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coolfactor said:
That's the point, nobody needs .mac, it's horrificly expensive and you don't get ****. What happened to the good old days of iTools when this stuff was priced correctly, ie. FREE.
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That's the point, nobody needs .mac, it's horrificly expensive and you don't get ****. What happened to the good old days of iTools when this stuff was priced correctly, ie. FREE.
That's a rather sweeping statement to say NOBODY needs .mac. If you dug deeply you could say NOBODY needs anything other than a local stream, a spear and the ability to make fire!!!!
I have been a .mac member for about 2 years. I got it as a very easy method of posting an iphoto album and imovie creation to a webpage so fellow stag night revellers could see the antics we had got up to. Don't ask for the links - they were removed shortly after to spare the groom's blushes!!!!!
Since then I use the .mac email address extensively and find it is such a nice email address to have - the aliases are very nice too - and if Tiger allows me to send email from an alias via mail (rather than logging onto webmail) all the better.
I often upload photos from iphoto very quickly to a webpage - I have a busy work/home life so have nowhere near enough time to create my own webpages from scratch. The upload from iphoto is so intuitive it could only have been done by apple.
If I have entries in my address book or calendar or safari bookmarks - all entered on my home imac - I can access these from my work PC with no problems. And I find the .mac webmail interface easily the best webmail I have tried (I have tried ntl, wanadoo, lineone/tiscali, yahoo, hotmail). It even deals with writing a huge email and not logging you off because it has taken so long nicely by asking if you need more time. Other webmails have frustrated me when I have written a long email - clicked send and then been told I had been logged out due to inactivity - thus losing everything I had just written. Because it is IMAP rather than POP I can see very old emails in my inbox online and it just seems so much nicer than others
As you say - I don't NEED .mac - but I find it aids me in getting things done quicker and more effectively - and I for one find it tremendous value £69/year (less than £6 a month - that's like 3 vaccuum packed sandwiches from work, which I could definitely do without). Yeah more space is always nicer but I am only using 130M of my space now and that is without having to worry about trimming email down aggressively.
I am on the verge of getting a new imac (not in a rush so waiting for any upgrades to the spec) and .mac with Tiger sounds like it will make switching between this and my existing mac effortless if all my email, address book, etc is kept nice and synchronised.
So you can count me as one happy .mac member
Sav
I have been a .mac member for about 2 years. I got it as a very easy method of posting an iphoto album and imovie creation to a webpage so fellow stag night revellers could see the antics we had got up to. Don't ask for the links - they were removed shortly after to spare the groom's blushes!!!!!
Since then I use the .mac email address extensively and find it is such a nice email address to have - the aliases are very nice too - and if Tiger allows me to send email from an alias via mail (rather than logging onto webmail) all the better.
I often upload photos from iphoto very quickly to a webpage - I have a busy work/home life so have nowhere near enough time to create my own webpages from scratch. The upload from iphoto is so intuitive it could only have been done by apple.
If I have entries in my address book or calendar or safari bookmarks - all entered on my home imac - I can access these from my work PC with no problems. And I find the .mac webmail interface easily the best webmail I have tried (I have tried ntl, wanadoo, lineone/tiscali, yahoo, hotmail). It even deals with writing a huge email and not logging you off because it has taken so long nicely by asking if you need more time. Other webmails have frustrated me when I have written a long email - clicked send and then been told I had been logged out due to inactivity - thus losing everything I had just written. Because it is IMAP rather than POP I can see very old emails in my inbox online and it just seems so much nicer than others
As you say - I don't NEED .mac - but I find it aids me in getting things done quicker and more effectively - and I for one find it tremendous value £69/year (less than £6 a month - that's like 3 vaccuum packed sandwiches from work, which I could definitely do without). Yeah more space is always nicer but I am only using 130M of my space now and that is without having to worry about trimming email down aggressively.
I am on the verge of getting a new imac (not in a rush so waiting for any upgrades to the spec) and .mac with Tiger sounds like it will make switching between this and my existing mac effortless if all my email, address book, etc is kept nice and synchronised.
So you can count me as one happy .mac member
Sav
iGary said:
I agree. It looks great.
Of course it's always subjective what something is "worth", but here's a list of what I like about .Mac:
- fast webpage creation from iPhoto (end result much more pleasing than albums in say Ofoto or Snapfish)
- email aliases and the security it brings
- syncing between home and work computers (and will be even better with Tiger keychain sync)
- uploading recent pics to .Mac screensaver so my mom can see what's up on her machine automagically
- doing a quick iDisk backup from my Powerbook wirelessly (using Backup), instead of having to hook up the external firewire drive
YMMV 😛
dobbin
macrumors 6502a
Totally agree with everything Sav says above. I have even used the sandwiches comparison myself to show how little it costs!
I am the only person in my group of friends who always put photos on the web after weddings, stag nights etc and everyone is always glad to see them. Noone else has the ability to do it easily, and so no-one else bothers. Being able to make a webpage in less then 5 minutes makes .mac worth the money for me.
I am the only person in my group of friends who always put photos on the web after weddings, stag nights etc and everyone is always glad to see them. Noone else has the ability to do it easily, and so no-one else bothers. Being able to make a webpage in less then 5 minutes makes .mac worth the money for me.
I too am in the can't do without it camp. I got it when it first arrived and have used it regularly ever since. It's perfect for quickly uploading files, photos and music for my friends and relatives including the few PC users I know and my group of work colleagues all use the calendar sharing to know what we're supposed to be doing and where.
I was going to ask why anybody would need 2 Gigs of email storage (and I still can't imagine that anybody could actually need to keep that much) but as Munkle points out, Gmail can be used for (slow) storage for other stuff. It would certainly be good if Apple upped the space but it's still an invaluable tool for me.
I was going to ask why anybody would need 2 Gigs of email storage (and I still can't imagine that anybody could actually need to keep that much) but as Munkle points out, Gmail can be used for (slow) storage for other stuff. It would certainly be good if Apple upped the space but it's still an invaluable tool for me.
LaMerVipere
macrumors 6502a
MagnaPalam
macrumors newbie
From what I've heard/read, .Mac is no longer carrying virus software. For some reason neither McAfee or Norton want to mess with OSX anymore.
So, do they finally have an editable Calendar .mac webinterface
no... there is a calendar on the side - but all it shows is the days of the month...
Might it need Tiger to enable editing a calendar? Or do they really think i don't have anything to add to my calendar when i'm not at home? 😡
no... there is a calendar on the side - but all it shows is the days of the month...
Might it need Tiger to enable editing a calendar? Or do they really think i don't have anything to add to my calendar when i'm not at home? 😡
billyboy
macrumors 65816
Dr. Dastardly said:
For extra bucks you can have more of everything, storage and accounts - if the naysayers can be bothered to check out what is on offer with .Mac they might find out it is a pretty comprehensive and easy to use internet service thst is great for non geeks. Sometimes it is worth paying for service. YMMV.
Dr. Dastardly said:
Yeah, really the amount of storage given is a joke. Look at Gmail they have more than 2 gigs they are giving away for free.
daveL
macrumors 68020
I see this statement so often about Gmail, but Gmail doesn't offer iDisk storage or Web content. What % of Gmail users even use 100 MB? It's a marketing ploy on the part of Google, nothing more. It's easy to offer 2 GB of email storage when you know no one will even come close to using it. Even if there are some people that can accumulate that much email, they are very, very rare. Most email has to traverse an unknown number of email servers, many of which have modest (5 - 10 MB) message size limits, so it's difficult, and slow, to send large attachments to fill such a huge mailbox.makey said:
Anyway, .Mac and Gmail are Apples and Grapefruits, so get over it.
Having said that, I wouldn't mind seeing Apple double the storage .Mac currently offers, but I think they would have done it yesterday, if they were going to do it any time soon.
I'll agree with the gig thing being nothing more than marketing bull. Why would anyone want to go through the hassle of emailing themselves pictures when sites like imageshack.us and photobucket let you share the photos and flash files for free? Sounds more like a 'my penis is bigger than yours' argument than anything useful...
I'm using the 60-day trial of .mac, and while it's nice to have the iLife integration, there is very little flexibility when it comes to how your pages work.
I know enough HTML to do some basic things, so I like to upload my own pages, or at the very least modify the ones created by iLife apps. But .mac doesn't like you messing around too much with those.
With a brand new baby and family/friends scattered all over, I'm thinking about grabbing my own domain name and hosting it with somebody that has a lot more storage space. I won't have iLife integration, but I'll have a whole lot more freedom, and for a lot less.
Spymac has been suggested - any other alternatives to .mac out there?
I know enough HTML to do some basic things, so I like to upload my own pages, or at the very least modify the ones created by iLife apps. But .mac doesn't like you messing around too much with those.
With a brand new baby and family/friends scattered all over, I'm thinking about grabbing my own domain name and hosting it with somebody that has a lot more storage space. I won't have iLife integration, but I'll have a whole lot more freedom, and for a lot less.
Spymac has been suggested - any other alternatives to .mac out there?
Kerry Sanders
macrumors regular
makey said:
Yes, but Google is for email only. .Mac gives you so much more. I think the $69 is worth it for the .Mac account. I ordered it with my Power Mac that I ordered yesterday. 250 meg is a lot of space for mail, web pages, and minimal backups. iDrive is not something that someone would use for a large backup.
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At $8 per month, .Mac has been very useful for me. I suppose each to his or her own. Having my address book, calendar, bookmarks, and iDisk available to me at work (while I'm on a PC, yuck!) has been invaluable. Because information and files are accessible via .Mac, I find that I don't need to carry a flash drive or a PDA. Also, Homepage is great when I want to get something on the web quickly, and I only use a WYSIWYG web page program when I want to do something other than work with Homepage templates. The .Mac SMTP server offers options to get around the port blocking of my local ISP for sending mail. .Mac also hosts my weblog, and gave me free software (iBlog) to manage the weblog and back it up offline. Having a public folder for sharing files is great. Also, my .Mac webpage and its content have not appeared in Google or other search engines that I have checked (recently). Not a guarantee of privacy by any means, but I like the fact that I am a short detour off from the information superhighway.
At $8 per month, .Mac has been very useful for me. I suppose each to his or her own. Having my address book, calendar, bookmarks, and iDisk available to me at work (while I'm on a PC, yuck!) has been invaluable. Because information and files are accessible via .Mac, I find that I don't need to carry a flash drive or a PDA. Also, Homepage is great when I want to get something on the web quickly, and I only use a WYSIWYG web page program when I want to do something other than work with Homepage templates. The .Mac SMTP server offers options to get around the port blocking of my local ISP for sending mail. .Mac also hosts my weblog, and gave me free software (iBlog) to manage the weblog and back it up offline. Having a public folder for sharing files is great. Also, my .Mac webpage and its content have not appeared in Google or other search engines that I have checked (recently). Not a guarantee of privacy by any means, but I like the fact that I am a short detour off from the information superhighway.
Ok, so I'm not a fan of resuscitating topics that are long dead but I couldn't find any other topic on this.
Simply, where the hell are my .Mac exclusive widgets? When I bought Tiger I, along with quite a few others, though 'Hey, why not get .Mac too'. It looked like a good deal with these free widgets and a virus scanner too but where are they? Have McAfee even posted a tiger patch for Virex.
The .Mac relaunch seems like a bit of a waste: a slightly nicer front page but its a been a bit of a let down...
Simply, where the hell are my .Mac exclusive widgets? When I bought Tiger I, along with quite a few others, though 'Hey, why not get .Mac too'. It looked like a good deal with these free widgets and a virus scanner too but where are they? Have McAfee even posted a tiger patch for Virex.
The .Mac relaunch seems like a bit of a waste: a slightly nicer front page but its a been a bit of a let down...