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TWO REVIEWS FOR THE PRICE OF ONE
Macintosh backup with Palm Buddy
By Jim McCarthy and S. Fred Green a.k.a. Fredlet

A decision befitting Solomon (or an editor with a good, biblical name like David)
Sometimes editors work in mysterious ways. Such is the case with this article. We had originally intended to do a series of articles on the "Buddy" backup twins: Backup Buddy and Palm Buddy. We had recruited two of our favorite authors, Jim McCarthy and Fredlet, to do one of each. Alas, wires got crossed. Somehow, they both wound up writing articles on the Macintosh variant, Palm Buddy. Honestly, we can't tell if we short-circuited here or were misunderstood there. In any case, we wound up with two Palm Buddy articles and no Backup Buddy articles. What's an editor to do?

In a decision befitting the great Solomon, who, it is told, arbitrated over two mothers who claimed parentage of a single infant and offered to cleave said infant in half as settlement, we had to arbitrate over the fate of these two Palm Buddy articles. (Ok, so it's not quite as biblical in proportion, but it was still a sticky wicket and led to quite a nice run-on sentence.)

And, befitting our glorious stature as editors, we decided to, ah, well, cop-out. We're running both. Since both have distinctly different styles, and since both actually cover the product from slightly different approaches, we decided to give you both perspectives. Our thanks to Jim and Fredlet for putting up with this. And, in a fit of even more glorious editorial effectiveness, we've managed to still get you a fine Backup Buddy review, running elsewhere in this issue. -- DG

Jim McCarthy's Palm Buddy review
Palm Buddy is a dynamic, desktop synchronization program for the Macintosh. It offers both innovative, easy, and fast backup, as well as a software installation process for the Palm computer that will be quite familiar to the avid Macintosh user.

Using a Macintosh Finder-like interface, the power of drag and drop technology, and a robust plug-in architecture, Palm Buddy creates a versatile, easy-to-use desktop backup utility and installation package that should make a PC PalmPilot enthusiast jealous.

"Let me say that I am just plum tickled to death (as my crazy grandmother says) to be seeing more fully featured stuff out there for the Mac. -- Fredlet"

Palm Buddy not only backs up and installs only the files you want to backup or install when you want to backup or install them (you following all this?), Palm Buddy also translates TEXT files on the fly into Aportis or TealDoc formats. This is most cool.


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