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zim said:
Nope, not me. Maybe Zimv2.0?

Okay so unique aliases... I am still yet to try it because I can't think of any names to use so here is another question. Can you, and I see you can turn them off, delete an alias?
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Yes, you can. The only HUGE problem I see here is the way people will use it and how it is advertised. They want you to use them as "junk mail" then delete them when they draw too much. BUT Apple does not recycle email adresses. Once they are deleted they are gone. This should rid us of a lot of email adresses really fast. Meaning get the ones you want as fast as you can.
 
Diatribe said:
Yes, you can. The only HUGE problem I see here is the way people will use it and how it is advertised. They want you to use them as "junk mail" then delete them when they draw too much. BUT Apple does not recycle email adresses. Once they are deleted they are gone. This should rid us of a lot of email adresses really fast. Meaning get the ones you want as fast as you can.
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Good point, I will put my thinking cap on and come up with some good names. Maybe apple needs to pay attention to the aliases and allow for them to be recycled.

My wife is jealous over the aliases because she has the .mac email only. wonder if there is a way to redirect the alias to her folder, not on the server but rather on the computer.

Thanks again :)
 
zim said:
Good point, I will put my thinking cap on and come up with some good names. Maybe apple needs to pay attention to the aliases and allow for them to be recycled.

My wife is jealous over the aliases because she has the .mac email only. wonder if there is a way to redirect the alias to her folder, not on the server but rather on the computer.

Thanks again :)
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You're welcome. :)
The only way I can think of how this might work is to forward the aliases to your wife's account. (Though I do not know if you can forward the aliases too or just the main adress via the webmail)
If you cannot, you could set it up as a POP account(the alias) and add a rule at mail.app that if an email comes to this alias it is redirected directly to your wife's account. Although the email would have to be checked through mail.app and through your account. The former would be much easier if possible.
 
MacPhreak said:
Personally, I think if your broadband is more than $30-35/mo, you're paying too much. My 1mb down/256k up DSL is $25/mo. Typical cable here is 2mb down/256k up & is $26/month for the first 6 months, then to $35/mo IIRC. Faster cable is available...for a price.
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Wow! That is a pretty good deal. Charter Cable is much more expensive than that. I think we are paying close to $50 a month for a 2Meg service, but there is nothing else right now and it does discount the TV.
 
.mac not a rip off but just not for me.

asphalt-proof said:
Who is your provider and where do you live?? Here in a small town in NC its pretty much $40 amonth for 512/256. Cable is not an option because Timewarner (Roadrunn er) told me that their service doesn't work with macs. Never really did anyt checking to confirm it though. even so, they are also $40 a month. I would throw down $30 in a heartbeat for bradband. Actually my wife would let me. :p
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DSL, SBC Yahoo! = $26.99/per month per year.
-2 Gigs of email storage (useless) but I get 10 extra email addresses if I ever want them.
-About a Gig of storage space for photos and backup stuff

I am going to let my .mac run out, but I do think I will miss .mac to some extent. It was easier to use, build simple websites, and featured decent integration functions. Unfortunately, I do need to tighten the belt a little bit so I just thought I could save the $100 even if it is for the entire year.
 
Diatribe said:
Yes, you can. The only HUGE problem I see here is the way people will use it and how it is advertised. They want you to use them as "junk mail" then delete them when they draw too much. BUT Apple does not recycle email adresses. Once they are deleted they are gone. This should rid us of a lot of email adresses really fast. Meaning get the ones you want as fast as you can.
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Yeah, I think Apple implemented the aliases all wrong. Quite stupid of them, really. Now unavailable email addresses could multiply by a factor of 6 (real address + 5 aliases for every user - more if retired aliases don't go back in the pool), and most of those would go unused. That's pretty crummy.

What they should have done is simply allow you to prefix your regular email address with anything you want, separated by a dash (assuming they didn't allow dashes in regular account names). So joeblow@mac.com could have aliases spam-joeblow@mac.com and dick_cheney_is_a_wiener-joeblow@mac.com but not george_bush@mac.com. The beauty of this system is that you could have unlimited aliases without any need to set them up ahead of time. It also means that there's no reason not to give aliases to email-only accounts.

Sheesh. The more I think about it, the more I think Apple made a boneheaded move by implementing this completely the wrong way. It seems so obvious.

Oh well! :rolleyes:
 
bankshot said:
Yeah, I think Apple implemented the aliases all wrong. Quite stupid of them, really. Now unavailable email addresses could multiply by a factor of 6 (real address + 5 aliases for every user - more if retired aliases don't go back in the pool), and most of those would go unused. That's pretty crummy.

What they should have done is simply allow you to prefix your regular email address with anything you want, separated by a dash (assuming they didn't allow dashes in regular account names). So joeblow@mac.com could have aliases spam-joeblow@mac.com and dick_cheney_is_a_wiener-joeblow@mac.com but not george_bush@mac.com. The beauty of this system is that you could have unlimited aliases without any need to set them up ahead of time. It also means that there's no reason not to give aliases to email-only accounts.

Sheesh. The more I think about it, the more I think Apple made a boneheaded move by implementing this completely the wrong way. It seems so obvious.

Oh well! :rolleyes:
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No, that's not a good idea because all you have to do is strip off everything before the '-' and now you have my account name and actual email address. The whole idea is to pick something new that has no connection to your account name.
 
crawdaddy said:
No, that's not a good idea because all you have to do is strip off everything before the '-' and now you have my account name and actual email address. The whole idea is to pick something new that has no connection to your account name.
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Ok, good point. :p I guess I was assuming that spam harvesting bots wouldn't be smart enough to know that. It just kind of stinks that people now have the ability to tie up good addresses without legitimately using them. Maybe Apple should have a random generator ('Your new alias is 87btJCJWzaBN2ufE@mac.com') instead of allowing users to choose. Is that better? ;)
 
If .mac is going to keep going and growing, Apple will need to start recycling the names or otherwise you'll end up with either joeblow26585643978@mac.com or xbgskurnkdkp@mac.com. Even if they would included iLife, who will be willing to pay big bucks for those.
If they wait two or three years then release the names again those addresses should be clean. Something like what the phone companies do with unlisted or private numbers.
Just my opinion.
 
g4cubed said:
If they wait two or three years then release the names again those addresses should be clean. Something like what the phone companies do with unlisted or private numbers.
Just my opinion.
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Well mobile phone numbers get recycled after about a year. That should suffice.

I really hope they upgrade the .mac to allow more than one pop account, so my wife can get her own email without funneling through my account and having rules forward it on to hers. I find that messy.

Also, I hope Tiger brings better intergration wiht .Mac so I can easily send email out with my .Mac address...unless of course you cna do this now and I dont now how :eek:
 
speaking of .mac i just tried spider-man 2 for mac. (free demo if you are a .mac subsciber) it was ok controls seem weird using mouse and keyboard but it seemed pretty kool.

I do think the cosole sytems have a better version of the game. They have different missions and i think using a controller helps alot. What you all think?
 
I heard that the PC version is very restrictive as compared to the console version. You can't go anywhere you want. I don't know if they made the Mac version the same way, but I've got a controller and I'll surely try it out.
 
The good ones are going quick

I managed to get richardchenery and condaleezarice. But I can't believe that Gilgamesh and Enkidu have already been taken.

Probably someone has them for their .mac accounts. I guess you can't pick an alias that is already someones account address.
 
Annoying.

I still can't get my Palm to show up in iSync. What a great idea, too bad it takes so long to get everything just right, I'm assuming.

Why do third parties have so much trouble with writing decent software for OSX. Logitech does well (sorry guys, not paying $60 for a one button mouse), even my ancient Creative Nomad Mp3 player showed up automatically in iTunes.

After iSync I still have to get the damn scanner to show up. Argh!
 
how do I make it stop telling me that the size of my idisk doesnt match every five minutes. I've 'ejected' and remounted the idisk, and still the same. is this just a bug that hopefully they'll fix on their end? it's driving me nuts!
 
bonk said:
how do I make it stop telling me that the size of my idisk doesnt match every five minutes. I've 'ejected' and remounted the idisk, and still the same. is this just a bug that hopefully they'll fix on their end? it's driving me nuts!
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The only way to make this go away is to turn off the local iDisk then turn it back on. The root cause of the problem has nothing to do with the .Mac servers - it is rooted in the fact that local iDisks are disk image-based, and the fact that a disk image currently cannot be resized.
 
aswitcher said:
Well mobile phone numbers get recycled after about a year. That should suffice.

I really hope they upgrade the .mac to allow more than one pop account, so my wife can get her own email without funneling through my account and having rules forward it on to hers. I find that messy.

Also, I hope Tiger brings better intergration wiht .Mac so I can easily send email out with my .Mac address...unless of course you cna do this now and I dont now how :eek:
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What do you mean you can't send email out with .mac? Are you talking about from mail.app? If so mail.app is great with .mac, just go to preferences, accounts and fill out the info from there. Mail.app can easily handle more than one acount.
 
I am just going to say it...

...Mac is damn cooooooool to use. You just don't get it if your not watching your novice web developer wife use .Mac with glee. No not for the power user, but that is not what Apple is all about. Soccer mom's unite!!!

SJ and dad out :p
 
munkle said:
What do you mean you can't send email out with .mac? Are you talking about from mail.app? If so mail.app is great with .mac, just go to preferences, accounts and fill out the info from there. Mail.app can easily handle more than one acount.
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AWESOME! Wow, after 5 mins fiddling I had it all set up. Most excellent. Thanks. :eek: :p
 
Xtremehkr said:
I still can't get my Palm to show up in iSync. What a great idea, too bad it takes so long to get everything just right, I'm assuming.

Why do third parties have so much trouble with writing decent software for OSX. Logitech does well (sorry guys, not paying $60 for a one button mouse), even my ancient Creative Nomad Mp3 player showed up automatically in iTunes.

After iSync I still have to get the damn scanner to show up. Argh!
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All you do is turn it on in the Hotsync conduit, and then go to iSync to add it.
 
aswitcher said:
AWESOME! Wow, after 5 mins fiddling I had it all set up. Most excellent. Thanks. :eek: :p
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No worries, just glad you managed to sort it out! Makes emailing a lot more fun! Check out Mail Appetizer for a cool app that gives you a notification window for any incoming mail, works great with .mac :)
 
nagromme said:
If you're buying .Mac for just the storage GB or just the email, then you're not buying wisely. If you're buying for ALL or most of the MANY features, including easy OS X integration (iDisk, iSync, Backup, etc.) and free/discounted software, then you know why GMail in no way competes with the .Mac package.

Personally, I doubt that very many people really need the whole package that .Mac offers. So don't buy it... I didn't :D And I'm talking my parents into dropping .Mac since they only use email anyway. Yet I don't see people who TRULY use .Mac's features complaining.

It's like saying Photoshop costs too much because you can re-size photos for free with other apps. You probably shouldn't be a Photoshop customer :)
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I agree. I tend to use a lot of the features of .Mac, and nothing else offers the same set of features and benefits that .Mac does.
 
pcharles said:
True, but you would have to be pretty dumb to make that mistake!
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Make the mistake of installing it or not installing it?

It's actually pretty easy to overlook that you need it. Apple and Palm need to do a better job, IMO, coordinating their syncing efforts.
 
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