Here is today’s Daily Run Down.

• Blockbuster has officially filed for Chaper 11 bankruptcy with nearly $1 Billion in debt.
• iWork for iPad now supports Mobile Me’s iDisk.
• Google has launched Google New.
• Roku has released three new Units that one up the Apple Tv.
• The FCC’s website will be rebuilt using Drupal.
• Virginia is moving to execute it’s first womann in nearly a century.
• Someone has created an Etch-a-sketch iPad case.
• New Aurora Borealis webcam has caputred spectacular videos and images.
• Plants near Chernobyl have adapted to contaminated soil.
• The first in the reboot of the ‘You Don’t Know Jack’ series is approaching release.
• The FCC has unanimously approved ‘Super Wifi’.
• Archaeologists have uncovered a letter to an unknown language spoken by those in northern Peru.
• The World’s largest offshore wind farm has opened in the UK.
• Instapaper has gone from hobby to startup.
• Lightning on Venus is strikingly similar to lightning on Earth.

Look for more stories tomorrow. If an important story has been missed please leave it in the comments.

Tags: adapted, Apple TV, approves, archealogists, arriving, aurora borealis, bankruptcy, Blockbuster, captures, case, century, chapter 11, Chernobyl, closer, contaminated, drupal, Earth, Etch-a-sketch, execute, FCC, files, first, Google, Google New, hobby, iDisk, Images, instapaper, iPad, iWork, language, largest, launch, letter, lightning, Mobile Me, nearly, new, northern, officially, offshore, one up, opened, Peru, Plants, reboot, rebuilt, Released, Roku, series, similar, soil, strikingly, Super Wifi, supports, three, to startup, UK, unamimously, uncover, units, unknown, using, Venus, Video, virginia, webcams, website, wind farm, Woman, world, you don't know jack

Here is Today’s Daily RUn Down.

• App;e has updated mobile me for the iPhone OS, including iPad.
• Adobe’s download manager is installing software without consent.
• FBI is probing the webcam spy case.
• Billy Joel and Elton John have canceled their summer tour dates.
• The Chicago Bears will be raising ticket prices for the 2010-2011 season.
• US Intelligence agencies would like to have a super-sensitive Human lie-detector.
• A Lost World War II era Nuke project has been found in a Dutch Scrapyard.
• Microsoft has confirmed that a rootkit is causing the Windows XP blue screens.
• There is an online drive to elect Singer John Mellencamp to the US Senate.
• A suspect in the recent shooting at Northern Illinois University.
• The US Mint is redesigning the Penny.
• Copernicus, the famous heliocentrist, was born today 537 years ago today.

Look for more stories tomorrow.

Tags: adobe, Apple, Bears, Billy Joel, bluescreens, campaign, cancelation, download manager, dutch, Elton John, FBI, increase, iPad, John Mellencamp, lie-detectors, Microsoft, Mobile Me, Nazi, NIU, Nuke, rootkit, scrapyard, senate, shooting, software, spy case, suspect, Tickets, tour, update, US intelligence, webcam, Windows XP

This is just a quick rant on how Mobile me is definitely not something that most users who want schedule backups, that actually work, to be using. Why, well I have SuperDuper! all set to backup my Documents, Photos, and Amazon purchased music every two hours, since I know it won’t change that often.

While this SHOULD work, it is still syncing it’s initial attempt to copy those items. Now, granted, there are 8200 items, and it does total to just over 4GB, but still, the initial sync should have been completed by now. I did this about 24 hours ago, and it’s still not done, this is just too fucking ridiculous for me.

I’ll probably post over at macgasm a more extensive rant/review of Mobile me, but that will be forthcoming. I want to see how long this initial backup and several syncs end up working in the long run. So, if you’re looking for an affordable backup solution you might want to look at Amazon’s S3, if available. It’s roughly the same cost and it actually works with JungleDisk for automated backups.

Tags: Amazon S3, iDisk, Mobile Me, Rant