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File Sync and offline access
Is there an app that can syncronize my documents/pics/music to my ReadyNAS automatically as well as giving me offline/anywhere access to my files? I really love how Apple's TimeMachine lets my frie...
I've rejigged QuickShadow so that it does not matter what user name you log in with, it *should* start and "just work".
It's on my list to make it possible to run as a service as well.
This presents me with some large challenges: My application development framework does not really allow a single app to be built as a service or a standard UI that can run as either at the tick of a checkbox. Its more build one or build the other. (Though it *is* possible to have an app that switches - its just really hard.)
The second part of why its difficult is that a service cannot ever have an active UI (and doubly so in Vista and Win7). So it's neccessary to split the application into 2 parts - the front end UI part which can come and go, and the back end part which sits there chugging away.
If I'm grappling with these problems, you can be sure that the developer teams of other products are doing likewise. Its solvable (and I even have some template code running to get things going as a service), and I hope to do it some time. My imperative with QuickShadow Backup 2 was to get out the enhanced feature set that was there, it took a long time to get that developed, tested, etc. Adding the ability to run as a service had the potential to push out the release date by some months. (If that sounds extreme, an organisation I used to be involved with had a similar issue - its been on their books for 4 years - each developer that looks at solving the similar (but not identical) problem comes out with a dazed look after about a months effort, shaking their head and muttering dark thoughts.)
It's on my list to make it possible to run as a service as well.
This presents me with some large challenges: My application development framework does not really allow a single app to be built as a service or a standard UI that can run as either at the tick of a checkbox. Its more build one or build the other. (Though it *is* possible to have an app that switches - its just really hard.)
The second part of why its difficult is that a service cannot ever have an active UI (and doubly so in Vista and Win7). So it's neccessary to split the application into 2 parts - the front end UI part which can come and go, and the back end part which sits there chugging away.
If I'm grappling with these problems, you can be sure that the developer teams of other products are doing likewise. Its solvable (and I even have some template code running to get things going as a service), and I hope to do it some time. My imperative with QuickShadow Backup 2 was to get out the enhanced feature set that was there, it took a long time to get that developed, tested, etc. Adding the ability to run as a service had the potential to push out the release date by some months. (If that sounds extreme, an organisation I used to be involved with had a similar issue - its been on their books for 4 years - each developer that looks at solving the similar (but not identical) problem comes out with a dazed look after about a months effort, shaking their head and muttering dark thoughts.)
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