Mac Powell users episode 715 to gridfinity and beyond.

Hey everybody, David Sparks, I am joined by Mr. Stephen Hackett, who was back in his studio.

Did your studio have a name, Stephen?

It's the pod cabin.

The pod cabin, of course, how can I forget that? Yeah, Stephen's back in his pod cabin,

with us having successfully done a big job for us in Jude and a bunch of other stuff.

Are you drowning in calendars at this point, Stephen? I imagine you just buried in piles of

calendars. Yeah, calendars and shipping material. Stuff's going to start going out later in the

week, so it is a busy time around here. I had kind of forgotten about it, and I came from

vacation to open the doors like, oh yeah, you're waiting for me. Here we go.

Yeah, yeah. Well, either way, we are the Mac Powell users. It's time for a feedback episode.

We've got a lot of feedback from the listeners and some other stuff to talk about that's going to

be fun today. On more power users, which is the ad-free extended version of the show,

I'm going to be doing a check-in on my Mac studio now that I've been using it a while. I have

thoughts, so we'll be talking about that. If you want to check that out, you can learn more

relate out of him slash MPU, but I think Stephen, we should just jump into it, man. Let's hit it.

That sounds good. Let's start with some listener feedback. We had a note from Jan,

directed towards me, about my backup strategy. I had mentioned at some point on the show that my

MacBook Pro would wake up every night and then run a backup, and Jan wanted to know how I was

going about that. I'm using the excellent carbon copy cloner. There are a couple of great backup

utilities for the Mac. Superduper is the other one. I think they're the best two, at least in my

experience, but carbon copy cloner is the one that I use. It is a really full feature, and I'll

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