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Mac OS X Leopard - ARCAism

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Figure 21-7. Navigating an iDisk in the Finder and Safari<br />

NOTE For more information on the various sharing services, see the “Sharing” section later in<br />

this chapter.<br />

Third-Party Integration<br />

CHAPTER 21 WORKING WITH REMOTE SERVERS AND NETWORKS 373<br />

A platform is only as strong as its third-party development. Even though Apple writes a lot of<br />

great software and bundles most of it for free with every new <strong>Mac</strong>, what really makes the platform<br />

amazing is how much great third-party software there is. Development on the platform is<br />

strong, competitive, and innovative.<br />

It’s the same story with .<strong>Mac</strong>. Apple doesn’t hog it all to itself. Rather, Apple has opened it<br />

up for development and encouraged developers to incorporate .<strong>Mac</strong> into their applications.<br />

Many developers do, and why not? Customers love being able to use .<strong>Mac</strong>, and providing a great<br />

user experience is what makes great software.<br />

Third-party software can (and does) take advantage of .<strong>Mac</strong> to back up and sync the data<br />

on all your machines. For example, Panic’s Transmit uses .<strong>Mac</strong> to sync bookmarked FTP servers,<br />

and Bare Bones’ Yojimbo uses .<strong>Mac</strong> to sync bookmarks, notes, and other stored data. Thirdparty<br />

developers also take advantage of .<strong>Mac</strong>’s ability to get your stuff on the Web with little to<br />

no effort on your part.<br />

I’ll give you a personal example. My company makes a piece of software for organizing<br />

your personal media collection called Delicious Library. In Delicious Library 2, we added a feature<br />

called Web Publishing. This is probably the number-one requested feature, and it’s definitely<br />

the biggest selling point of the new version. When we won the Apple Design Award for Best<br />

<strong>Leopard</strong> Application, this was the feature the judges showed off.<br />

When you publish a collection, you can send it to iWeb to deal with it as you will. If you<br />

have a server, you can set up an FTP account and upload it that way. You can also publish your<br />

collection to a folder and use Transmit to deal with it. In any case, it’s pretty easy, but it takes a<br />

few steps and some configuration—that is, unless you have .<strong>Mac</strong>, as shown in Figure 21-8, in<br />

which case, you don’t have to configure anything because all your .<strong>Mac</strong> account information is

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