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      Snowy
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      Doug, I cycle hardware through. I try refresh every 2 or so years and give my old model, still in good shape, to a family member either free or at a low price. The rising tide raises all boats approach. And backup ALL The time, on-site, off-site and to the cloud!

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      • DougNgD
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        I upgraded the hard drive twice and the battery twice on my mid 2010, and backup monthly. I rely on my computer too much for day to day stuff to risk not having one, so I'm of the thinking to upgrade before the hardware finally shits the bed

        Snowy, what do you use for offsite and cloud backup?

        I know violence is not the answer, I got it wrong on purpose

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          Snowy
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          @DougNg I use backblaze https://www.backblaze.com/. $5/month, unlimited backup and restore. Native OSX app, multiple restore points, can get a HDD shipped from them if you need a large restore etc.

          And their hardware design for backup is open sourced, which is very cool too;
          https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-storage-pod-4/

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            Snowy
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            I do spot restores from them to verify they're writing real data, 100% so far, obviously.

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            • mclaincauseyM
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              Backblaze is cool, love their appliance. I use a local provider though, Crashplan. RAID NAS headed by Mac Mini HTPC replicates to Crasplan in the cloud. If I need my shit I can pay them a visit with a hard drive or an array.

              Think it, be it.

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                Snowy
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                yeah they're all pretty good at that level (carbonite's another one). Awesome they're physically local to you! Have you popped in to test it out / check out their office? :).

                I've read about a few more data integrity issues with crashplan than with backblaze over the years, which is why I've kept with backblaze…..

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                • mclaincauseyM
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                  That may be with their peer to peer platform. I use a standard replication. Haven't visited but I found out last weekend I know their CFO

                  Think it, be it.

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                  • GilesG
                    Giles
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                    We use Mac Mail at IHUKHQ.

                    We use IMAP. We have certain email addresses that go to all of us (sales, shop etc etc).  And we have an understanding about who answers what, but we would like to get a bit more sophisticated.

                    So for example, without CCing the other members, is there some way we can let them know that a particular email has been handled.  Or if it cant be answered by (say) me, I can flag it for action by someone else.

                    Any ideas?

                    "OK face up to it - you're useless but generally pretty honest and straightforward . . . it's a rare combination of qualities that I have come to admire in you" - Geo 2011

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                      It's one of those things that there is no system that works for everyone in e-mail. To do it proper you need to move from e-mails to ticketing systems and let e-mails forward to the system and use it to reply from etc.

                      In e-mail itself, the 2 methods I've seen work;
                      a)1 each person gets a colour, when a message is picked up or allocated to/by that person, the colour is updated
                      b)Create folders for each person, drag any items to work on into the folder and leave as unread in there. Any mail not in a folder is yet to be picked up by anyone.

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                      • GilesG
                        Giles
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                        Thanks Snowy…......G

                        "OK face up to it - you're useless but generally pretty honest and straightforward . . . it's a rare combination of qualities that I have come to admire in you" - Geo 2011

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                        • mclaincauseyM
                          mclaincausey
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                          How about these guys?

                          http://freshdesk.com/helpdesk-features

                          Think it, be it.

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                            Snowy
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                            The Collaboration App getting all the buzz at the moment is Slack,

                            https://slack.com/

                            Don't think it's exactly what you're after.

                            If you want to move beyond e-mail there's a whole ton of solutions out there. Asana, ZenDesk, Flow, all come to mind and can often integrate with each other. Essentially you'd be turning e-mail into a ticket/task/item, and then working on/through that.

                            The slack video is a nice 3 minute video if nothing else 🙂

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                              shego
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                              Zendesk released 'inbox' https://signup.zendesk.com/inbox

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                                @Megatron1505:

                                Replace, the SSD has made my 2010 MBP feel like new. I seriously cannot recommend this upgrade enough, my MBP was basically a paperweight and now it runs like a dream, and the fan has not kicked in once since I upgraded either.

                                Yeah, I saw this happen! My early 2009 Mac Pro is letterally  reborn with a new 250GB samsung SSD. ah, don't forget to catch trimenabler, it makes believe your mac that the new ssd is  Apple and activates trim functions!

                                IH-888S-142OD

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                                • Megatron1505M
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                                  Thanks @georgeel , I had meant to do that but forgot (as usual), just sorted it thanks to your reminder  🙂

                                  Made in England, clothed in Japan, fed in America and drunk in Belgium !

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                                  • georgeelG
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                                    So I bought the iPhone 6, the small one. I left the iPhone + because it is too big compared to me.
                                    6=ok, I keep it in my front pocket, on the left.
                                    I don't like android devices for one reason only: the audio apps (synthesizers, music studios etc …). Too few and too much latency! Apple devices are pro level audio units.

                                    iPhone 6 has left me puzzled. Its look is not much of a surprise: it is nothing more than a giant iPod Touch. And the camera lens sticking out is a drop in style.

                                    I do not believe that the supremacy of Apple is going to last much longer. Speaking of design, I fell in love with the Huawei Ascend P7. I find it wonderful!
                                    When I saw it I thought: this is the future!

                                    IH-888S-142OD

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                                      Delete everything I've written above. I made ​​a mistake. iPhone 6 is the best phone on the market. Apple is the present for sure, and maybe the future as well. Huawey is cute, but has a long way to go.

                                      IH-888S-142OD

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                                      • rubenR
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                                        I jumped ship for 36 hours, tried so hard to love the Sony z3c but the 6 just won in every single way for me. Glad I have android a chance but never again.

                                        Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

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                                          One of the guys I work with was recently given a brand new Windows Nokia top of the line phone. He lasted 2 weeks. Said it was the best advertising for iPhone he's ever experienced. Went out about bought a phone retail as apposed to having to use company provided windows phone.

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                                          • mclaincauseyM
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                                            So funny how individual our experiences are. Apple has been a complete train wreck for me and many of my friends since 7.0, and I've had a pretty good experience (with some compromises, but everything generally works) on a top of the line Windows phone.

                                            Think it, be it.

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