I reformatted my laptop today. It's something I like to do from time to time. It gives me that new laptop feeling and allows me to reevaluate which applications are truly important and are worth my harddrive space.
Anyhow, usually, a reformat means reconfiguring a bunch of stuff. But, with cloud computing and synching, reformatting gets easier every time. (I don't restore much from backups. For me, the point is a clean start. I backup iTunes, my Web Receipts Folders, iPhoto and a few important documents.)
Today, I reinstalled NetNewsWire and it immediately synched itself to Newsgator and my feeds were right back in the state I like them. I enter my gmail settings in Mail.app, and my emails are all right on Google's imap server waiting for me. I synch iCal up to Google Calendar, and poof, my events are right back on my computer.
Thanks to subversion, all my source code is easily checked out to working directories. So, in a very short time indeed, I have a fresh clean laptop that has the most important stuff and none of the old debris.
Anyhow, usually, a reformat means reconfiguring a bunch of stuff. But, with cloud computing and synching, reformatting gets easier every time. (I don't restore much from backups. For me, the point is a clean start. I backup iTunes, my Web Receipts Folders, iPhoto and a few important documents.)
Today, I reinstalled NetNewsWire and it immediately synched itself to Newsgator and my feeds were right back in the state I like them. I enter my gmail settings in Mail.app, and my emails are all right on Google's imap server waiting for me. I synch iCal up to Google Calendar, and poof, my events are right back on my computer.
Thanks to subversion, all my source code is easily checked out to working directories. So, in a very short time indeed, I have a fresh clean laptop that has the most important stuff and none of the old debris.
