Archive for May 7, 2026

Thursday, May 7, 2026

Sendy 7

Hex:

Sendy has been completely refreshed with a modern, more polished interface.

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Reach your audience sooner with 2 times faster sending speeds.

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Design beautiful emails faster than ever with the all-new drag & drop editor. No coding required. […] Get up and running faster with built-in templates.

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Introducing a new File Manager to easily store, organize, and reuse all your uploaded images

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A new Amazon SES Status indicator in the sidebar shows your current reputation (e.g. Healthy or Paused)

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When editing a campaign or autoresponder, you can ask AI to review your email and suggest improvements based on what you’ve already written.

I continue to like Sendy but haven’t had the chance to install this update yet. It’s $69 for new licenses or $34 to upgrade.

Arq Restore Notes

Greg Hurrell:

The other backup tool that has saved my hide in the past is SuperDuper!, but on this occasion I didn’t have access to my physical (SuperDuper!) backup, so restoring from the cloud (Arq) was my only option.

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Arq used all the memory on the system, requiring me to start again[…] Restarting is a bit annoying, because I use Glacier storage for my backups, meaning that you can’t just start downloading the data from the cloud; instead, you request for it to be made available and then wait 5 hours before actually beginning the download. Downloading from Glacier also hurts the wallet a bit, to the tune of about a hundred bucks for all the retrieval costs associated with the repeated attempts.

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There are a number of apps that you have to open or twiddle in order to get things working, even though Homebrew installs them[…]

Backup and restore have definitely gotten easier over the years, but whether on iOS or macOS restoring is never as smooth as you’d hope.

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