Ah ... thank you.
Dean
On Sep 5, 2005, at 1:46 PM, Christopher Smith wrote:
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.
Christopher
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