![]() It’s a simple backup application that can save files to CD-R/CD-RW, DVD-R, and to your iDisk (though if you have a slow Internet connection you won’t be able to back up much data to your iDisk). ![]() Mac members can download a new Backup program that works only with Mac OS X. Mac members can send iCards using their own photos now. ICards remains available to everyone, but only. HomePage now lets you send iCards with your own pictures to announce new Web pages, adds a "Send me a message" button that lets visitors send you iCards with feedback, offers more layouts for photos, runs slide shows full screen, makes instant site menus, and offers improved performance. Apple also has a new iDisk Utility application (Mac OS X only) that helps you access and manage multiple iDisks and Public Folders. IDisks now come with 100 MB of disk space (up from 20 MB), and you can purchase additional storage. You can purchase additional storage, and if you want more than one email address you can buy up to 10 more Mac.com addresses for $10 per year each (though these addresses can’t use photo signatures). Mac.com email now offers 15 MB of storage space (up from 5 MB) and provides access via the Web as well as POP and IMAP. Changes include the following make sure to read the. Mac - Apple realized that just charging for the features available in iTools wouldn’t be popular, so they attempted to sweeten the deal by extending what. ![]() If you do nothing, your iTools account will be deactivated on 30-Sep-02, and any data you have stored in your iDisk or on your Mac.com email account will be deleted (so make sure to download anything you don’t want to lose to your hard disk). Mac is delivering a set of consumer-oriented Web services today. ![]() Mac from the free iTools it’s also a play on Microsoft’s. Mac trial, which includes the same features of iTools plus Apple’s Backup software, mentioned below.) The name change was undoubtedly done partly to help Apple distinguish the fee-based. Mac, a new service from Apple that offers some of the same features as iTools for a $100 annual fee a one-year discount of $50 is available for current users who sign up before 30-Sep-02. If you visit Apple’s Web site now, though, you’ll see no trace of iTools. Nonetheless, the free Mac.com email addresses, 20 MB of iDisk space, and HomePage Web page hosting have proven extremely popular. Although iTools has amassed 2.2 million users since its launch at the start of 2000 (see "iSay, Apple’s iStrategy Is iMpressive" in TidBITS-512), Apple has struggled slightly to find the right mix of features, dropping the iReview Web site reviews and the KidSafe service that selected sites appropriate for children, and most recently, surreptitiously implementing bandwidth limits on HomePage-based Web sites (see "iTools HomePage Bandwidth Limitations" in TidBITS-634). #1659: Exposure notifications shut down, cookbook subscription service, alarm notification type proposal, Explain XKCDīy far the most controversial announcement during Steve Jobs’s Macworld Expo keynote was Apple’s move to turn its free iTools service into the fee-based.#1660: OS updates for sports and security, Drobo in bankruptcy, why TidBITS doesn't cover rumors.#1661: Mimestream app for Gmail, auto-post WordPress headlines to Twitter and Mastodon, My Photo Stream shutting down.#1662: New Macs, 12 top OS features for 2023, vertical tabs in Web browsers, watchOS 9.5.1.#1663: Exploring the Apple Vision Pro, 12 more OS features coming in 2023, new Apple service features, Apollo shuts down.
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