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Figure 21-5. Saving a file directly to a server in BBEdit<br />

Connecting to .<strong>Mac</strong><br />

As Transmit and BBEdit demonstrate, integration is the order of the day for many native <strong>Mac</strong><br />

applications. As the Finder’s built-in networking demonstrates, this is also true of the system in<br />

general. However, when it comes to simplicity through integration, nothing compares to Apple’s<br />

.<strong>Mac</strong>.<br />

NOTE If you’re not familiar with .<strong>Mac</strong>, check out Chapter 15.<br />

Connecting to .<strong>Mac</strong> is easier than connecting to other Internet hosts. You don’t have to<br />

access it with Terminal or Transmit, because the interface is built into <strong>Mac</strong> <strong>OS</strong> X. You also don’t<br />

have to deal with online control panels or configuration files because all that is handled from<br />

within System Preferences, as shown in Figure 21-6.<br />

iDisk<br />

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If you create a web site in iWeb, which is part of iLife and included free on every new <strong>Mac</strong>, you<br />

can publish your home page to .<strong>Mac</strong> with one click. If you use another program to create your<br />

web pages, you can just mount your .<strong>Mac</strong> server space, known as iDisk, and copy, move, or<br />

delete files in the Finder.<br />

If you have a bunch of pictures in iPhoto and you want to share them with your family, you<br />

can publish them straight to .<strong>Mac</strong>. You can also use .<strong>Mac</strong> to share movies you make in iMovie<br />

or music and podcasts you make in GarageBand. Using .<strong>Mac</strong> is all about putting things on the<br />

Web without ever having to actually deal with the Web.

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