Apple users frustrated over lack of online backup options
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Apple computer users are frustrated by a lack of available online backup services for their systems.
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In his in-depth review of Time Machine, Ryan Faas  does some dÃ©jÃ -vuing of his own, conjuring up an early iMac commercial to illustrate how simple it is for customers to use Time Machine to back up the data on their Macs. Calling it âone of the most compelling new features added to Mac OS X in years,â he praises Apple engineers for creating âa backup technology that requires little or no configuration, performs backups automatically and invisibly, and makes restoring files from those backups as simple and intuitive as humanly possible.â
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Backing up--your PC or your car--can be hard to do. This month's gadgets can help.
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(Source: Network Appliance)  Assessing the wide array of D2D options can be daunting. In this paper, we compare disk backup solutions and offer guidance for evaluating the different types of advanced data protection solutions, as well as guidance for identifying the solutions that will meet your needs.
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Bigger and brawnier isn't necessarily better for everyone. FileMaker's new desktop database adheres to the Apple division's credo that ease of installation and use is more important to its user community than whizzy new features that add bulk and complexity.
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Simplicity has a price Time Machine for OSX has got the Apple platform's fuss-less data backup covered quite nicely. But where can a technical nincompoop turn for brainless Windows backup?â¦
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Apple updated its Xserve RAID storage system, a 3U high-availability, rack storage system to deliver a massive 5.6 terabytes of storage capacity at the industry&#146;s most aggressive price for storage of just over $2 per GB. Additionally, Apple expanded support for heterogeneous environments with certification from Cisco and SUSE Linux and optimized the system to work with its Xsan Storage Area Network file system. [Oct 19]
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.Mac, the popular suite of Internet software and services, now offers both new members and its more than half million existing members 250MB of combined online storage for .Mac mailboxes and iDisk folders, perfect for sharing photos, movies and documents with family, friends and coworkers. Sign up now for a free 60-day trial. [Sep 29]
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A round-up of reviews from around the country  weighing the merits and shortcomings of Apples's latest gadget
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âNot too long ago, ad agencies, design firms and other creative companies were about the only businesses that widely deployed Macintosh computers to their employees,â writes Seth Weintraub for Computerworld. âBut for a number of reasons, word of the benefits of Apple Inc. hardware  â  and software  â  on enterprise desktops is now spreading.â
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Unsanity Apple support drones are getting an earful from Mac users who are getting the dreaded Blue Screen of Death while trying to update to the latest and greatest version of OS X. This thread on an official Apple support forum has more than 200 posts left in 25 hours at time of writing. A large percentage of the writers report getting a persistent blue screen that forces them to abort their installation of Leopard.â¦
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There's a big yellow bar on the Twitter home page today saying it will be down for maintenence betw 10AM and 10PM today. I haven't heard any grumbling about this, but it's worth a bit of a grumble. What other basic form of communication goes down for 12 hours at a time? What if the web went offline for 12 hours at a time? It's unthinkable, because the web is built on the Internet and is decentralized and redundant. A single router or server can go down for a few hours, days or forever, and the web keeps on tickin.  Same with email. If Gmail started having twelve-hour planned outages, as much as I like Gmail, I'd switch. I can't be without email for any extended period of time.  Okay, let's give the guys at Twitter credit -- they stopped being flip about Twitter taking naps or showers. No one likes jokes when a line of communication is down. Now I'd like them to take another step. Assuming these long outages are really necessary, explain to us what they're for. I can take a guess -- something about their database needs changing, and all the data in all the files must be processed to implement the change. Any updates made while such a process is running would be lost, so the server must be shut off. But this is just a guess.  Another guess -- maybe they've hired a scaling expert who needs to make one final major adjustment before these outages are a thing of the past? No one would want to make such a promise, that's offering too much temptation to Dr Murphy, but that would be good news. Maybe Twitter is getting on to solid ground, finally.  It's fairly amazing that there isn't a viable Twitter clone out there yet. I'd also like to see something much more decentralized, based on static files, available to any Twitter-like system. It doesn't seem that far out of reach. With all the scaling troubles Twitter has had it's surprising that there haven't yet been any entrepreneurs willing to enter the space as competition to Twitter.  Users and developers are learning first-hand why centralized systems are so fragile. I'm sure they're doing a heroic job at Twitter, the best they can with what they have, but it's not good enough when the service takes a 12-hour break while many of the humans that depend on it are awake and working.
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Apple has made retail seem ridiculously easy. But why hasnât the Windows side of the personal computer business figured it out?
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Microsoft&#39;s Hotmail and Yahoo have promised to boost storage limits for their free e-mail services, but for many users, the upgrades haven&#39;t been delivered.
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Competitors' attempts to beat back Apple's dominant hardware with devices offering more storage, a lower price -- or both virtues -- have gone nowhere.-The Washington Post
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Some Mac users who tried to install a beta version of Apple Inc.'s Safari Web browser are complaining that an installation snafu caused problems on their systems -- and they've had to rely on each other to find a solution.
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At one point, Apple had promoted a feature of Time Machine that let you back up multiple Macs over a wireless network to an external hard drive, but the final version of Leopard doesn't have that capability.