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Apple Updates .Mac
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Umm, I read two other Apple-related web-sites that mentioned that Apple reserved two hour for the event. Three would also not make sense since it would run into the 1200 pm lunch hour (yummy; lunch).
You know what? .Mac will never take off until Apple makes it free like MSN or FaceBook. They don't stand a chance, and I think it's a very stupid move on Apple. I have a lot of friends that own Macs - but none of them use .Mac for sharing photos or anything (actually they don't use it at all). Nobody wants to pay for this kind of service, including myself. If it was free I am sure all of us would try it out and start using it and Apple would get a lot of "internet market share" and be able to make money on advertising and what else comes with this kind of community. But now... not happening.
$30 off that price when you buy it with a new CPU (either single or family).
http://store.apple.com/Catalog/US/Images/holidaygg/promobar/promobar_dotmac.html
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http://store.apple.com/Catalog/US/Images/holidaygg/promobar/promobar_dotmac.html
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Looks like the store wasn't quite ready to go live. I was trying to order iLife (most used app in our house) and encountering all kinds of errors. They just took it back offline. I did notice that iWorks is also instantly available.
That is my #1 request for .Mac. Glad to see it's there. I'm going to set things up right now.
And it's telling me it can't configure domains at this time. Guess I wait a little longer.
According to .mac you have to have iLife '08 to configure. I was heading to do the same thing.
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.Mac has always interested me from afar but I've always thought that anything more than free is too expensive!
.Mac has always interested me from afar but I've always thought that anything more than free is too expensive!
OK, help out an .Mac and IMAP-newbie.... You have 10GB of storage. and that space can be split between mail and iDisk. If you use iWeb, it will eat the iDisk-space, right? Or is there a third setting for the website?
Also, mail... suppose you set aside 1GB of space for mail... When that space gets full, can you remove mail from the server, while keeping them in the local machine? It's my understand that IMAP keeps the mail between the local machine and server in sync.
Third: all this .Mac-stuff works very well with iPhoto. How about Aperture?
Also, mail... suppose you set aside 1GB of space for mail... When that space gets full, can you remove mail from the server, while keeping them in the local machine? It's my understand that IMAP keeps the mail between the local machine and server in sync.
Third: all this .Mac-stuff works very well with iPhoto. How about Aperture?
Junk mail support also added
They also added junk mail support to the .Mac webmail. You can enable junk mail now, and also have junk mail automatically moved to the Junk folder. I hope that this works for all incoming email, so that I don't see as much junk in my iPhone inbox (I get about 4-5 a day). Just turned it on (it's in Mail Preferences), so I don't know how well it works yet, but we'll see.
I never noticed that you could have a photo tied to your outgoing mail before, but I don't know if that's new, too. Looks like there were a few unannounced features added to .Mac, and not just web galleries...
They also added junk mail support to the .Mac webmail. You can enable junk mail now, and also have junk mail automatically moved to the Junk folder. I hope that this works for all incoming email, so that I don't see as much junk in my iPhone inbox (I get about 4-5 a day). Just turned it on (it's in Mail Preferences), so I don't know how well it works yet, but we'll see.
I never noticed that you could have a photo tied to your outgoing mail before, but I don't know if that's new, too. Looks like there were a few unannounced features added to .Mac, and not just web galleries...
I had been paying for 4 GB of storage on .mac - they upped my account to 30 GB (30720 MB) with 250 GB Data Transfer/month.
I get the same. Oddly the updated .mac features page on storage says:
"Storage upgrades. For big appetites.
If thats still not enough to meet your needs, you can purchase an additional 10GB of online storage for a total of 20GB and 200GB of monthly data transfer."
this is a nice little update to .mac but hardly anythign groundbreaking like i was hoping for... especially given the fact that steve jobs has acknowledged that they (apple) have not fully utilized .mac's potential.
I think the big new features will come with Leopard (e.g.: Access all your computers remotely). Today, Steve probably only mentioned .Mac's increased storage space because of iLife's new online features.
"Make money on advertising" isn't apple's way of doing things. I really can't imagine an apple site with flash ads all over. On the other hand, they have been partnering with Google a lot lately...
In any case, I'd rather pay the money and have my site be ad-free.
Nevermind, just found this:
Mac monitors the amount of "data transfer" (the amount of information viewed by visitors to your websites) associated with each .Mac account in order to ensure a high level of performance for all .Mac users. When you purchase a .Mac membership, you receive 10 gigabytes (GB) of storage and up to 100 GB of data transfer capacity per month.
Although my .mac account still reads 10 GB transfer limit, I'm sure it will update soon...
My storage space shows the 10GB.. adjusted my email to 600MB which is plenty for meI do a lot of sorting.
My wife's email only account still says 50MB yet on the FAQ it says email only accounts are 512MB, looking forward to that update
Overall very happy and hope that this will be a yearly event and not a every now and then when we look bad sorta thing.
Hoping to get iLife08 so I can try out the domain feature
My wife's email only account still says 50MB yet on the FAQ it says email only accounts are 512MB, looking forward to that update
Overall very happy and hope that this will be a yearly event and not a every now and then when we look bad sorta thing.
Hoping to get iLife08 so I can try out the domain feature
Amen!
Free is best... Realistically, even if the price 49.99$ it would grow exponentially among us, 99$ for a service that is easily free on the internet is silly. Even over convenience, the threshold is blocked...
Free is best... Realistically, even if the price 49.99$ it would grow exponentially among us, 99$ for a service that is easily free on the internet is silly. Even over convenience, the threshold is blocked...
Hey
I got a .Mac "account" for Christmas, but i haven't activated it, I was/am waiting until I finish university to start the yearly subscription as then I'll have more time to create sites in iWeb and actually use it more than when i did during term time.
My question is... will what i have in "the box" still work with the new updates announced today? (Probably will but i'd like to make sure)
THANKS
I got a .Mac "account" for Christmas, but i haven't activated it, I was/am waiting until I finish university to start the yearly subscription as then I'll have more time to create sites in iWeb and actually use it more than when i did during term time.
My question is... will what i have in "the box" still work with the new updates announced today? (Probably will but i'd like to make sure)
THANKS
I was able to configure it without iLife '08 (although it does say it requires iWeb '08; I have no idea why). My registrar is in the process of changing the CNAME record so I guess I'll see shortly.According to .mac you have to have iLife '08 to configure. I was heading to do the same thing.
I'll be buying the family pack later today. My wife currently has an "email only' account, but she'll surely want to have her own gallery and iWeb site.
