.Mac has so much potential. I really hope this signals a completely revamped service is on its way.
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Apple's .Mac Service to be Renamed, Revamped?
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There's Something In The %@.
%@ Rules!
So does this mean we will see t-shirts at WWDC that say:
I use %@.
?
Rocketman
%@ Rules!
The sole reason I have .mac is because of its tight, seamless integration with publishing on iWeb.
The email is great, too - lots of storage, IMAP servers (which are way ahead of POP3 servers). But now that gmail is IMAP as well, .mac no longer has the advantage.
Bring on the updates
The email is great, too - lots of storage, IMAP servers (which are way ahead of POP3 servers). But now that gmail is IMAP as well, .mac no longer has the advantage.
Bring on the updates
iWorld
Am I the only one who remembers (and subscribed to) eWorld??
(oops, I think it was eWorld, not iWorld, it's been A LONG TIME! HAHA!)
Am I the only one who remembers (and subscribed to) eWorld??
(oops, I think it was eWorld, not iWorld, it's been A LONG TIME! HAHA!)
Am I the only one who remembers (and subscribed to) iWorld??
My be you are! I thought AppleLink was old and obscure...
Did you use CyberDog to access it?
.Mac Use
I have 3 Macs (office, home, laptop). The folks I work for are not big enough to have an exchange server or the like. So, I use .Mac to sync my documents, calendars, contacts, and web bookmarks. It is great because our (my wife and I) calendars are always in sync and I can work from anywhere.
I have 3 Macs (office, home, laptop). The folks I work for are not big enough to have an exchange server or the like. So, I use .Mac to sync my documents, calendars, contacts, and web bookmarks. It is great because our (my wife and I) calendars are always in sync and I can work from anywhere.
Some improvements I'd like to see:
1) Much improved performance of iDisk DAV activities
2) Much more storage
3) Much more robust web hosting for medium/low activity sites to support (make practical) PodCast hosting, reasonable amount of personal Video hosting, etc.
4) Web site High-Level scripting language (server-side) in addition to Web 2.0 client-side
5) Web site SQLite support
6) Improved Web Quicktime (SMIL, Interactivity, programmability, Streaming) to obviate Flash (et al)
7) Optional Cloud backup of large local files such as iTunes libraries, iPhoto Libraries, iMovie Libraries/Events
8) Integration with Apple Home server & AppleTV, where services are transparently available locally or remotely to any capable device-- e.g. at a friend's house, I should be able to access and play anything from my home AppleTV (iTunes Library) via my iPhone (or his computer or AppleTV).
1) Much improved performance of iDisk DAV activities
2) Much more storage
3) Much more robust web hosting for medium/low activity sites to support (make practical) PodCast hosting, reasonable amount of personal Video hosting, etc.
4) Web site High-Level scripting language (server-side) in addition to Web 2.0 client-side
5) Web site SQLite support
6) Improved Web Quicktime (SMIL, Interactivity, programmability, Streaming) to obviate Flash (et al)
7) Optional Cloud backup of large local files such as iTunes libraries, iPhoto Libraries, iMovie Libraries/Events
8) Integration with Apple Home server & AppleTV, where services are transparently available locally or remotely to any capable device-- e.g. at a friend's house, I should be able to access and play anything from my home AppleTV (iTunes Library) via my iPhone (or his computer or AppleTV).
I use .Mac to:
* Sync iCal, Address Book, and Bookmarks across my 3 macs.
* Back-up same information online every night
* Publish photo albums from iPhoto to the web (it re-sizes images and gives me online flipping-effects, which I can't do on my own web server). This is a BIG one. What I do in 2 minutes in iPhoto would take me 30 minutes using any other method AND it looks tons better and has more functionality. (Users can change the background color of my website to suit their own desire when looking at photos, for example.)
And...that's about it. I have my own hosting plan with another company that I do my own site and e-mail on, so I don't use .Mac for that. I'm basically paying $33 a year for each of those functions. I wish it was cheaper, but it's worth it to me.
I'd sure love to gain 3 or 4 more "must-have" functions. I still don't recommend .Mac to other people, even though I use it. I'd love to tell everyone "yeah, you should get it too," but I can't do that yet.
* Sync iCal, Address Book, and Bookmarks across my 3 macs.
* Back-up same information online every night
* Publish photo albums from iPhoto to the web (it re-sizes images and gives me online flipping-effects, which I can't do on my own web server). This is a BIG one. What I do in 2 minutes in iPhoto would take me 30 minutes using any other method AND it looks tons better and has more functionality. (Users can change the background color of my website to suit their own desire when looking at photos, for example.)
And...that's about it. I have my own hosting plan with another company that I do my own site and e-mail on, so I don't use .Mac for that. I'm basically paying $33 a year for each of those functions. I wish it was cheaper, but it's worth it to me.
I'd sure love to gain 3 or 4 more "must-have" functions. I still don't recommend .Mac to other people, even though I use it. I'd love to tell everyone "yeah, you should get it too," but I can't do that yet.
Hear! Hear!
After so many years of patiently suffering it'd be wonderful to have a decent - read useable - service
I've been calling my MacBook for Mobile Me for a couple of years now.
Maybe I should have copyrighted it?
Maybe I should have copyrighted it?
Very likely the main reason is to accommodate Windows iPhone users. Vast majority of iPhone users are windows users.
The service may become free or very inexpensive $29.99 a year and Google may have a part on this. We are also likely (in my mind) to see 20 to 100 Gig of disk space for each account, and you can purchase more of course.
The service may become free or very inexpensive $29.99 a year and Google may have a part on this. We are also likely (in my mind) to see 20 to 100 Gig of disk space for each account, and you can purchase more of course.
My be you are! I thought AppleLink was old and obscure...
Did you use CyberDog to access it?
This was LONG BEFORE CyberDog! And it was eWorld not iWorld. You dialed into eWorld, like AOL. This was the early 1990's!
I think you mean they've applied for a trademark for MOBILE ME, an application which is currently suspended.
The name sounds like something T-Mobile would have come up with...not Apple.
I think some of the iDisk performance problems are really Finder's fault. I find it works much better when using Terminal.
Finder is probably built on some abstraction where you can drop in different underlying filesystem modules without Finder caring. But this is a bad idea in some ways because it needs to know so it can behave differently for remote filesystems. e.g. merge requests in to one, cancel some more frivolous requests such as live previews.
Finder is probably built on some abstraction where you can drop in different underlying filesystem modules without Finder caring. But this is a bad idea in some ways because it needs to know so it can behave differently for remote filesystems. e.g. merge requests in to one, cancel some more frivolous requests such as live previews.
I'd like to see a 2-plan system. They could have a free service that offers data syncing across all types of devices, and then a paid version that offers web space and things of that nature.
The idea being that ALL iPhone and Mac users would want to sign up for the free service and then some of them would eventually be tempted to upgrade to the paid one.
I bet they'd get MORE subscribers than they do now, since everyone would have a 'free taste' of a cut-down service and might decide they want everything the paid-version has to offer.
Right now most people just ignore .Mac and that's that.
Yeah, I've noticed that copying and pasting a file to iDisk is about a million times faster than dragging the file into iDisk. Surely that difference has to be Finder's fault, right?
That is a very interesting idea!
Especially, since Apple will let enterprises run a flavor of iTunes App Store so they can control distro of iPhone apps within an organization.
Hmmm....
I ended up not purchasing .MAC because a lot of people (not on macs) complained they couldnt see my picture album when i sent the links. I bought a new macbook pro and no one mentioned .MAC discount, maybe i didn't look around.
