World's most piratical Mac utility -- arRsync
Avast, me hearties, as Erica noted earlier, today be Talk Like a Pirate Day. We be scourin' the series of tubes makin' up this World Wide Web, hunting for buried software treasure in honor of the occasion, and here you'll find a prime piece of plunder: arRsync, a graphical front end for the UNIX rsync utility.arRsync is only at version 0.4.1, and may not have the polish and refinement of other rsync handlers like RipCord and RsyncX, but for simple and low-impact backups it may be worth a try. Besides, where else are you going to get an icon like that? Arrr.
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Macdaddy said 11:24AM on 9-19-2007
"Besides, where else are you going to get an icon like that? Arrr."
Hummm.....
http://www.geekpulp.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2007/01/WindowsLiveWriter/WindowsHomeServer_98DD/windows-logo%5B5%5D1.jpg
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Aron Trimble said 11:48AM on 9-19-2007
I was trying to use RsyncX to backup one drive to another drive that was hooked up to my airport extreme... It failed every time after about 10 minutes. I finally gave up and hooked them both up to my mac! It would sure be nice if arRsync would do this for me...
Any suggestions for doing a backup to an airport disk? Bueller? Bueller?
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Tom said 12:00PM on 9-19-2007
Arrr! Here be another app ye might find worthy:
http://captainftp.xdsnet.de/
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Chris Coleman said 12:22PM on 9-19-2007
Go figure, I would have guessed Colloquy, or maybe Transmission. Oh you mean with a pirate-sounding name!
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derek said 12:56PM on 9-19-2007
Arr sorry Aron Trimble! Can't help you matey! Unless you talk like a pirate... arrr...
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Charles said 1:19PM on 9-19-2007
These are the same family that was on ABC Wife Swap a few weeks ago! How could anyone not remember them?
Lived like pigs.
ARRGH, swine!
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hightechdad said 1:42PM on 9-19-2007
Arrrrr...if you have an iPhone and the application installer, you can "piratize" your friends picture. More info here: http://weblog.techdad.net/2007/09/19/iphone-new-pirate-app-for-tlapd/
-HighTechDad
[NOTE: The original post on Pirates.app is on TUAW from this morning, and the app was written by Erica Sadun.]
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Aron Trimble said 1:56PM on 9-19-2007
Arrr mateys! It was me mate before - I've gone and had him walk the plank for his prim ways!
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jordan Merrick said 3:12PM on 9-19-2007
this scurrvy piece o' software seems perfect if you want to sync 2 machines with data to the same folders and not have to do with the hassle of rsync. I like to keep my RW application support folders the same on my macbook and mac mini, so this will ease the job for me :)
avast ye
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