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Extreme Internet
Mac OS X combines a host of powerful features and technologies like iTools, Sherlock and QuickTime TV to give you more of what you want from the Internet.
Mac OS X delivers the best of the internet with traditional Macintosh ease-of-use. It's not enough for you to have the services you're accustomed to - your internet tools should not only deliver their benefits to you with elegance but also integrate into your work style seamlessly. Created solely for Mac users, iTools delivers on that promise with the triple play of iDisk, HomePage and Mac.com email.
Share Your Stuff With iTools
When you sign up for an iTools membership, you automatically receive 20 free megabytes of storage space on Apple's servers. This allows you to store documents, pictures, movies and web pages and share them with anyone. That's not all. Exclusively for Mac OS X, we've added a Software folder so that developers can share free software for you to use. Integrated right into the Mac OS X desktop, your iDisk will become your home away from home.
iDisk is simply the first step in your web publishing efforts. The next step is HomePage, an easy-to-use authoring tool for quickly creating and publishing an internet home page. We've made it simple to turn your pictures and words into a great looking place to visit. You don't need to have any web programming knowledge to use Home Page.
With a Mac.com email address, you can send your words to your friends and family. Your mail is stored on Apple's servers, allowing you to read your mail from virtually any computer with a standard email program. We think you'll like using the Mail program included with Mac OS X the best, of course.
Internet Search Detective
Looking for hard-to-find information? Sherlock not only finds files and content on your hard disk, it finds up-to-the-minute news and information from the farther reaches of the Internet as well.
Sherlock harnesses the power of dozens of Internet search engines - working simultaneously - to find the information you're looking for. And you can choose to see your search results ranked by name, relevance or website. Sherlock lets you find and get in touch with people, too. Use it to hunt down old classmates, or former colleagues you've lost track of. Sherlock not only finds their phone numbers, it can even find their email addresses.
Online Shopping the Macintosh Way
And Sherlock is great for online shopping. It not only finds the best deals online and ranks them by price, it also shows you details about availability. It's great for locating out-of-print books and other hard-to-get items. Click the shopping channel, select the plug-ins you want, and get ready for some power shopping online the Macintosh way.
Sherlock offers a high degree of personalization: You can choose what icons to use for different channels (like a shopping cart for your shopping channel, and so on), and you can also choose to personalize Sherlock with your own icons. Simply drag and drop images into Sherlock from your desktop, and you're done.
QuickTime TV
While you're online, check out what's on the QuickTime TV channels - including ABC News, Disney, Nick at Nite, the BBC, Rolling Stone, Warner Brothers Records, HBO, ESPN, Fox News, Fox Sports, the Weather Channel, National Public Radio and Bloomberg News. And that's just a partial list of the stuff you can see and do online with Mac OS X.
The Operating System for the Internet Age
The first operating system developed to take full advantage of the Internet, Mac OS X offers you a faster, easier way to get online - and do more when you get there - with a number of built-in Internet applications, online help, automatic updates and support for standard internet technologies. These include (in addition to iTools, Sherlock and QuickTime TV):
- Mail, the perfect email application for sending and receiving email with pictures, sounds and movies.
- Internet Explorer for Mac OS X Public Beta, a beta release of the most popular web browser in the world, optimized for Mac OS X.
- PPP Connect, Apple's own easy-to-use application for dialup connection to the Internet.
- Keychain, the utility that stores passwords and user IDs securely. Typing a single password automatically unlocks your email, web, and file server accounts - as well as files encrypted on your hard disk.
- WebDAV, an emerging Internet standard supported by Mac OS X. WebDAV is an extension to HTTP (the protocol that drives the web) that turns an ordinary web server into an Internet file server, allowing users to easily author and access documents over the web. We've integrated WebDAV into Mac OS X in innovative ways, making it easy to access WebDAV servers from the Finder like any other file server and giving applications the ability to open and save documents to the web. This gives Mac OS X optimized applications the benefits of next-generation web publishing.
Advanced Features and Technologies
In addition to giving you faster, easier route onto the Internet, Mac OS X lets you take full advantage of a number of advanced features like an online help system, online software updates, and network time synchronization.
Mac OS X also features full support for standard Internet technologies - which should come as no surprise, since it was built using many of the same core technologies that power the Internet itself. These include TCP/IP (the underlying standard for all Internet traffic, and the basic transport mechanism for all network traffic in Mac OS X, RTP/RTSP (protocols that let you watch standards-based streaming video over the Internet), DHCP (which dynamically assigns IP addresses to computers on a local area network so they can find each other and also automatically configures computers to connect to a network server), PAP (the standard print protocol for printing over a network), SLP (which dynamically locates resources such as printers and servers on IP networks), LDAP (for accessing online directory services with information about people, organizations and resources on the Internet), SSL (a protocol developed for transmitting encrypted private documents via the Internet), and FTP (the standard protocol used for sending files on the Internet).
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