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Where I humiliate myself in public: release notes, backup deep-dives, and various and sundry other things that strike my fancy.

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2026 25

  1. SuperDuper, Preview, iTunes, Network Copies, etc.
  2. Quick Security Update
  3. Controlled Craziness
  4. Pushing the Boundaries
  5. It's the Little Things
  6. ⚡️Turbo Tips
  7. Do the Right Thing
  8. Proof of (Boot) Life
  9. Laboring Day
  10. Daring to Recommend
  11. Testing
  12. Estimates
  13. To Cache or Cache Not
  14. Catching Up
  15. Network Intermediate Mount Re-Managed
  16. Intention vs. Reality vis-à-vis Network Backups
  17. Bits und so say "Es ist schön"!
  18. Recommended by the TWiTs!
  19. Here We Go Again
  20. The New Zoo Reviews
  21. Your Edge Case Has an Edge Case
  22. Hypercritical!
  23. Dog Dazed
  24. his post announcing version 4
  25. SuperDuper v3.12 Now Available!

2025 8

  1. SuperDuper Security Update v3.11
  2. Three Steps Forward
  3. Deeper Into Tahoe
  4. v4.0 Beta 1 Now Available
  5. Wrapping Up v3.10
  6. WGTH & SSDs, Redux
  7. Improving Boot on Ventura and later
  8. Happy New Fix!

2024 8

  1. Beta-ing
  2. this happened before
  3. Brighten the Corners
  4. SuperDuper! v3.9.1 Now Available
  5. Quick Fix
  6. New macOS / Adoption
  7. Polishing (and RIP Haku)
  8. Shadows and Tall Trees

2023 6

  1. Turntable Listening Experiment and Wrap-Up
  2. Snow Ventura
  3. Prompting Problems
  4. Sonoma!
  5. You Got Culpa on My Mea!
  6. Wait, Hold On!

2022 4

  1. Analyzed, Statically
  2. Ventura Highway
  3. Silly Season
  4. The "Roll Up Some Fixes" Release!

2021 8

  1. Plastic Fantastic
  2. actually an Apple issue
  3. Tweaking
  4. Native Apple Silicon, Big Sur & Monterey
  5. Really Riding a Bike
  6. Like Riding a Bike
  7. Finally.
  8. That's Big SIR to You!

2020 7

  1. Big Sur
  2. Under Construction
  3. I Like Batteries!
  4. Never Look a Gift Fix in the Mouth
  5. Black Boxes and Bugs
  6. Anniversaries
  7. Modern Times

2019 16

  1. Happy Thanksgiving Update!
  2. Breaking the Tape
  3. Continued Cranking
  4. Hoops, Jumped Through
  5. Rolling, Rolling, Rolling...
  6. Nothing Up My Sleeves Redux
  7. Third Time's a Charm
  8. Beta 2: Floating Owners Strike Back
  9. SuperDuper! for Catalina
  10. Quickly Getting to the Point
  11. Unrelated Stuff I Like
  12. Pictures at a Kernel Exhibition
  13. Up and down the coast
  14. SuperDuper v3.2.5 Now Available!
  15. RIP Kenneth Nanian - 1928-2019
  16. A Full and Complete Accounting of the Benefits of the TouchBar

2018 16

  1. ...But Sometimes You Need UI
  2. The Best UI is No UI
  3. Waking the Neighbors
  4. Smarty Pants
  5. 3.2 B3: The Revenge!
  6. Backup on Connect, launchd and ThrottleInterval
  7. Technical Update!
  8. macOS Mojave: Opening New Vistas in Security for Mac Users
  9. iFixit Drive Replacement with SuperDuper!
  10. Antivirus Shenanigans, Part 87655
  11. Quick Mojave Public Beta 2 (DP3) Tip
  12. On My Mark
  13. just in case
  14. All Apologies
  15. When I'm 64
  16. 12 Years a Bug

2017 15

  1. Snapshot Surprise!
  2. It's Not a Turkey
  3. Bad Craziness, Good Release!
  4. The Beta 7 Spooktacular!
  5. Workaround Turtle
  6. Fraternal Twins
  7. Automatic Transmission
  8. Forward Into the Past!
  9. Relax, Have a Homebrew!
  10. So Many Rabbit Holes, So Little Time
  11. It's Awfully Quiet Out There
  12. Can You Dig It?
  13. Murtaugh's Lament
  14. Cheat Sheet
  15. News on the March!

2016 1

  1. SuperDuper! v2.9 - anti-AntiVirus (+ macOS Sierra)

2015 5

  1. The Traditional Post-Release Debrief
  2. Oh Capitan, My Capitan!
  3. Oh yeah? Well, lock *this*!
  4. From Hell's Heart I...Oh, Never Mind!
  5. Uncovering our rootlessness

2014 3

  1. SuperDuper - Now with added Superness!
  2. Hit me two times
  3. Take a breath

2013 2

  1. Paving the Road to Hell
  2. Mavericks

2012 3

  1. 30-day notice of awesomeness
  2. Talkin' about 2.7's rollout
  3. Silence is golden, but it's time to talk

2011 6

  1. Racer I(talian), Part Four: Canazei to Corvara
  2. Racer I(talian), Part Three: Enter the Dolomites
  3. Racer I(talian), Part Two
  4. Racer I(talian), Part One
  5. Maratona dles Dolomites and an Update
  6. Riding a Lion

2010 2

  1. Spinning round and round
  2. Mac keeps waking on its own? Try this.

2009 11

  1. SuperDuper! v2.6.2 now available!
  2. How Ya Doin'?
  3. Squashed
  4. SuperDuper! v2.6.1 released
  5. A Quick Debriefing
  6. SuperDuper v2.6 released
  7. Monster Truck Friday (Friday, Friday?)
  8. A bigger tease
  9. Short term tease
  10. Snow Leopard and SuperDuper!
  11. Happy 2009 to All!

2008 9

  1. Boom
  2. For Those Addicted to Clack...
  3. Anyone for tennis?
  4. Where it's at...
  5. SuperDuper! 2.5 Released!
  6. For those about to ship...
  7. Workaround runaround
  8. I'm Bugged
  9. Quick Update

2007 14

  1. Slowest! Update! Ever!
  2. Updating the updates
  3. Time Marches On!
  4. Leopard Status Update
  5. Time's Arrow Redux
  6. Linklove
  7. One Year Later
  8. Back to Work!
  9. Iphone
  10. OSX Server Security Update Warning
  11. I Hate The Nokia E61i
  12. Big Days
  13. Ocean of words
  14. Clicking away

Undated 154

  1. Tip for Seagate SATA drive owners
  2. One long dog
  3. A different Eddy entirely
  4. Never hear the end of it
  5. WM/UIQ/WTF
  6. Congratulations, Iron Man!
  7. Regaining a customer
  8. Small change, big impact
  9. This American Life
  10. Bye bye, Buddy
  11. Apple TV - codename:tv
  12. Infrant Expansion
  13. Good-bye, iSight
  14. Moving Your iTunes Library
  15. Airport Disks
  16. Comfy sweater - marked down!
  17. HP: you rascal you!
  18. This product does not contain nuts.
  19. Adding commands to netTunes
  20. Mini Us
  21. Winter Sporting
  22. Happy New Year!
  23. An Embarrassment of Eddys
  24. Older, wiser. But mostly older.
  25. Catching up
  26. Fall
  27. Bad trees better watch out...
  28. Time's Arrow
  29. It's always something #289
  30. New netTunes and launchTunes!
  31. Taiko
  32. Wwdc
  33. Two Pounds
  34. Meeses
  35. Waiting...
  36. Routine
  37. Missed Relay
  38. Three Tufts
  39. Tired
  40. That Bites
  41. Cows
  42. Robots, too
  43. What's taking so long?
  44. Quick server follow-up fun
  45. And we're back!
  46. Been a while!
  47. Moving day
  48. Backslash in AppleScript - Japan Style!
  49. Small World
  50. I/O Error Recovery
  51. Network Backup Drive Recommendation
  52. Great deal
  53. SuperDuper 2.1.2 now available
  54. Rowr
  55. Memory
  56. My Robots
  57. Luminous Love
  58. Enclosure Reliability
  59. Hoarse-ing around
  60. We all scream
  61. Gemilicious!
  62. Macworld UK Nomination!
  63. Exhaustive/exhausting
  64. Amusing myself
  65. Counterbalance
  66. Ketzl on TV!
  67. Intel Mac DVD Disk Utility Problems
  68. Kudos for Shirt Pocket and SuperDuper!
  69. MCE Experience vs. Comcast DVR
  70. Unexpected birthday
  71. Pick of the week!
  72. Get Hustlin'
  73. Patience is a virtue
  74. Intel Mac I/O Speed
  75. Horn tootin'
  76. More than a little true
  77. Unremovable files
  78. DM's Relentless March
  79. Nice Software
  80. The Simple Life
  81. Grinder Obsessed
  82. Getting Right Back to Work
  83. Going Universal
  84. Slobber, slobber
  85. Toshiro Mifune Gets His Organize On!
  86. UK Macworld Chimes In!
  87. MacFixIt Toolbox Awards, Awarded!
  88. Obligatory New Year Post
  89. Our Christmas Gift: the Past Year with Ketzl
  90. Music subscription services don't always suck
  91. Sony VGX-XL1 Quick Tip
  92. Sony and the MCE
  93. Eddy
  94. Media Centers
  95. Emerging from the crush, relatively unscathed.
  96. There's always something
  97. At long last.
  98. One year ago today
  99. In praise of Bruce
  100. Hello? It's your other anchor calling. Hello?
  101. Full stop.
  102. Yakity yak.
  103. Scribble, scribble redux
  104. Late Night in the Pocket
  105. Scribble, scribble...
  106. The Ninety-Nine-Per-Cent Solution
  107. Slowly going insane while waiting for a fix
  108. Shiny New Squeezebox!
  109. Paper Management on the Macintosh
  110. Lies, Damn Lies and AppleScripting
  111. Gentlemen, Start Your Clicking!
  112. Blogrolling in our time...
  113. Burning with Optimism's Flames
  114. Teddy the Bear gives SuperDuper! a Hug
  115. Greenman
  116. Ms. Cranky Pants (Alice Wang) Loves SuperDuper!
  117. 43 Folders Gets Things Done with SuperDuper!
  118. Summer's Cauldron
  119. All of a Sudden (It's Too Late)
  120. Wait 'Till Your Boat Goes Down
  121. Blame the Weather
  122. Another gem!
  123. Pavlov's Beep
  124. Bang & Olufsen - CE UI
  125. The Limited
  126. How much?
  127. The Missing Woof
  128. It's a gem!
  129. Ketzl at the Beach
  130. Pull up! Pull up!
  131. The Usability Test
  132. NetNewsWire v2.0 Design
  133. Scheduling: Losing the Light
  134. Schedule This!
  135. Dogs in Wheelchairs - Life with a DM Dog
  136. Bob "Dr. Mac" Levitus Loves SuperDuper!
  137. Behind the curtain
  138. Ted Leung on SuperDuper! and Support
  139. Dog Nurse, Going Macintosh and the Birth of netTunes
  140. SuperDuper! design error #78,272
  141. Mister Squid Hates SuperDuper!
  142. Dan Slagle loves SuperDuper!
  143. MacCompanion Loves SuperDuper!
  144. Is it safe?
  145. Khoi Vinh Loves SuperDuper!
  146. Super, thanks for asking!
  147. Macworld Loves SuperDuper!
  148. New netTunes & the Release Jitters!
  149. How "unique"!
  150. TUAW loves SuperDuper!
  151. So if a witch weighs the same as a duck...
  152. Floating ownership nearly sinks us
  153. Tiger Compatibility
  154. Where I Attempt to Explain Why I'm Doing This.