Telstra has revealed the addition of almost one million new mobile services in the six months to December 2011, but Sensis revenues plummeted 24 percent in 12 months.
Safari also has a couple of neat upgrades: it will now open and display pdf documents within the browser window. But best of all you can select any area of a web page, say the hottest video on YouTube, and create a window in the desktop widgets that will show what you selected and keep it updated every time the web page from which it is taken is updated.
Another new feature: Back to My Mac enables you to remotely access one Mac from another, transfer files and control the desktop. This is done via a .Mac account and only between Macs running users registered to the same .Mac account. You don't have to be logged in on the remote Mac: it just needs to be running (ie not in sleep mode) and with an active Internet connection.
Apple says that while this could be done before it was a big hassle needing static IP addresses and tweaks to get around firewalls and Network address translation.
There is much more: more even than Apple managed to show in an hour long preview. Most notable perhaps is Time Machine: simple backup to any attached hard drive: you can set this to happen hourly daily and to back up the entire hard drive so that in the event of a total disaster you can restore you complete operating environment with operating system, applications and documents to an entirely different machine.
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