Apple Backup Updated to v2.0
Grok Headline matches for Apple Backup Updated to v2.0
Apple iTunes and Apple Store (PowerMac
Price) Glitches? [Updated]
Apple iTunes and Apple Store (PowerMac
Price) Glitches? [Updated]
12/02/2003 12:22 AM
Several readers noted that Apple's iTunes Music Store has had some
strange behavior this morning with song and genre links behaving
erratically. The ...
Apple Backup 2.0.2
Apple Backup 2.0.2
05/10/2004 07:05 PMBy Mac Net Journal (via MyAppleMenu)
Apple: Backup 2.0.2
Apple: Backup 2.0.2
05/11/2004 09:12 AMThe new version "adds performance and stability improvements to
scheduled backups and is recommended for all Backup 2.0 users."
Apple releases Backup 2.0.2
Apple releases Backup 2.0.2
05/11/2004 02:02 AMApple late Monday updated their .Mac Backup utility to version 2.0.2.
According to notes provided with the update, "Backup 2.0.2 adds
performance and stability improvements to scheduled backups." In
addition to backing up data to a .Mac account, Backup also allows
users to backup files to an external FireWire hard disk, CD or DVD
disks. The update is available via the Software Update control panel.
Apple releases Backup 2 for .Mac members
Apple releases Backup 2 for .Mac members
11/06/2003 01:54 AMApple has released the final version of Backup 2, its file archiving
utility for .Mac members...
Apple releases Backup 2 for .Mac users
Apple releases Backup 2 for .Mac users
11/06/2003 08:48 AMAfter a lengthy public beta test, Apple has released the final version
of its Backup 2 software to subscribers of the company's
.Mac online service.
Apple releases Backup 2.0.2 with
performance improvements
Apple releases Backup 2.0.2 with
performance improvements
05/10/2004 06:59 PMApple today released Backup 2.0.2, the latest update to the company's
data backup utility for Mac OS X...
Notes and Tips: Apple Backup Trap
Notes and Tips: Apple Backup Trap
12/24/2004 12:13 PMApple Backup won't back up applications - not even if they're located
in your home directory....
Apple: eMacs Updated
Apple: eMacs Updated
04/13/2004 08:46 AM
Apple updates its eMac line with USB 2.0 and faster CPU and graphics
performance.
Apple Hot Deals updated
Apple Hot Deals updated
11/05/2003 03:36 PMApple's
Hot Deals site
outlines deals and specials offered to Mac users from a selection of
retailers allied with Apple. The site has recently been updated with
news about new deals.
More Apple Patents [Updated]
More Apple Patents [Updated]
12/24/2004 12:35 PM
News.com covers some recently published patent applications from
Apple.
The list includes technologies related to Expose, Video conferencing,
music...
Apple: eMac Updated
Apple: eMac Updated
04/13/2004 10:04 AM
Apple updates its eMac line with USB 2.0 and faster CPU and graphics
performance.
Bodrag Announce New Outlook Express
Backup Expert Version - Email Backup
Made Easier
Bodrag Announce New Outlook Express
Backup Expert Version - Email Backup
Made Easier
03/31/2005 03:45 AMTimisoara, Romania (March 31, 2005) Bodrag today announced the release
of Ooutlook Express Backup Expert 1.20, an award winning backup
solution for Outlook Express email client running under Windows
98/ME/2000/XP. Outlook Express Backup Expert can backup mail &
attachments, account settings, address book, block sender list,
stationery and general settings. [PRWEB Mar 31, 2005]
Apple Store Hot Deals updated, and more
Apple Store Hot Deals updated, and more
06/18/2004 11:28 AMApple's
Hot Deals Web site
includes links to offers from participating Mac software and hardware
resellers. The latest updates include links to specials at the Apple
Store itself, like refurbished iBooks, PowerBooks and more. ClubMac
has offers on Griffin's SightLight, the LaCie 500GB Big Disk and more.
O'Reilly has offers on popular Mac books like "Inside .Mac" and "Cocoa
in a Nutshell."
Apple-History.com updated with new
products
Apple-History.com updated with new
products
08/10/2004 03:53 AMThe folks at Apple-History.com, a Web site devoted to documenting the
history of Apple Computer's product releases over the years, let us
know that the site has been updated to include the latest PowerBooks,
iBooks, Power Macs and eMacs...
Apple Store Hot Deals updated, more
Apple Store Hot Deals updated, more
09/15/2004 11:05 AMApple's
Hot Deals Web site
links to Apple hardware and software resellers that have special
offers for their customers, including Apple's own online Apple Store.
That site has been updated with new links, including the JBL On Stage,
the new donut-shaped iPod speaker system, an exclusive through
December. MacMall has updated deals including Microsoft Office 2004
Student and Teacher Edition, Logitech MX1000 Cordless Laser Mouse and
more. And CDW|MacWarehouse's new deals include Sony's CyberShot
DSC-P93 Digital Camera, LaCie Big Disk 1 Terabyte external drive and
more.
Apple Hot Deals updated with CDW, OWC
info
Apple Hot Deals updated with CDW, OWC
info
05/26/2004 01:43 PMApple's
Hot Deals Web site
features links to retailers who offer specials on Macintosh hardware
and software products. The latest updates to the site include new
content from CDW|MacWarehouse, which is offering Canon's LV 5210 LCD
projector, Sony 512MB MicroVault flash drive and other products; and
Other World Computing, which is offering a 160GB hard disk bundled
with Dantz Retrospect, Griffin's iTrip FM transmitter for iPod and
more.
Apple Store Hot Deals updated
Apple Store Hot Deals updated
03/14/2005 06:28 PMThe online Apple Store has updated its Hot Deals section with its
latest bargains...
Apple Store, OWC Hot Deals updated
Apple Store, OWC Hot Deals updated
03/06/2004 02:09 AMApple has updated its Hot Deals Web site with the latest offerings
from the Apple Store and Other World Computing (OWC)...
Apple Hot Deals site updated
Apple Hot Deals site updated
10/29/2003 02:45 PMApple's Hot Deals site brings readers information on bargains and
specials available from affiliated advertisers. The site has once
again been updated with new content.
Apple Hot Deals updated from Amazon,
MacMall, more
Apple Hot Deals updated from Amazon,
MacMall, more
06/04/2004 12:26 PMApple's
Hot Deals Web site
features links to Mac hardware and software resellers. The site has
recently been updated from new offers including The Apple Store,
Amazon.com, MacMall, Publishing Perfection and O'Reilly. The Apple
Store features a 90 Days Same As Cash promotion, Amazon.com has
rebates on Viking CompactFlash cards, MacMall has offers on ATI's new
Radeon 9800 Pro Mac Special Edition, Publishing Perfection features
the Pantone Ultimate Deal, and O'Reilly has deals on some of its
popular Mac books.
Apple Store, Amazon Hot Deals updated
Apple Store, Amazon Hot Deals updated
04/20/2004 11:16 AMApple has updated its Hot Deals Web site with the latest offerings
from the online Apple Store and Amazon.com...
Apple restricting DVD region-changes --
voluntarily! -- UPDATED
Apple restricting DVD region-changes --
voluntarily! -- UPDATED
02/01/2005 08:37 PMCory Doctorow:
Apple's DVD players are subject to restrictive rules laid out by
greedy Hollywood studios that don't really care if they piss off
Apple's customers, since that's Apple's lookout. However, I've just
discovered, to my amazement, that Apple imposes its very own
restrictions on its DVD players over and above those imposed by the
studios: that's right, Apple
voluntarily treats its customers
worse than the studios say it has to.
In the crazy world of DRM for DVDs, there's this idea that a Hollywood
studio should be able to tell you where you're allowed to watch a DVD
after you buy it. They accomplish this with something called "Region
Codes." Discs have region-codes and players have region-codes. If you
have a Region 1 disc (US and Canada) and a Region 2 player (Europe),
and you put the disc in the player, the player will reject it.
But what happens when you take your laptop from New York to London?
You're in Region 2, but you bought your device in Region 1.
Can you buy a disc in London and play it on your computer?
Yes and no. When a computer manufacturer gets a DVD-decoding license
from Hollywood's licensing cartel (the DVD Copy Control Association or
CCA), it is allowed to make players that can change regions up to five
times.
What's more, once the region-switches have run out, computer companies
can reset your counter at a service depot a further five times. That
means that you get 25 region-switches. This sucks pretty bad: I moved
from San Francisco to London with hundreds of Region 1 DVDs and now
when I buy a movie in the shop, it's Region 2. That means that if I
watch a movie from my US collection once a week, and once from my UK
connection the next week, I'll run out of region switches in three
months. Three months after moving to the UK, I'll have to throw out
half my DVDs.
So, basically, I don't watch my DVDs. Sometimes, though, I'm weak, and
I tune into one and squander one of my precious region switches. Now
my nearly-new Powerbook has only one switch left out of its initial
five, and so I brought it to Apple to get them to reset the counter.
It needed service anyway (I'm on my fifth or sixth screen replacement
for the defect in the 15" machines that causes the "white blobs" to
obscure the display), so it seemed like a good time to do it.
I know that Apple is allowed to do this. How do I know? Well, when
EFF went to the Copyright Office and asked it to give us an exemption
to the DMCA to make tools for watching out-of-region DVDs, Time-Warner
showed up and told us this:
"And, the way it works, and I apologize because it's a little bit
complicated, the consumer can set it five times. After the fifth time
that they've reset it, they do have an ability to reset it again, but
they have to bring the drive to an authorized dealer or an authorized
service representative, who can then authorize an additional set of
five changes, and then they can bring it back for a second, for a
third, fourth and fifth set of authorized changes. So you can change
it 25 times in total, but you have to go back for each set of five.
You only get the first five when you buy the ROM drive itself."
That was Dean Marks, from AOL Time Warner. Straight from the horse's
mouth, testifying to the US government.
But when my Powerbook was ready for pickup, Apple left me a voicemail
saying that they couldn't reset my DVD player, that doing so would
void my warranty.
When I went into the Apple Store in London to get the machine, I asked
about it. I wanted this in writing: if they had a policy that said
that they couldn't fix my region-counter, I wanted to be able to tell
Dean Marks about it the next time we went to the Copyright Office and
ask him why Apple thought it couldn't reset my counter.
Apple refused to put it into writing. They refused to let me record
them telling me they couldn't fix my Powerbook. They wouldn't even put
in writing that they were referring me to the legal department.
Eventually I spoke to the manager, who promised to get back to me the
next day.
The next day, he did. He told me that he'd spoken to legal and that
they wouldn't put anything in writing. However, they did have some
documents on their website they printed for me that talk about DVDs.
- DVD Player: About DVD-Video Regions, last modified July 16, 2004,
technical contributor J Scalo. This document describes the different
regions, saying that after five region-switches, "the drive is
permanently set to use that region, and you cannot make any more
changes."
Interestingly, this also contains something labeled APPLE EYES ONLY
that says that
On Wallstreet and PDQ (PowerBook G3 Series M4753), the number of
region code changes remaining is not stored in the firmware of the DVD
drive but rather in the DVD extension and NVRAM. This information
should absolutely not be conveyed to the customer.
In extreme customer satisfaction situations you can reset the region
change count by following this procedure:
- Reset PRAM/NVRAM by pressing Fn-Ctrl-Shift-Power while the
computer is turned off
- Startup with system extensions off.
- Restart with system extensions on.
Note: This procedure resets some of the customer's custom settings.
After following this procedure, the region change count for the drive
is reset to five.
In later PowerBook models, the region count is stored in the firmware
of the drive and cannot be reset with this procedure.
- Changing the region code of your DVD drive, last modified on
January 23, 2004. This document says that you can only change your
region code five times. "After that, the region code is set
permanently and you cannot change it."
So there's two things going on here that I'm pretty pissed off about:
- The studios have screwed the electronics companies with this
region code business and I have to throw out my DVDs or buy an extra
Powerbook or something
- Worse, though: Apple has a policy about region-changing that is
more restrictive than it has to be: they're playing for the
other side. This really stinks and makes me wonder why I should keep
on buying Apple hardware.
Lots of Apple execs read Boing Boing. If you have a reply on this,
email me and I'll be happy to discuss it with you.
Update: Many of you have written to point out
that VLC plays out of
region DVDs on a Powerbook. That's nice, but it doesn't work reliably
on my Powerbook.
Update 2: Thanks for all the tips on how to
hack my Powerbook or change its firmware. I'm afraid that I'm not in
the market for this, though, tempting as it is, as I've been informed
that using these tools will void my warranty.
The Return of an Apple Cube... as an
iMac? [Updated]
The Return of an Apple Cube... as an
iMac? [Updated]
11/12/2003 01:24 PM
On November 7th, Kodawarisan posted a curious rumor about a redesigned
iMac case... in the form of a Cube. Translation by yamabushi:
A completely ...
Apple Remote Desktop Client updated
Apple Remote Desktop Client updated
12/16/2003 04:10 PMApple has released Apple Remote Desktop Client 1.2.4, which delivers
"improvements to security, performance, and reliability of the Apple
Remote Desktop 1.2 client software running on Mac OS X versions 10.1,
10.2 and 10.3."...
Apple Response to Trojan Warning
[Updated]
Apple Response to Trojan Warning
[Updated]
04/09/2004 04:10 PM
MacCentral posts Apple's response to yesterday's Trojan warning from
Intego.
According to the statement, Apple is investigating the issue:We are
aw...
Apple pushing iTunes for Windows in
updated ads
Apple pushing iTunes for Windows in
updated ads
11/03/2003 11:12 AMApple has slightly modified its new iPod commercials to also promote
iTunes for Windows...
Apple Hot Deals updated with MacMall
specials
Apple Hot Deals updated with MacMall
specials
03/06/2004 01:55 AMApple's
Hot Deals Web site is
often updated with special bargains from Mac hardware and software
retailers, and sometimes with info on special deals from Apple itself.
The latest update includes new deals from MacMall.
Apple Releases Updated OS X to Fix
FireWire, Game Issues
Apple Releases Updated OS X to Fix
FireWire, Game Issues
12/19/2004 03:02 PMVersion 10.3.7 of the Mac OS X operating system addresses an issue
with some FireWire hard drives not mounting, as well as problems with
certain games' graphics.
HP, Apple partner on iPod-based device,
iTunes [updated]
HP, Apple partner on iPod-based device,
iTunes [updated]
01/08/2004 07:16 PMHP and Apple today announced a strategic alliance to deliver an
HP-branded digital music player based on Apple's iPod, and iTunes to
HP's customers...
Apple & Motorola Bring iTunes To Cell
Phones (UPDATED)
Apple & Motorola Bring iTunes To Cell
Phones (UPDATED)
07/27/2004 04:22 AMMac Observer Jul 27 2004 8:05AM GMT
TMO Reports - Apple & Motorola Bring
iTunes To Cell Phones (UPDATED)
TMO Reports - Apple & Motorola Bring
iTunes To Cell Phones (UPDATED)
07/27/2004 04:22 AMMac Observer Jul 27 2004 8:06AM GMT
Computer Associates BrightStor ARCserve
Backup and BrightStor Enterprise Backup
UniversalAgent buffer overflow
vulnerability
Computer Associates BrightStor ARCserve
Backup and BrightStor Enterprise Backup
UniversalAgent buffer overflow
vulnerability
04/14/2005 07:25 PMPosted by Williams, James K, Apr 14 2005
Backup Hard Drives: CMS ABSplus And
Maxtor OneTouch Offer Easy Backup And
Easy Storage
Backup Hard Drives: CMS ABSplus And
Maxtor OneTouch Offer Easy Backup And
Easy Storage
12/19/2003 11:33 AMBoth drives do a fine job of simplifying backup and providing external
storage space. The ABSplus is a focused backup device that's easy to
use, right out of the box, for backup and restoration, whereas
Maxtor's cheaper and quieter drive is better for people who want extra
disk space and more backup flexibility. By Adam Engst (Macworld via
MyAppleMenu)
Backup your iDisk to CD using Apple's
Backup
Backup your iDisk to CD using Apple's
Backup
02/17/2004 11:49 AMIf you are a .Mac subscriber, you know that Apple's Backup utility
will allow you to back up data to your iDisk. However, if you've
ever tried to back up your iDisk to a CD, you'll find that Backup will
tell you that it can...
Remote Backup Systems' Remote Backup
Software Makes Data Earthquake-Proof
Remote Backup Systems' Remote Backup
Software Makes Data Earthquake-Proof
06/22/2005 01:51 AMOnline backup services can save the day when things get shaky. [PRWEB
Jun 20, 2005]
SQL Server forum stories - Sql backup or
copy of backup to server in trusted
domain
SQL Server forum stories - Sql backup or
copy of backup to server in trusted
domain
08/12/2004 08:48 PMUpdated: ActiveWin.com: Microsoft
Security Bulletin List - Updated
Updated: ActiveWin.com: Microsoft
Security Bulletin List - Updated
06/08/2004 06:38 PMWe have re-updated our Microsoft Security Bulletin List for 2004. Be
sure to check it out to see if you missed any of the 17 bulletins
released this year.
[FLSA-2004:1546] Updated utempter
resolves security vulnerability --
Reissue: updated 8.0 version numbers
[FLSA-2004:1546] Updated utempter
resolves security vulnerability --
Reissue: updated 8.0 version numbers
05/19/2004 11:45 AMJesse Keating (May 19 2004)
Grok Description matches for Apple Backup Updated to v2.0
GrokA matches for Apple Backup Updated to v2.0
Arkeia 5.2
Arkeia 5.2
11/17/2003 09:21 AMEnterprise-class network backup for Linux and Unix networks.
Update: Arkeia MySQL Hot Backup Plug-in
Update: Arkeia MySQL Hot Backup Plug-in
04/16/2004 10:28 AMArkeia released an updated version of the MySQL Hot Backup Plug-in for
its Network Backup and Server Backup packages.
Arkeia 5.0 backup system adds OS X
client support
Arkeia 5.0 backup system adds OS X
client support
03/13/2003 06:20 PM Apple Backup Updated to v2.0
