Although much hasn’t changed with the iDisk after the switch from .Mac to MobileMe, I have noticed a couple welcome changes:

First, when uploading something to an iDisk, you get a real progress bar/file transfer box.

In the past, you would probably just see this box for a few seconds. It would close quickly, looking like [...]

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I just stumbled upon a method for moving contacts (Address Book), calendar events (iCal), and bookmarks (Safari) from your iPhone to Mac. This will be useful if your hard drive died, computer was stolen or lost, or if you’re moving from a PC to a Mac (i.e. your iPhone was previous synced with a [...]

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I’ve never had the need to clone a Boot Camp partition until yesterday. There were several suggestions around the interwebs talking about complicated (well, time consuming) techniques using XP programs, re-creating disk images via boot camp, and re-installing XP and manually dragging/dropping files back. Uhg!
Twocanoes decided to make this super simple, [...]

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I’ve just recently learned about Mozy, a $5/month unlimited off-site backup solution. Yesterday I purchased, downloaded, installed, and began backing up — all in about 5 minutes.
Although I have more than 1TB of data, and it will probably take more than 2 months to completely upload everything, I think this is a [...]

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