Mac OS X makes it easy to connect to your own iDisk—you just enter your account information in the.Mac pane of System Preferences once, and from that point on all you need to do is click the iDisk. When you choose iDisk from the Finder’s Go menu, the Finder leverages mountwebdav and webdavfs to mount the iDisk resource as a disk volume. The Finder has thus functioned as a WebDAV client since Mac OS X 10.0; it has also been able to mount non-iDisk WebDAV resources.
Y-disk For Macbook Pro
The .mac blog—which isn't really a blog but shameless self-promotion for .Mac—has announced iDisk has gone all AJAX on us with a browser based iDisk. However, unlike the slackers trying to get rich off Web 2.0, the javascripted page/directory actually does stuff. Being a .Mac member, I had previously been embarrassed to hand out an URL worthy of the DaVinci Code for people to access content on my iDisk, but now that's Web 1.0 history.
Simply entering the URL idisk.mac.com/membername-Public now produces a page that automatically includes download links for whatever's currently in membername's Public folder. All you need to do is give the URL for your iDisk Public folder to the friends and colleagues you share with.
Idisk.mac.com Error
Access to the Public folder can be set for both read and write privileges, as well as password protection, through the .Mac preference pane in System Preferences. Also, by leaving off the '-Public' from the URL, I was presented with a request for my .Mac name and password, and then allowed access to my entire iDisk. As can be seen in the image, you get a 'List View' of your iDisk, complete with expanding folders that open when clicked, and open very quickly indeed. It's all pretty cool, though it is not cool factor infinity plus plus. I tried to drag and drop a file, but that didn't work—maybe for Web 3.0 at Christmas. Looking at the color scheme, one wonders if we are looking at the shape of Finders to come in Leopard. As one who loathes brushed metal, let's hope so. In the meantime, good job .Mac team!