Arten debuts R10Office CRM and Productivity Suite

Arten Science has released the R10Office CRM and Productivity Suite, a collection of four separate programs: ContaX, ooSooM, R10BatchMail and R10Cipher. ContaX keeps a contact database, which can be used to communicate with customers and suppliers. ooSooM is a task manager and filing system, capable of syncing with services such as iDisk and Dropbox....

published on Wednesday, the 2. December 2009, macintosh-news-network

Contax contact management software offer flexible databases

Arten Science has launched new contact-management software, ContaX. The new software allows storage and viewing of contacts, with communication and interaction available between contacts. It has a flexible database that can be stored anywhere, including hosted or synchronized services like an iDisk or DropBox. It can be used by individuals or expanded to small-business levels, and can communicate across OS platforms. The new software is compatible with R10Cipher for encrypt text and e-mail; it is also compatible with R10BatchMail for sending batches of e-mails....

published on Thursday, the 5. November 2009, macintosh-news-network

Apple tweaks MobileMe with a few improvements

Apple has added a number of tweaks to its MobileMe Web services this week. Mail, Gallery, iDisk, account settings, push contacts and calenders, and Back to My Mac all got improved, and a new version of the MobileMe Control Panel for Windows enables syncing through a proxy. In Mail, forwarding or replying to an HTML or rich text message with now retain that format instead of converting to plain text—while a number of people probably prefer this behavior, I can imagine there are some who won't be happy with the change. Unread message counts are displayed next to the inbox as well as each separate folder if you have them set up, just like Mail on Mac OS X. There's a tweak for e-mail aliases that on occasion did not show up properly in Mac OS X Mail, and those using iPhone OS 3.0 can search messages on the MobileMe server as well as those stored locally on the phone. Click here to read the rest of this article

published on Thursday, the 2. July 2009, ars-technica

New test build of Mac OS X 10.5.8 released to developers

While work is still at full throttle preparing Snow Leopard for a September release, Apple has already released a third beta of Mac OS X 10.5.8 for testing. Select ADC developers reportedly received build 9L16 of the Leopard update late last week. The first two betas focused on components such as Bluetooth, Automator, graphics drivers, iDisk syncing, Spotlight, and Sync services. However, the latest beta asks developers to instead focus on issues with AddressBook, AppKit, ColorSync, the CoreAUC HD video decoder, FileSync, Image IO, Mail, mass storage devices, MobileMe preferences, Safari, Security, and the Mac OS X kernel. Click here to read the rest of this article

published on Monday, the 22. June 2009, ars-technica

Apple updates MobileMe Control Panel to 1.3

Apple has released version 1.3 of the MobileMe Control Panel for Windows. The panel is a required tool for users wanting to sync and manage MobileMe and iDisk in Windows. In the update, improvements have been made to the speed of contact and calendar sync between MobileMe and Microsoft Outlook....

published on Wednesday, the 11. February 2009, macintosh-news-network

Cloud storage solution Syncplicity now offering Mac beta

"Cloud storage" is quite a popular offering these days, with companies like Apple, Microsoft, and Amazon all peddling their own file storage and syncing solutions. As of today, there's a new option available for Mac users who don't want to use iDisk, Live Mesh, or S3 for storing their digital goodies. The Syncplicity service has been available for Windows for a while, but yesterday the company launched a Mac beta of its cloud solution. TUAW and Boy Genius Report are both offering a bit more detail on the service, (although it's a bit hard to wade through all the drool in the second piece). Generally speaking, Syncplicity works a lot like other cloud solutions. Once you add a folder, Syncplicity will back it up and also sync it to all of the other computers that have the same file. You can also browse your Syncplicity files from a mobile phone or a Web browser, and can share the files in the "cloud" with other people. Syncplicity also offers users the ability to edit files in Google Docs from the Web interface, and you can even sync a folder of photos with Facebook, which is pretty nifty. If you'd like to try it out, you'll need an Intel Mac running Leopard, but the good news is that there's a free account available that lets you store and sync 2GB of data between two computers. You can get another 3GB if you invite some folks, or you can opt for the $10/month or $99/year plan that comes with 50GB of data and unlimited syncing. Either way, head on over to the Syncplicity site to grab the software.

published on Tuesday, the 3. February 2009, ars-technica

Replace MobileMe with an open source server

Instead of using Apple's MobileMe account and losing control over your data, you can instead use dotmac for data synchronization and iDisk-like storage space. It requires a machine running either Linux or OS X with Apache and some Perl modules installed. It works fine here with OS X 10.5.5. [robg adds: I hadn't heard of this project before, and it looks intriguing, claiming to support data sync for any app that uses .Mac (iCal, Address Book, etc.), iDisk-like remote storage, and support for Backup. Note that the setup process requires a fair bit of work in Terminal. Also, if you want the true benefits of .Mac (offsite hosted storage available anywhere), you'll need to set up your replacement server in the same manner. I haven't tested this one.]

published on Tuesday, the 21. October 2008, macosxhints

Automatically sync Documents folder to iDisk

Google searches for Sync iDisk largely show results that say something along the lines of "just edit the iDisk version." For me, iDisk is more about backup than anything else. I don't really have the need to share Documents with other people, and the local Documents folder of my laptop is always authoritative for my data. However, it would be nice to have a synced and restorable copy of my Documents "in the cloud" in the event my laptop fails. rsync works well for this.My first step was to log into MobileMe, click the Account link, then to click on Storage Settings. Here I dropped my mail storage from 10Gb to 2Gb and ended up with an 18Gb iDisk, perfect for backing up my critical documents. Next, I wrote up a simple shell script to handle the rsync function and to copy the data from my local Documents folder to my iDisk's Documents folder. The script is below ...

published on Wednesday, the 23. July 2008, macosxhints

Apple's .Mac Service to be Renamed, Revamped?

Apple's .Mac ("dotmac") service is a $99/year set of online tools that provides customers with email (@mac), web hosting, iDisk, backup and sync services. .Mac services are tightly integrated with Apple's existing iLife suite, allowing you to publis...

published on Friday, the 30. May 2008, macrumors

?I?m loving my MacBook Air?

?For me,? writes Jim Dalrymple (macworld.com), the MacBook Air ?is all about travel. It?s so light, taking it on the road is a no brainer, so that?s how I set it up.? Using .Mac iDisk syncing, Dalrymple ?moved all of my documents onto that disk? allowing him to access his ?documents on the Air and my home computer.? He then ?installed iWork and left GarageBand on the drive,? letting him ?write my stories, check e-mail, surf the Web and compose song ideas while on the road.? Dalrymple says that ?after using it for the past few weeks, I?m loving my MacBook Air.?

published on Wednesday, the 19. March 2008, apple-hot-news