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02/13/2007, 11:55am, EST
Tuesday, February 13th
Briefly: review; NJ .Mac service outage
In brief: MacNN has reviewed iList Data 3.2 ($70), an affordable stand-alone database solution designed for ease of use. iList Data includes 10 templates targeted toward the home user, student, or teacher as a starting point to track appointments, music CDs, contacts, a diary, DVDs, and more.... One MacNN reader has reported problems with Apple's .Mac service in the New Jersey area, and has communicated with other users via Apple's own online support forum hoping to encourage Apple to repair the issue. The service disruption spanned five days with sporadic connectivity, and is now operating excessively slowly, according to our reader.... SmileOnMyMac has announced a new educational discount program on its creative productivity software for Mac OS X, offering full-time students as well as faculty and staff a 30 percent discount on purchases made at its online education store. Discounted items include PDFpen and DiscLabel.
Adobe at 3GSM announced integrated video support in the next generation of Adobe Flash Lite software, which is expected to ship in the first half of 2007. Flash Lite 3 will bring the Adobe Flash Player video format from the desktop to mobile phones and devices, according to Adobe, enabling cellular phone manufacturers to enrich mobile multimedia.... PC Magazine has awarded SimulScribe a four star rating for its voicemail-to-text services that utilize proprietary voice recognition algorithms to transcribe voicemail to text. The software delivers the text voicemails via email and SMS text messages in near real-time.
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Seems more likely that if folks in NJ had a problem getting to the .mac site that something was broken in or near NJ, not with .mac.
You are wrong. The service wasn't down for everyone, only a small group -- who had it out for 5 days, off and on. It did work for most people, which is why this has been so frustrating. I've talked with Apple, and they are trying to find out what is happening. They didn't seem to know what was wrong, but the problem is very real. The reason it took so long because of the fact that only a small number of people have been affected.
It's not just NJ users, though that seemed to be a large selection of us.