John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin do some follow-up on the topic of backups, then talk about possible motivations behind the Mac OS X Lion features Apple has revealed so far, the future of desktop computing, and what might have caused iPhoto '11 to be worse than the previous version.

Links for this episode:

• StorageReview.com: a great place to research hard disk mechanisms before buying
• CrashPlan: another popular personal backup service
• Arq: an S3-backed, extremely Mac-savvy backup product
• PGP Whole Disk Encryption
• Apple's preview of Mac OS X Lion, October 20, 2010 (starts at 52:55)
• The Incomparable: a geeky podcast sometimes featuring John Siracusa
• Backup Bouncer: a Mac backup robustness test suite
• Bonus link! Dolly Drive: Time Machine in the cloud

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