The Web 2.0 era saw the consolidation of 3 different kinds of website: social websites (which include communication tools like Twitter and bigger networks like Facebook), collaborational websites (Google Docs, Wave) and online backup solutions. Not exactly a “websites”, when people started browsing more and basically doing more stuff with their computers, the need of a virtual, remote yet secure backup solution seemed pretty much obvious. I mentioned many times what I think it’s the best app to effortlessly store up to 2GB of data for free, Dropbox, and I’ve also written a post about 40 creative uses of Dropbox. That post basically talked about many different ways of using Dropbox not only to store simple backups of files and folders, but how you can use it to synchronize applications libraries and, for example, browser bookmarks across multiple Macs. But wouldn’t it be great to have a built-in, Apple -like solution to do that instead of setting up a lot of little tricks and hacks?
As a second post for the “It could be a Mac app” series today I’ll talk about MobileMe: I’ll take a look at the pros and cons of Apple’s web interface for its sync & backup tool, the actual usability of the webapp and why you should even consider of making a Fluid app out of it.
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