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Nakahara Informatic’s iGet Mobile, a nifty iPhone-Mac application that allows users to remotely access their documents on Mac through the iPhone just got a new Version 2.0 release. This new version boasts of the following new features; iPhone-specific features through the iGet Mobile web interface, an improved web server component, a redesigned user interface and other enhancements.

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Time Capsule is Apple’s answer to network-attached Time Machine backups within a local area network. It allows multiple people to back-up wirelessly or wired, making it ideal for laptop users. However, online backups are far more secure - as they’re stored in a datacenter away from your own home.

A company called Macminicolo.net has been offering Mac Mini-based backups for a while now, and is now offering a brand new service with Time Machine in Leopard. “Transport” will allow you to purchase a Time Capsule unit which will be hosted at their datacenter - all of your future backups will be stored in this secure location. Their plans start at just $29 per month, with a set-up fee of $25. You have the choice of either asking a hosting provider to purchase and install a Time Capsule, or the option to send one to Macminicolo.net for installation in their server farm.

Which do you prefer, local or network backups?

Via [Macworld UK]

2007 was a great year for Apple in the business world. The 2007 market share results for Mac OS X showed that in businesses, Mac OS X usage tripled to 4.2%, just over 2% lower than Vista, at 6.3%.

Windows XP declined during the same period, and it seems a shame that Apple doesn’t capitalize on the Windows Vista fiasco. Joe Wilcox at Apple Watch notes that Apple’s business advertising is totally non-existent. And Apple has a lot working against them. Windows PCs have long been the “Business Machine.” Most people assume that integrating Macs into the workplace will cause nightmares with compatibility, and there will have to be separate networks for Macs and PCs. The list goes on and on. It’s hard to imagine how Apple could extend it’s hip branding to business enterprise solutions, but they can think of something, and it’s a shame not to see them capitalizing.

Read [AppleWatch]

In an odd move for Apple, they today released the new Airport Express, with 802.11n networking. Usually, Apple releases products on a Tuesday, and it seems that they may have decided to release the product early due to Saturday’s leak.

The new Airport Express units are no different from previous iterations other than the new 802.11n wireless networking capabilities. It also remains with one 10/100 ethernet port, which is slower and older technology compared to the gigabit ethernet offered on all Macs and all other Airport products.

The Airport Express is priced at $99.

See the Airport Express product page at [Apple.com]

The Airport Express page on the Swiss Apple Store Online has been preemptively updated to show that the Airport Express has been updated with 802.11n wireless capabilities. As of now, all products in the Mac and Airport lines except for the Airport Express are wireless N compatible.

The 802.11n wireless networking protocol allows for more stable, secure and faster internet. 802.11n provides a greater range and speed of up to more than four times faster than 802.11g, it’s predecessor. It is currently available in Airport Extreme and Time Capsule, and has taken it’s good old time in getting to the Airport Express. Most likely, we will see this update on Tuesday.

Via [MacRumors]

A new update has just been released from Apple. AirPort Base Station Update 2008-001 was released midday Tuesday and as of this time is not available on Apple’s website.

According to Apple, the update “includes general fixes and compatibility updates for the following applications: AirPort Utility, AirPort Disk Utility, [and] AirPort Base Station Agent.”

With luck, this will fix the Airport issues many have been having with Leopard, but it does not appear to be the update hinted at by an Apple representative yesterday.

Download for Windows, Leopard, or Tiger.

Apple’s two in one wireless backup and Airport Extreme Base Station product, Time Capsule, may be shipping Sunday according to MacNN. Although the online Apple Store lists shipping time as simply “February” for Time Capsule, next week’s Best Buy circular lists the item as shipping “Feb. 24,” and says that most stores will have three or four in stock. However, I have never seen any circular tell customers when the product would be discontinued or updated.

Overall, the MacNN post was a bit confusing, at one point referencing a “tip” that was not previously explained or referenced. This, combined with the fact that it is unlikely that Best Buy would notify customers of product discontinuation, is why the question mark remains on the title. We’ll see how this all turns out tomorrow, but we’re not 100% sure a simple Best Buy advert gives us enough proof.

Read [MacNN]

Macworld’s Jason Snell describes his experience with Migration Assistant on the MacBook Air. The Air is unique in that it has no FireWire port, and so the traditional method of using Migration Assistant, Target Disk Mode, is out of the question.

Apple, of course, has a solution for this too. When you get to Migration Assistant on the Air, it shows you a window telling you to go to your other Mac, open Migration assistant, choose “To another Mac” and type a passkey. What it doesn’t say is that you must first install an updated “Migration Assistant” onto your other computer by installing the Remote Disc software from the MacBook Air installation discs. Once you have installed that software, you can then use Migration Assistant wirelessly! It will be slower than FireWire, depending on your internet speed, but it does get the job done.

Read [Macworld]

MacScoop appears to have gotten their hands on release notes for the latest OS X 10.5 build released to developers during Macworld. In an update to their article, MacScoop announced potentially the most exciting bits of information about 10.5.2: it adds support for sharing your optical drive with another computer a la the MacBook Air. Interestingly, the way it was worded, it sounds like it will work with any computer, so if one of your computers has a broken optical drive, perhaps this is good news for you. The other big feature of 10.5.2 according to MacScoop is to use a networked volume with Time Machine. This was a feature that was in the developer builds but was withdrawn for the final release. This means that you don’t have to run out and buy Time Capsule if you already have an external drive and an Airport Extreme Base Station.

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9to5Mac posts a summary of the “MacBook Air” rumors and a history of the name.

Most importantly, it makes note that one of their readers found reference to a “MacBook Air” in one of Adium’s usage log reports. This was then verified from a Google Cache, which revealed that the entry was made before the revelation of the MacWorld posters on January 9th.

Therefore we can conclude that there are one of two outcomes:

1. The MacBook Air is real - our details may be off slightly but the name is real.

2. Either Apple or someone with knowledge of the Macworld 2008 ‘There is something in the air slogan’ 2 weeks ago sent the rumor sites false info and went to a few websites with public logs with a browser hacked to show “MacBookAir” as machine-type.

The second seems more likely to me, as “MacBook Air” just does not seem like a name that Apple would use, and on a personal level, I loathe it. More likely, I think is that the “Air” on the posters is referring to some sort of WiMax partnership that involve their new sub-notebooks, and perhaps the entire notebook line.

Via [9to5Mac]