http://www.macnn.com/ MacNN is the leading source for news about Apple and the Mac industry. It offers news, reviews, discussion, tips, troubleshooting, links, and reviews every day. The best place for Mac News. Period. en-us http://images.macnn.com/images/macnn-logo-bw.gif http://www.macnn.com/ http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/11/25/supports.online.and.offline.backup/ <img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0911/parachute.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Dare to be Creative has released the first version of Parachute, a new backup utility. Users can schedule multiple backup tasks, automated to run in hourly, daily, weekly or monthly cycles. As with most such apps, backups can be saved to network volumes and external hard disks. Content can also be copied to USB flash drives, and various online destinations.... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/11/25/supports.online.and.offline.backup/ Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:10:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/10/07/new.archiving.option/ <img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0910/fsa-story-07.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Group Logic has announced a partnership with Symantec in developing a file system archival (FSA) scheme for Mac-based organizations. The arrangement combines Symantec's Enterprise Vault with Group Logic's ArchiveConnect, and promises to reduce storage costs as much as 60 percent.... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/10/07/new.archiving.option/ Wed, 07 Oct 2009 20:45:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/09/29/app.complements.standard.desktop.based.service/ <img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0909/dropsml.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Dropbox has released an application for the iPhone and iPod touch that allows users to access or manage content from their Dropbox accounts. From the mobile interface, users can view or download files, take photos or videos and upload them to the Dropbox, share links to files, or sync downloaded files to keep the desktop and mobile systems up-to-date.... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/09/29/app.complements.standard.desktop.based.service/ Tue, 29 Sep 2009 23:55:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/09/15/back.up.software.also.adds.cros.new.reporting/ <img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0909/arkeianetworkbacup8.1-story-15.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Arkeia has launched Arkeia Network Backup 8.1, an update to its cross-platform backup software. Version 8.1 brings Snow Leopard compatibility and Custom Restore Objects (CROs) that give system admins the ability to assign restoration rights, enabling end users to restore their own systems. With CROs in place, users can recover a volume without requiring IT workers and without the delays of waiting... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/09/15/back.up.software.also.adds.cros.new.reporting/ Tue, 15 Sep 2009 21:40:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/09/01/67tb.of.storage.for.7900/ <img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0908/backblaze.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Backblaze is in the business of providing online backup service and, by extension, wound up in the hardware business. Upset with the high cost of storage devices, the company designed and built it's own 67TB storage modules for about $7867 (materials alone) each. Now, CEO Gleb Budman says Backblaze is giving away the design, hoping the open approach will lead to improvements or inspire a separate ... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/09/01/67tb.of.storage.for.7900/ Wed, 02 Sep 2009 01:45:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/08/28/superduper.v26.ships/ <img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0908/superduper-ver2.6-28.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Shirt Pocket has released SuperDuper 2.6, an update of its Mac OS X system recovery software. The primary changes in version 2.6 is Snow Leopard compatibility; however, it also offers "Backup on connect," which enables a user to automatically configure the software to backup to a drive any time it is connected.... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/08/28/superduper.v26.ships/ Fri, 28 Aug 2009 16:00:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/08/26/disklibrary.smartbackup/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/macnn/news/0812/appupdate.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />KeyCue 4.5 ($27) helps users to make better use of keyboard shortcuts that different applications provide. After holding down the Command key for a set period of time KeyCue opens and displays a table of all currently available menu shortcuts. Version 4.5 adds support for Snow Leopard and QuickKey shortcuts. The latest version of the software also includes a fix that correctly displays arrow keys ... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/08/26/disklibrary.smartbackup/ Wed, 26 Aug 2009 12:15:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/08/18/1u.terastation.iii.nas/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/macnn/news/0908/nas.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Buffalo Technology on Tuesday announced its latest storage product, the rackmount TeraStation III, aimed at small- to medium-size businesses. The network device is built on the same platform as the company's standalone TeraStation III, with support for hot swapping, replication, NFS, Active Directory and Time Machine backup. Users can configure the drives in RAID arrays or apply disk encryption fo... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/08/18/1u.terastation.iii.nas/ Tue, 18 Aug 2009 19:00:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/08/07/kroll.data.recovery.portal/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/macnn/news/0906/KrollOntrack.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Kroll Ontrack has unveiled a new Apple-based Data Recovery Portal. The service recovers lost or damaged data for operating systems, servers, applications, files, and iPhones and iPods. The portal is specifically targeted at Apple Service Providers, permitting customers to retrieve information from anywhere in the world.... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/08/07/kroll.data.recovery.portal/ Fri, 07 Aug 2009 15:45:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/07/28/retrospect.81.update/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/macnn/news/0907/retrospect.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />EMC has released Retrospect 8.1 for the Mac, which now runs on PowerPC systems. The new version also includes minor interface improvements, and performance increases for Intel Mac users of up to 15 percent over version 8, and 30 to 35 percent over v6.1.... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/07/28/retrospect.81.update/ Tue, 28 Jul 2009 14:00:00 GMT