Jettison 1.2 - Close Your MacBook and Go

[prMac.om] Blacksburg, Virgnia –St. Clair Software is excited to announce the release of Jettison 1.2 for Mac OS X. This update adds users the ability to choose which types of drives it ejects, and automatically mount again any drives that are still connected when you wake their Mac back up.

What actually Jittison will do:

This small, purpose-built app automatically ejects external disk drives from your Mac earlier you put it to sleep mode. Are your ready to close your MacBook and leave your desk? Jettison protects your drive with hassle of manually ejecting Time Machine backup drives, network server volumes and flash drives before you put your MacBook to sleep - just close the lid and Jettison does it for you! Time Machine will be stopped and other data safely written to the drives before they're ejected.

What's New:
* Jettison will now try to remount ejected disks when your Mac wakes up.
* You can choose which types of disks to eject (Hard disk / DVD / Disk Image / iDisk / Network server).

System Requirements:
* Mac OS X 10.6 or 10.7 (Lion)
* 0.8 MB



Pricing and Availability:
Jettison 1.2 is a free update if you purchased an earlier version. It is available for $1.99 (USD) in the Mac App Store if you don't have it yet. Please see the St. Clair Software web site or the Mac App Store for a full change log and additional feature information.

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The Mac Store Launches New Promotion: 21 Macs in 21 Days

[prMac.com] Lake Oswego, Oregon - The Mac Store, The Northwest's major and locally owned Apple reseller, is thrilled to reveal 21 Macs in 21 Days- a promotion during which they will be giving away 21 MacBook Air computers to 21 different lucky people.

Any one can take part in this through visiting any Mac Store place from December 1, 2011 through December 21, 2011. Once you enter on the store, simply click on the ’21 Macs’ icon on any one of the display machine and then enter your contact information. Drawings are held daily so persons could have up to 21 chances to win. On December 2nd first winner will be announces and last on December 22nd.

Apple has updated its MacBook Air with next-generation processors, high-speed Thunderbolt I/Otechnology, Mac OS Lion and a backlit keyboard. The 11in. prize model claims twice the enactment as previous generations, has 1.6 GHz, Dual-Core Intel Core i5, 2GB SD Ram, 64GB Flash Storage, Bluetooth 4.0, two USB ports, Thunderbolt port, and Intel HD Graphics 3000 Processor with 256MB SD Ram shared with the main memory. Weighing in at only 2.38 lbs, this high-performance laptop packs a punch.

"We wanted to present a fun promotion with a substantial reward that would keep consumers engaged during the holiday season," said Erick Laabs, Vice President of The Mac Stores. "The new MacBook Air computers are very popular, and we love the idea of giving a bunch of them away."

"As a company we are all the time looking for new and exciting things to do in our stores," said Kevin Anderson, President and CEO. "Existence locally owned, we love the idea of giving back to the communities, and in this case, providing a whole slew of free Macintosh computers is really fun for us."

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Dolly Drive launches free seeding service for Time Machine online backup

[prMac.com] New York, New York – The developer of award winning Dolly Drive cloud store for Mac, Cirrus Thinking is excited to announce that, they will provide subscribers its free Seed for Speed services on most 250 GB and for advanced storage plans. The Suite has been designed to provide Mac users more speedy access to their date in the cloud.

With this seeding, subscriber gets a specially prepared transport drive on which they will transfer their hard drive content. The transport drive will be giving back to the Dolly Drive data center in a secure Fed Ex shipment and then uploaded right into Dolly Drive's cloud-based servers.

We have made the process easy for Mac users to overcome the greatest challenge of online backup- the time it takes to upload their data at first time, said by Anthony Palermo, CEO of Dolly Drive. "Once their digital content is in the cloud, incremental backups are quick and seamless and they can immediately recover critical files."

The Free Seeding option is available for most subscription plans over 250 GB. Users who select plans where free seeding is not included can add the service for $50 (USD).

Dolly Drive is a subscription software and online storage service planned for Apple's Time Machine. Furthermore to providing offsite cloud storage Mac users straight through the Time Machine application, the application lets users to create a bootable clone of their Mac on an external hard drive for local adversity recovery. It works with Apple's Lion and Snow Leopard platforms.

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