Spymac, the World's Largest Mac Community, Launches AJAX-Enabled Spymac V

April 21, 2006; 02:43 AM
Spymac, the largest Macintosh community with over 1 million members, announced today Spymac V with advanced new technologies, services and communities for Mac users. Also available for Windows, Spymac V is the fastest, easiest way to share movies, photos and music online using sophisticated new technologies, such as AJAX and WebDAV to create fast and easy photo and video galleries and the first drag-n-drop website creator for Mac users. Spymac V’s basic services are free, with full desktop integration, more storage space and software available to Spymac Club members at $25/year.

Spymac V New Features include:
•     Spymac Gallery offers 3GB of storage space for all your large collection of videos, photos and music
•     Spymac Disk for desktop integration -- lets you view Spymac files on your desktop. 3GB of space is available for free with Club members enjoying another 3GB storage space for Gallery, 3GB for Disk and 3 GB email space
•     Drag-n-drop website creation at: yourname.spymac.com makes sharing easy and intuitive
•     Move-It – Switching resource from Windows to Mac users
•     What would you do for an iPod? – Marketplace for iPods - Get something done for your old iPod; new uses for your old iPod – get an iPod if you couldn’t afford one before
•     Spymac Club – extra member features for $25/year . Provides access to the Spymac software for blogs, uploading photos, backup and Sync, screensaver, no ads, 12 GB of total space.
•     Files can be made public or viewable only to your friends and colleagues
•     Multimedia files can be commented on, rated and polled
•     Mac users get special software and Windows users can use WebDAV or FTP to upload
•     First drag-n-drop creator for Mac users
•     Complete set of Internet tools
•     Software for blogging (club members only), iTunes sharing and more!

Spymac Gallery – Express Yourself like Never Before

The new Spymac Gallery allows you to express yourself like never before. It uploads massive multimedia files of up to 3GB online using Spymac Disk technology with drag-n-drop ease. Files can be made public or viewable only to your friends and colleagues. Visitors can also comment and rate your new multimedia creations for an interactive experience.

Spymac Disk

Spymac Gallery uses Spymac Disk technology to make it easy to drag files from your computer to the Spymac servers, where they can be displayed and viewed. Spymac Disk shows up on your desktop as a local drive just as an iPod or other device would, and managing files is just as simple. In fact, Spymac Disk synchronizes with the Spymac site in the background while you work, so sharing and storing files online has never been easier.

Spymac Disk uses WebDAV technology (World Wide Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning), a set of extensions to the HTTP protocol, which allows users to manage and control files on a remote web server. This allows you to create a desktop copy of a Spymac disk on your desktop, so you can easily transfer files from digital cameras or memory cards back and forth. Once your files are on your Spymac disk, you can share those files with anyone you want to. You can manage your pictures, video, music and documents from your desktop without having to know or understand WebDAV or HTTP.

Drag-n-Drop Website/Blog Creator

Spymac V now offers the first drag-n-drop website creator for Mac users, completing Spymac’s suite of tools that lets Mac users express themselves worldwide. Spymac members can blog, email, share multimedia, backup, sync, and create private discussion areas. Spymac’s Drag-n-Drop Site Creator allows users to build professional looking websites and blogs using easy drag-n-drop technology. The technology is the first ever AJAX based, online site building software. Anything in a web page, including text, pictures, forms and even web applications, can be dragged around and positioned exactly where you’d like them to be. This powerful online website/blog builder is incredibly easy to use.

Move IT – Switch from Windows to Mac

More people are switching from Windows to Mac than ever before, and the world’s largest Mac community has created the ultimate resource Apple support information and services to support the switch. Spymac’s new Move It section lets users:

•     Ask questions for free and get responses from the 1-million member community
•     Connect with other switchers for extra help and relationships
•     Keep track of their progress in the switch blog
•     Share, learn and collaborate in Spymac’s Move It Wiki - the fastest growing online resource dedicated to switching to a Mac

What would you do for an iPod?

Spymac asks the question: What would you do for an iPod? The site creates a totally new marketplace for more than the 40 million iPod owners with a chance to win an iPod or offer an iPod in a unique way. Get something done for your old iPod or get a free iPod for performing a task. This feature is free for Club members, $5 fee for everyone else.

Spymac Club

Spymac Club provides everything you need to play, work and live online. Socialize, build relationships and have fun sharing and exploring files, bookmarks, multimedia, schedules and other content with your friends and family for just $25 per year.

Spymac Club offers one of the web’s easiest-to-use blogs, a powerful homepage with extra storage, Multimedia Galleries, personal forums and Spymac’s new suite of Internet applications that seamlessly integrate into your desktop.

Included in the Spymac Club membership are software for web creation and blogging, free 3GB email account, 25MB of email attachments, virus/spam protection, website space of 3GB (v. 1MB for non-Club members), iTunes integration, larger file sharing storage of 3GB (v. 1MB for free), advertisement-free browsing, and Spymac Back-up, Sync, priority technical support, premium news content, screensaver features, and much more.

Spymac V is available immediately at www.spymac.com . Basic membership is free, with additional features available through Spymac Club for $25/year. For more info, go to the website: www.spymac.com www.spymac.com. The Spymac marketplace is supported by the world’s largest Mac site with 1 million members.

About Spymac

Spymac Network Inc. is a New York City corporation with offices in Dusseldorf, Germany and Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. Originally launched as a Macintosh enthusiast site, Spymac has now grown to the largest international Macintosh community with nearly one million registered users. Spymac boasts innovative multimedia galleries, the first fully Mac-compatible drag-n-drop homepages, an iPod marketplace, member communities and much more.