Klaus' Korner

Last year I wrote about creating My Own Cloud with WebDAV on my MacMini running Snow Leopard. I had planned to write another article outlining how to setup WebDAV on my OS X server since I had not found any articles on that subject, but never got around it for two reasons: as it turned out the server admin GUI based app was rather limited in functionality; and therefore  using…

Accessing a Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV) server allows you to transfer files to and from a remote server. The WebDAV protocol lets remote users connect to a server to modify, edit, delete or create files.

In a previous article I outline my thoughts about Cloud Services, iCloud and available options for accessing data from my home system on my iPad when traveling. The article ended with me mention that the best solution was to setup my own “Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning protocol” (WebDAV) solution. I did not provide the details on “the how” since there are many good articles available on the Net that…

Much has been written about Apple’s iCloud offering that will be soon with us. Personally, my own view about Cloud Computing, posted at the end of last year, has not changed. I still don’t have that warm and fuzzy feeling when it comes to the security related to the Cloud, especially for storing my own data in someone else’s system. I admit I use MobileMe’s Address book and Calendar for…