Code42, the leader in cloud-based endpoint data protection and recovery, announced today that it will focus exclusively on businesses and organizations large and small and will discontinue its offering for personal consumer backup. The small business, education and enterprise markets have proven to be significant growth areas for the company.
Code42 will honor all existing CrashPlan for Home subscriptions, and will wind down support of CrashPlan for Home on Oct. 22, 2018. Its consumer customers will be offered extended subscriptions and special discounts throughout the transition, as well as dedicated support, resources and choices to transition to a new backup solution. To do this, Code42 selected Carbonite as its exclusive referral partner for CrashPlan for Home customers, offering a seamless transition path for those looking for personal backup.
Category: Apps
Zapier Announces Alfred Integration ⇢
I’ve had CMD+Space mapped to Alfred for as long as I can remember. It’s one of those things that makes my computer feel broken if it isn’t running.
Over the last six months, Zapier has become that way too, at least on the web. I have it slinging data into spreadsheets and Todoist on a daily basis.
And now they can talk to each other. I haven’t played a ton with this yet, but the possibilities are exciting. Now using my Mac’s keyboard, I can feed data into a workflow, taking advantage of the 750 apps that Zapier interfaces with. Big thumbs-up from me.
A Silent, 10-minute Song is Climbing the iTunes Charts ⇢
If you’ve ever plugged your phone into your car stereo, only to have the same song start playing every single time, I have some good news for you. Yesterday, a true internet hero named Samir Rezhami released a song on iTunes that’s just 10 minutes of silence – and he named it “A a a a a Very Good Song.” Since the iPhone starts playing music alphabetically when you plug it in to many car stereos, that usually means there’s one song that you hear whether you want to or not. Many songs starting with the letter A have probably been ruined thanks to this quirk – but if you download Rezhami’s creation, you’ll instead have plenty of time to queue up the songs you want to hear.
On GarageBand’s Potential for Podcasters ⇢
Dan Moren, writing at Macworld:
Apple clearly still intends GarageBand to be primarily aimed at musicians; that’s understandable, given the company’s deep roots in the music business. But I wish it would spend a little more time considering those of us who edit non-music audio, because there are some changes that would definitely improve our lives.
It would be great if GarageBand had a podcasting-centric set of tools that would make creating content easier. I use Logic because GarageBand didn’t offer everything I need, but it’s crazy how much overkill I have to live with because of that choice.
MacPaw Acquires The Unarchiver ⇢
The Unarchiver is one of those macOS utilities that every power user should have on their machine. It can unpack just about any archived file you can come across, doing far more than Finder can on its own.
The free app has been rather stagnant over the last few years, but that is going to be changing, as MacPaw has purchased the application:
When MacPaw team found out that [the developer] has no time whatsoever to work on the app, we swooped in and seized the amazing opportunity: to keep The Unarchiver alive for the users. Since millions of people love it and rely on it, it would be truly sad to leave the app with no support for the future OS or with no design updates.
Transmit 5 ⇢
Panic’s FTP client for macOS just received a huge update. The new version is faster, supports more cloud services, and now syncs your servers with other Macs and iOS devices. Interestingly, but not shockingly, Transmit 5 is not in the Mac App Store.
I’ve used Transmit for a decade, and was glad to upgrade today. Go check it out.
Helping Improve Apple Maps, One Demolished Baseball Stadium at a Time
For years, users have been able to make suggestions from within Apple’s Maps app about mislabeled or incorrect information.
Last week, I submitted my first comment. Apple was showing a baseball stadium in Memphis as a landmark. The problem was that the park was torn down in 2005.
Whoops.
I noticed it, and filed a report that the stadium was nothing more than a field now. Last night, I got a push notification:
MarsEdit 4 Public Beta ⇢
Almost every word I publish on 512 Pixels goes through MarsEdit. I’m excited to see this beta:
Because the update contains many new features that my patient users have been waiting to get their hands on, I want to give folks the option of trying it out early. I think the beta release is very stable, but you’ll have to forgive a few rough edges while I finish things up.
Day One Moving to Subscription Model ⇢
Day One is evolving. We’re transitioning to a more stable subscription business model to ensure this app and these services always stick around.
This week we’re releasing the Day One Premium subscription service. It includes the ability to create more than ten journals and access all future premium features.
Day One has been on my iPhone’s home screen for years. It’s a fantastic journaling app for iOS and macOS. Version 2 was a paid upgrade, bringing a new design to the app, as well as a revamped sync service.
Google Backup and Sync
Google is about to replace both its Drive and Photos Uploader app for the Mac with one new application.
The new program will allow users to sync Drive folders and file with their Macs, but also backup the contents of their local disks to Google Drive. I don’t think I’ll use either of those features, but if it improves the reliability of the Google Photos Uploader, I’m in.
Some Sweet Mail.app Plugins ⇢
Over on The Sweet Setup, I’ve rounded up a bunch of plugins you should know about if you use macOS’ default email client.
Dropbox Coming to Files in iOS 11 ⇢
I’ve heard several questions from people wanting to know if Dropbox will be a part of iOS 11’s Files app. The answer is yes:
iOS users have been requesting better file management on iPhone and iPad for a long time. The new Files app, coming later this year, does just that, letting you more easily manage and access files in your Dropbox throughout iOS 11. Much like macOS Finder, Files will give you an easy way to browse, open, edit, move, rename, upload, create folders and download files stored in Dropbox with your iOS device.