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app4mac Releases Twin 1.0 Backup Software for Mac OS X

Software developer app4mac announced the release of Twin 1.0, the company’s online data backup system. According to Mac Observer, the Twin application supports backing up data to local drives as well as online locations via several file transfer protocols. The application is currently built on the code base for Persistence and supports FTP, FTPS, SFTP, […]

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MobileMe

Apple Opens 24/7 Live Chat Support for MobileMe Subscribers

On Monday, Apple announced that it would be complementing its MobileMe online service support with a new chat feature available to members. According to Macworld, the MobileMe live chat support will be available 24 hours a day, seven days a week for English speaking customers. The real-time support is for “customers that encounter an issue […]

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How-To

How-To: Get Around Conflicts Between Back to My Mac and Time Machine

As nifty as Time Machine is, a number of users seem to be running into problems where the “Change Disk…” option for Time Machine is nonfunctional. Over on the Apple Discussion Board, user Joel_H offered the following description of the issue: “(After switching TM disks) I realized there were still things on my time capsule […]

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Software

Apple Releases Second Mac OS X 10.5.7 Beta

Apple appears to be close to getting its Mac OS X 10.5.7 maintenance update out the door as the company issued a new build of the update this weekend. According to AppleInsider, Apple released build 9J22 to third-party developers recently. The build apparently contains nearly six dozen code corrections, a barebones weight of 440 megabytes, […]

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Software

Apple Begins Testing Mac OS X 10.5.7 Update

No matter what you think of Mac OS X 10.5.6, Apple is cited as having tapped its developer community this week to begin testing its Mac OS X 10.5.7 update, a maintenance and security update to the company’s Leopard operating system with a particular focus on syncing improvements. According to AppleInsider, sources close to the […]