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Still very buggy and unstable. High risk to loose data such as professionnal or private calendars.
And at the end of the day, does not work at all as advertised since the sync feature is not effective with PC equiped with Outlook/Exchange.
Thus, if you want to reconcile (through the MM cloud) your data maintained on your PC and your data maintained on your Mac, no chance.
For time being, just a Marketing swindle.

Indispensable for the preference synchronisation alone. Push e-mail to my iPhone is nice bonus!

I have been using SD for about 2 years. I trust completely this robust and high sophisticated app which never betrayed me. Easy to set up and easy to use. Just schedule the copies (carbon or dedicated ones), turn the external hard drive on and relax. I do recommend warmly.

If you're looking for a backup solution, stop looking. SuperDuper! does the job.

Leopard-compatible version 2.5 is now up - sadly, Shirt Pocket's site seems to be down.

This mirror, which I got from MacUpdate, might be helpful:

http://homepage.mac.com/bruce_lacey/.Public/SuperDuper!.dmg

Please don't download from the link, below -- use the standard download link. Connectivity problems have been fixed.

Great product and superior support.
It wasn't working in the morning and I sent in an error report. When I got home that same night I had a complete solution to the problem.
The support in itself is worth the price.

Has some nice features, but unfortunately is slow as molasses. Taking a full backup of my MacBook Pro onto a new WD USB MyBook before Leopard installation, Finder took 20 mins or so for 30 GB of audio, but in two hours Superduper only managed 6GB of my home dir. I then gave up and used tar. Now Time Machine is zipping along in the background, having copied 9 GB in about 10 mins. Prior backups to Firewire disks have also taken the better part of a day, so this is definitely a sub-performer.

geira, SuperDuper does far more than a simple file copy. I use a Firewire WD MyBook Pro and a smart backup takes around 30 minutes, and a full backup every so often takes a few of hours.

When Leopard came out, I tried to replace SuperDuper with Time Machine as my main backup solution. Time Machine is much faster than SuperDuper's Smart backup, but it does not work transparently; it excludes many large files that would slow it down considerably (VMWare virtual machines are an example), and furthermore, it does not support backing up to anything but a disk or network partition. I like to backup to encrypted disk images, so I went back to SuperDuper.

I suspect that a future version of SuperDuper will interface with fseventsd, like Time Machine, and that this will speed up Smart Backups by orders of magnitude. I would gladly pay for a new version when that happens.

In this area, the best app I have ever run. Theoretically dedicated to the desktop productivity and organization (true) but, the more you use it, the more it fits to unexpected use cases. This tool has almost no limit but that of the imagination. Depending on needs, can be associated as well with the efficient and customizable Web search engine called DevonAgent.
The user interface is not very smart nor "modern", the learning curve is a bit long but I do encourage any newbie to be patient because this flexible, robust and reliable app is really worth seeing.

A database? DEVONthink is more: it's a wide open file vacuum that allows for information to be stored, turned into hierarchies and then manipulated. It "associates" information, even sections of stored documents with other documents in the database. It's a thinking database. It recognizes words and terms and suggests associations... It creates links. Frankly, I'm not really doing it justice. The app gets richer over time, but it is necessary to fight through the documentation, which is not plain and assumes too much of the end user. As to the criticisms of UI, they're weak, tantamount to criticizing the Mars Landers for their lack of streamlining. The issue is functionality not appearances.

i've come to rely on this app's AI features - but the developers really need to update the interface. the very loyal user base is being eroded by their, so far, empty promises to release version 2. For compiling a research database nothing can touch it, but it really needs to have a much more attractive, customisable UI - as well as long requested features like tagging, smart folders. Open up Devon alongside something like Journler for example (much less powerful software admittedly) and you'll see what Devon could be.