal, who worked on the original Final Cut Pro, and then founded Posterous, flat out says yes: “The pro market is too small for [...]
Final Cut Pro X Is Here I have used Final Cut Pro since grad school, which is to say about 1999. A bit over a decade. The first version I had that was usable was version 1.2. At that time it was my very favorite piece of software, partly because I liked what I did [...]
Just wanted to share some of my initial reactions to Apple’s recent announcements at WWDC 2011. iCloud First off, iCloud. iCloud is really the engine behind the bulk of this year’s significant announcements. As I see it, iCloud provides centralized storage and services that are primarily aimed at managing all your various devices — your [...]
Apple recently gave a sneak peek to some very lucky folks at NAB of the upcoming release of Final Cut Pro, now dubbed Final Cut Pro X. The “X” seems appropriate as it looks like Final Cut has finally made it into the world of modern applications written for a mature, modern and cool-as-hell Operating [...]
Another Xcode update, another bad App Store experience. This one was the best so far, but still not perfect. After the last update I pretty much just gave up and started keeping the Install Xcode.app in the /Applications folder where it’s expected, despite the 4.5 gigs it takes up. So when I went to update [...]
So after purchasing and downloading Xcode via the App Store only to discover I didn’t have enough disk space to install the app, I came up with an acceptable, if less than ideal, workaround. I’m not terribly happy with the state of things, but hey, at least I was able to get things back to [...]
I have to say, installing Xcode 4 from the Mac App Store was one of the worst software installation experiences I’ve ever had. Thwarted Expectations For starters, the big appeal to me of downloading and installing stuff from the App Store is that I don’t have to manage it. All that management stuff is handled [...]