I wanted to backup that folder to the cloud more specifically to Google Drive. A new Google Search and then I found a great piece of software called MacDropAny by the young developer Sebastian Hallum Clarke! Basically it allows you to keep any folder synced to the cloud and supports many cloud service providers: Dropbox, Box.com, Copy, Google Drive, iClouDrive, MediaFire or Microsoft SkyDrive. I got the MacDropAny 2.12.zip zip package and extracted the. Moved it to Mac OS Applications folder and opened it. It asks you to choose a folder to sync with the cloud. I wanted to select that Skype chat history folder described above. Problem: that folder is stored inside the Library folder that is hidden by default in Mac OS and so it won’t show up in the list of folders available to MacDropAny. Now when asked to Choose a folder, Library will be available:įigure 1 - Select Skype user folder (lenielmacaferi) to be backed up to the cloudĪfter clicking Choose we need to select the Cloud service provider where to store the files:įigure 2 - Selecting cloud service provider To fix that, follow what’s described here. Then it’s necessary to choose where to store the files in Google Drive. Shadow Blade: Reload ($4.99) is not a sequel to Shadow Blade ($1.99), but an enhanced re-release of the original. The best way to describe this in relation to the original Shadow Blade is that this is like returning to a piece of work completed a while ago, and doing some further work to it to improve it in some way. For example, one of my favorite bands, Fair to Midland, had a bunch of songs that appeared on earlier albums that they cleaned up and re-recorded along with new material for their major label debut, Fables from a Mayfly. Now, I came in to Fair to Midland well after Fables from a Mayfly was released, so my emotional attachment is to the newer versions of the material. But for fans before, the ones they fell in love with were the original versions of the songs. And maybe the later verisons sound better over time, but there’s never that same emotional impact that comes from when you fell in love with the original. This isn’t always the case modifications or alterations can reveal something that wasn’t there before, or help make something that didn’t quite work once now actually be pretty good. Like, there’s something about how progressive metal band The Contortionist plays live that trumps their recorded material to a dramatic degree. Sometimes a reworking can successfully defy established expectations and achieve a new potential.īut part of the thing that’s special about the original versions is that they’re an artistic statement of a time and place. That can be the problem of remasters, remakes, and the like: you have to strike the balance between modernization and preservation. It’s what fascinates me about Kanye West tweaking The Life of Pablo up until it was released. It feels like the most immediate artistic statement that he could have made, compared to other artistic works that often have a latency between creation and availability. So, having played and enjoyed Shadow Blade back in 2014, I feel weird approaching this. The original game was fine, not on the list of games that needed a revamping. Its presence on iOS feels more like a “well, why not?" sitation versus actually needing to be released.Īnd I know I’m not the only person who comes from this position of “why is this necessary?" The game was an Editor’s Choice back when it released, and got great critical reveiws. The game has gotten a big revamping for release on console and Steam, and since it once released on iOS, hey, here you go. I guess if Reload was an update or a paid upgrade to the original Shadow Blade, we’d have no problem here with the project’s existence, but this is a $4.99 release separate from a game that was once $1.99. So it’s kind of an unusual proposition for veterans. What’s new? Well, the game has been given a visual facelift. You can now fire shurikens that recharge throughout the level to get a distance advantage on enemies. The game now has a story with comic-book-style cutscenes. The story’s okay, inessential but not unwelcome.
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