Listener Mark sent in this cool link to a Photo essay on Business 2.0. They had someone design some products they are dreaming are in Apple’s future.

Dream Apple Products from Business 2.0

In a question left at the MacCast Feedback site, http://mcfeedback.blogspot.com listener Shayne wanted to know about backing up OS X. There are several options available depending on what level of backup you want.

1) If you have a .Mac account you can get Backup2 from Apple for free. It allows you to backup to disk or removable drives and can be scheduled.

2) SilverKeeper is a free backup utility from LaCie and does basic incremental syncing of files and can be scheduled.

3) Dantz Retrospect Desktop is a commercial app ($99.00 USD) that should meet most backup needs.

4) Carbon Copy Cloner is a utility that will create a complete bootable backup image of your entire drive. It also offer syncronization and scheduling of backups. It is also free.

Another MacCast listener, Paul, recommeneds using the UNIX command line utility rsync. He even provided this link to an article he wrote on the topic.

Here is a picture of another get Mac setup from Randy. Looks like a nice place to work. Randy’s comments are below.

Randy says: Enclosed is a photo of my “playroom” at home. Next to my dual 2.5 G5 is an empty G5 box I bought off of Ebay and filled it with 250 gig drives. So, there are 2 – 250 sata drives in the g5, 6 firewire enclosed 250 gig drives in the empty G5 box and there are also anoth 2 250 gig drives on the top counter (yes, 10 -250 gig drives) All for my HOBBY of Photography!

Here is the Silicon Graphics monitor adapter that was mentioned on the Monday March 7th show.

MacCast listener Rick sent in a photo of his Mac set up and said this:

…I noticed your page has photos that listeners have sent of their systems – well, I took a pic of my oldest Mac (a now non-workin Mac SE/30 that I bought for £20 from my Math tutor’s son who had it via University in Australia of all places and they had it from a University in California) and my iMac G4.

That’s not the whole retro collection, there’s a Mac Colour Classic that I bought in a charity shop for £12, ‘cus they couldn’t work out that you had to turn it on via the keyboard. I also have a few older PowerMacs (6100, 7100, G3 Platinum, G3 Blue). I don’t have room for all these Macs – but I keep collecting them!

MacCast listener PJK who does the PJK Podcast sent in this pict of his home setup. I wonder if he is always that neat?

Listener Zack sent this photo of his setup.

Zack says, “Here’s a pic of my iMac G3, iPod 4G, and Movie Box DV”

Here is some feedback on the MacMini from a MacCast listener.

…More than anything, the unit is the perfect size (not much bigger than an external hard drive). In addition, it is very quiet, though the fan will run at full speed under long periods of very high CPU usage. After the CPU usage drops, the fan quickly silences.

Coming from a 667MHz PowerBook G4, the Mac mini is a respectable upgrade and would make a very capable auxiliary, or even primary, computer for most users.

Below is a picture of the Mac mini next to my external hard drive.