On Sep 5, 2005, at 2:21 PM, Dean M. Estabrook wrote:
Uh, what is iDisk? Dean
It's a service offered by Apple that you pay a subscription fee for. You have an icon that appears on your desktop that looks like a blue crystal ball, but behaves just like another disk drive, except that the actual physical disk is somewhere on Apples servers, connected to your computer by the Internet. There are several interesting services that are integrated into OSX, mostly involving the fact that iDisk acts pretty much transparently like any other disk. You can designate it as the place where backups are made to, and you can drag files to it, or from it, which means that I can drag my entire School folder to it at home, then go to school and drag the whole folder onto my computer at school. I can have folders that are public so that I can distribute files, or folders that are only accessible by those I designate. You can host a webpage on it, as if your computer is the host, except that you don't actually have the traffic on YOUR internet connection. The iSync utility built into OSX can use iDisk, so that your Address Book, web bookmarks, iCal, and some other things that I forget, are updated automatically so as not to accidentally overwrite changes that you made to one copy but not another on another computer or BlueTooth device.
I checked it out for the free thirty-day period, but haven't paid my subscription fee yet, and am not sure that I will just yet.
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