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With Today you can keep track of what’s on your plate for any given day without keeping iCal open all the time. Today syncs with iCal and your life’s agenda so daily events & tasks are always available via one, convenient little interface.

Looks handy check it out here – www.secondgearsoftware.com/today

After installing Snow Leopard (in haste) I haven’t found anything that exceptional to keep it going in the face of my main app not working, Adobe Photoshop CS3!

Adobe Photoshop CS3 crashes all the time, I just can’t keep up the workflow with this happening. Adobe don’t support CS3 on Snow Leopard and actually don’t tend to support older versions of there programs for newer operating systems. I have even tried the trial version of CS4 and that crashes too, so I’m left with no other option other than to downgrade Snow Leopard to Leopard!

I wish I had made a backup of Leopard before installing the newer Snow Leopard, I do have a copy but its four weeks since my last backup (let that be a warning to me and others on backing up before you install a new operating OS!!!).

Here’s what you do:

1. clone your drive as is right now – use either Super Duper of Carbon Copy Cloner, I have used the later numerous times and works great!

2. Pop in your Leopard Disc and do an “erase & install”

3. You use migration assistant to bring your apps and data over from the backup.

That should be it, I’m in the process of doing my back up so will update this post with any findings!

UPDATE: 8 September

Well it took almost three days trying to Leopard back. First you can’t use migration assistant to migrate your apps and files from Snow Leopard to Leopard. It will as in my case though try, and with over 250GB of data to transfer I tried three times, and each time it failed right near the end. The thing to look for is when you first start up migration assistant, if the user details you select say “0kb” then it won’t work, as soon as I tried migration assistant from my previous Leopard backup the user I selected stated the true amount of data, then I clicked transfer and one hour and forty five minutes later it was back!

I have my iTunes folder on another drive and when I purchased some new music I got an error where it wouldn’t download (err = 500) or simliar. I found the fix for this here http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1843056

I’d like to report that CS3 and all my apps are once again working!! I’ll think I’ll wait now until everything is tested and working on Snow leopard before I upgrade.

Still have the laptop to fix, which isn’t going to be much fun as I don’t have a very recent backup of that…

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There are some great Adobe Air apps out there, but this has been the most useful one I have used for a while. This will take your pixels measurements and convert them to EM based sizes, it will also give you a style sheet or styles you can copy and paste straight into your style sheets.

www.jameswhittaker.com

Need to download/backup your entire Flickr photos, then this is the tool for you.

Download Flump here

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