You can thank anonymous postings for this.

Turning a spreadsheet into an application is not programming. It's being an accountant.

The rest of you have crappy hardware that require new batteries or repairs.

Nearly 3 years running, my iPad 1 still does 10h in heavy WiFi usage, including videos.

Where your life will be filmed by the myriad of critter cams out there.

Between those and cracks in the Airbus 380 carbon wing, I'm not sure which is safer.

Funny how 20 years ago I wrote a short story about an editorial staff whose job it was to read an edited dictionary to a computer so that it could build its vocabulary and knowledge DB. Noob mistakenly reads a crossed-out word and computer extrapolates, killing every intelligence service agents in order to compete in a Game.

With the notable exceptions that the poor now use violent crimes to obtain said x-boxes.

At that speed I would be more concerned if the arm was within reach of other appendages.

Great. Another web site dumbing down the internet.

Please make it optional. My iOS client can view regular web site just fine thank you. And I can zoom into it as required.

Geez.

Might as well go back to the WAP days...

You guys are completely paranoid.

There is no telling the difference between a CD that iTunes ripped or aggregated from your disk (which might have been ripped prior to iTunes' existence). Remember MacAMP (or any *AMP)? How about SoundJam? There was music before iTunes. (I tell ya!)

They are SELLING you an online subscription to "upgrade" (ie, crossgrade) this music to their catalog. This way they can stream to your devices and... believe it or not... possible upcoming thin, storage-less inexpensive devices.

The only trap in there, if any, is user's reliance on a yearly subscription; how many times are you willing to pay for the music you already own?

Yeah I'm aware.

Thing is, given I have to move lots of stuff out of MobileMe before June 2012, I would rather make sure that any new site content be in a format that i know will be available in the futur and can still be edited with new content. In particular, photos out of my Galleries that were linked into forum posts will have to be relinked (cringe) off my new hosting. No way I'm going to redo that from iCloud albums. Screw the cloud: I want to own my data.

So, older content from iWeb is currently being pushed onto my new hosting as-is.

New content is being put into MediaWiki and SimpleMachine.

Am still looking for a decent photo sharing solution. Tying to decide between 4images, coppermine or Gallery.

No. Steve Jobs yanked the services out of reach. Happened with iTools, Dot mac groups and HomePage, iWeb & MobileMe.

Sure MobileMe will remain available until June 2012, but it doesn't change the fact that I have THOUSANDS of MobileMe Gallery -hosted images linked in hundreds of forum posts all over the next. I will have to relink those images.

So yeah: call that a gun to my head.

Yeah, I know. Was already using iWeb for a couple of other web stores via FTP.

I actually, last night, tested installation of a couple of solutions and moved *some* of my iWeb content to the new hosting. I will ultimately recode that to use SQL DB.

I moved some content into a new MediaWiki and installed SimpleMachine forum on there as well.

Still looking for a decent visual editor for the fluff stuff. But I will start to bring things down to a closer level to hand-coded. I just don't have the cash for DreamWeaver (certainly not worth it for this project) nor do I have much confidence in other tools.

The biggest tool was myself for trusting that Apple could actually be considered serious about any of its online services. They can go fsck themselves with iClouds. No way I`m pushing my data out of my reach.

Solid contender. I actually used Wikis a lot at work as it is integrated with the set of tools we develop (collectively).

Will have to examine this further as to how I can extend it with some SQL backend DB I need to hook up.

Thanks for the Wiki reminder.

So that's essentially an iWeb -style tool. Looks promising. Thanks for the pointer.