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TidBITS#1084/11-Jul-2011

As Mac OS X Lion’s sometime-in-July release date comes ever closer, we’re focused on upgrades and transitions. Glenn Fleishman leads off with a brief bit about Intuit’s email to Quicken users about Lion incompatibilities, Michael Cohen provides a way of determining roughly how long it will take to download Lion from the Mac App Store, Steve Sande offers some options for iWeb users who currently host their sites on MobileMe, and Adam editorializes about how Apple’s recent quality failures point toward needing a well-designed public beta program. Plus, Jeff Carlson looks at how iMovie ’11 can now import from iMovie for iOS. Finally, Jeff Porten contributes a final report from the Computers, Freedom, and Privacy 2011 conference. Notable software releases this week include Airfoil 4.5, GraphicConverter X 7.3, KeyCue 5.3, Opera 11.50, Postbox 2.5, and EagleFiler 1.5.4.

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Alternatives to MobileMe for iWeb Sites

MobileMe hosting of iWeb-generated site is going away as of 30 June 2012, and while that means you have a year to move your iWeb sites somewhere else, you may as well start researching alternatives now. “Take Control of iWeb ’09” author Steve Sande offers some free and inexpensive options.