#Itools go mac
Mac Observer staff members tested iDisk yesterday evening by sending Macworld related files back and forth to each other.
This truly is the next level of drag and drop. Here's part of Kyle D'Addario's reaction after some hands-on time 16 years ago: While features like the local syncing of files were a few years away, out of all the Internet technologies introduced during Macworld 2000, iDisk perhaps is the most important historically. Starting in July 2000, Apple allowed users to purchase up to 400 extra megabytes at a yearly rate of a $1 per megabyte. And files in the Public directory were easily shared with other iTools users. IDisk worked like a regular folder on the system dragging files in to or out of iDisk would copy them to or from the server.
#Itools go mac os
Instead of fiddling with FTP settings, iDisk was baked into Mac OS 9 - there was an icon for it right on the Desktop. IDisk offered users 20MB (yes, MB!) of Internet storage, hosted on Apple's servers. Though you can no longer acquire a new mac.com or me.com address, you can spot early iTools users by their mac.com aliases, which are still active and useable.
Mac.com email addresses later became me.com in the MobileMe age, before being replaced with. The original mac.com email system didn't have any webmail users had to configure their email clients to talk to the system over POP. With iTools, users could sign up for email addresses at The Apple-run email service provided users with features like auto-reply and auto-forward. ITools was made up of four "revolutionary" products, as shown on this page from OS X's welcome guide:
#Itools go for mac
While in hindsight, iReview and iCards may not have been long-term winners, the final piece of Apple's 2000-era puzzle built the foundation for Apple's modern Internet applications suite.ĭuring iTools's introduction, Jobs discussed that owning both the client OS and the server-side components allowed Apple to create an "entirely new class of Internet services" exclusively for Mac users, free of charge. That likely contributed to iCards's eight-year run - the page was shuttered in 2008 with the release of MobileMe.ĭigital cards were nice, but the ability to create fully-custom digital and physical cards (and other stationary) within iPhoto and Aperture - and later, Photos and the now-discontinued Cards for iOS) app - ultimately doomed the website. iCardsĪpple also introduced iCards, a section of the company's website where users could go to create and send virtual greeting cards.Īrguably, Apple's cards were better-looking and classier than those offered by other greeting card sites at the time. Apple shuttered the site in February 2001 due to low interest. IReview was pitched as a trusted advisor for people exploring the Internet, but it was short-lived. "We're going to do to website reviews," Steve Jobs said, "as Amazon has done for CDs and books." That number grew slowly, as personal Mac users could append to existing reviews, but not create new ones. Initial reviews were written by Apple employees, and the site launched with 250 published reviews. IReview housed reviews and rankings of other websites. The redesign highlighted three new pillars in Apple's Internet strategy: iReview, iCards, and iTools. Macworld 2000 also marked the introduction of a new tabbed design to Apple's website, making the site easier to use and navigate.
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