MUST HAVE APP: PHOTO TRANSFER APP

Posted by Prep To Post on Apr 12, 2012 in APPS & SOFTWARE | 0 comments

If you’re like me, then you like to have everything synced. I want to be able to see what I took on my iPhone on my Macbook Pro or on my Mac Pro and vice versa. I figure we spend enough money on technology, it should work the way we need it to. I guess I enjoy having everything consolidated so I don’t have to take so many steps to access my data, whether it be documents or photos or movies. This is why Apple is so successful. iCloud consolidates your data from your iOS devices to your desktop devices and all the Apple devices work seamlessly together for the most part.

MUST HAVE APP: SUPER DUPER

Posted by Prep To Post on Apr 11, 2012 in APPS & SOFTWARE | 0 comments

Data backup strategies are as varied as they are numerous. There are several dedicated backup programs that automate the process for you, and even OS X has their own built in data backup solution called Time Machine. How you perform your backups isn’t quite as important as long as you ARE doing backups.

The strategy I use for backups is actually quite simple.

MUST HAVE APP: DISKSOMNIA

Posted by Prep To Post on Apr 10, 2012 in APPS & SOFTWARE | 3 comments

I’m very impatient when it comes to computers. I think it’s because we pay such a high premium for digital content creating workstations, and we just want to get what we pay for. We drop thousands of dollars on RAM, the fastest processors we can afford, and the fastest and most reliable storage possible. One of the most important factors in workstation performance is disk speed. As of right now, I am still using 100% magnetic hard drives as opposed to the newer, much faster solid state drives (SSD). I plan on switching over once I am comfortable with their reliability and lifespan. Here’s how I have my Mac Pro set up – a 10K RPM system drive, a 10K RPM work drive, 2 striped 10K RPM scratch drives, and a 2TB striped array of 1TB 7200 RPM drives for online temporary backup storage. In addition, I also have two external 4-disk drive eSATA arrays that serve as additional backup that can be easily switched from online to offline. The rest of my data gets copied onto bare drives that I store offline for archiving. Boxes of film have now been replaced with cases upon cases of hard drives.

MUST HAVE APP: FOREVERSAVE

Posted by Prep To Post on Jun 18, 2011 in APPS & SOFTWARE | 3 comments

If I had a dollar for every time Photoshop crashed on me when I had forgotten to save, oh, an hour’s worth of work, I would be a rich man. All you have to do is take a look at my past Facebook and Twitter updates cursing the very existence of Adobe to understand how devastating it is to lose work. I always thought, of all the programs out there that needed to have an autosave feature, Photoshop should be at the top of the list.

Well, that day has come. I discovered Foreversave by Tool Force Software a few months ago

MUST HAVE APP: YOUSENDIT

Posted by Prep To Post on Jun 3, 2011 in APPS & SOFTWARE | 0 comments

I remember when I used to have to burn CD’s and DVD’s to send files off to clients. It was costly to say the least. There were FTP solutions as well, but you had to login and use an FTP client and it always felt so cumbersome for me. That was until I discovered Yousendit 5-6 years ago.

With my Yousendit account, I can send files up to 2GB each, and honestly the transfer rate is quite fast. They offer different priced plans for your needs in a monthly subscription format, or you can pay