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.Mac Webmail Sneak Peak

ifjake said:
still not worth it.

But for those of you that it is worth it (or have money enough to not care), and are clamoring about an iCal feature, Leopard server has some of that stuff in there, so who knows, it may also be in the works.
http://www.apple.com/server/macosx/leopard/
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I am SpyMac Club member until late 2007, and I must say most features are close to useless...forums are a mess, I don't have time for blogging/webdesigning, one takes a long while to upload something to the online disk and syncing is sketchy...

This means that .Mac is still pretty far off for me as well...after all, I can barely cope with answering my own emails...:(
 
BRLawyer said:
I am SpyMac Club member until late 2007, and I must say most features are close to useless...forums are a mess, I don't have time for blogging/webdesigning, one takes a long while to upload something to the online disk and syncing is sketchy...

This means that .Mac is still pretty far off for me as well...after all, I can barely cope with answering my own emails...:(
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u certainly had time to post a message on this board though
 
Silencio said:
Then go buy .Mac on eBay. You'll probably pay less than $50.
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Where do you see this? Every ebay auction I see for dotmac ends up being at least $75 or more with $5 shipping at least.

Not that great a deal.
 
EricNau said:
That's nice, but I'm still waiting for more storage.

To clarify, I have .Mac and love the features, I just think for $100/yr, Apple is being a little chintzy with storage (after all, Google offers 2 GB for free and AOL offers unlimited space for free).
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For $100 a year, they should boost the speed of iDisk by about oh, I don't know, 100x... still "too damn slow".... oh, and also drop the price to $50. If they wanna get more people in the door, they have to offer something free to start with, perhaps email should at least be free.
 
e-coli said:
When oh when are they going to update that insanely arcane iCal "feature" on .Mac. Why isn't it easy to access my calendars from my .Mac homepage? And WHY can't I ADD an event from .Mac. So frustrating.
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Amen on that. It's frustrating that a lot of .mac has been ignored for the past few years. It seemed like that service was improved more often back when it was free. I don't get it.
 
HiRez wrote:
All I can say is its about freakin' time. Next, how about a dynamic web-based interface for iDisk, so Windoze users don't have to install an application to use it from the desktop...
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if i understand what you're asking for, i think it might already exist. try idisk.mac.com/username. :)
 
Using your numbers that's $80/year, or 20% off. Not bad for doing basically nothing.

For what it's worth, you can get .Mac packages on eBay for $50. I did earlier this week and have already renewed using the Auth Key.

Again, see my post just above where I listed URL to a How-To I posted on how to save on DotMac. There are different ways to search that should help you if you've only been able to find $80 listings.

Starsky said:
Where do you see this? Every ebay auction I see for dotmac ends up being at least $75 or more with $5 shipping at least.

Not that great a deal.
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AvSRoCkCO1067 said:
Everyone's been plagued by the same email outages...why should you expect special treatment?
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I don't expect special treatment. Any dotmac user has the ability to petition Apple for a free year of service to compensate for reliability issues. I'm not pulling a fast one on Apple. It was their decision to give me a free year, and if they do it again it will also be their decision.

If they won't give me a free year as a gesture of goodwill, I am free to make my own decisions based on theirs.

There's nothing special about it. Just dealing with customer service.
 
I know it's a pain, but if you sit through the .mac seminar at an apple store, they offer it to both new and existing customers for $69. That's what I've done for the past two years.
 
.Mac backordered

Folks,

Even though I believe .mac to be overpriced for the value, after buying a couple of iMacs for my extended family, I decided that it made sense to by a Family Pack license of .mac because the members of my extended family aren't that computer savvy, so making photocasting and sharing files as easy as possible was a priority.

All the retailers I called had no stock on .mac retail boxes and told me they were on backorder. After placing an order a few days ago via the Apple Store online, the original ship date was estimated 1-3 weeks, but my order now shows an estimated ship date of October 24th.

I can only hope that this means that the .mac service and retail boxes are going to get released in late October with new functionality. I'm not going to hold my breath, but I can't figure why something as simple as a .mac retail box with an activation code is backordered more than a month since placing my order unless something was afoot.

I'll secretly wish for Merom MBPs at the same time of course. :D

Gavin.
 
gmckenzi said:
Folks,

Even though I believe .mac to be overpriced for the value, after buying a couple of iMacs for my extended family, I decided that it made sense to by a Family Pack license of .mac because the members of my extended family aren't that computer savvy, so making photocasting and sharing files as easy as possible was a priority.

All the retailers I called had no stock on .mac retail boxes and told me they were on backorder. After placing an order a few days ago via the Apple Store online, the original ship date was estimated 1-3 weeks, but my order now shows an estimated ship date of October 24th.

I can only hope that this means that the .mac service and retail boxes are going to get released in late October with new functionality. I'm not going to hold my breath, but I can't figure why something as simple as a .mac retail box with an activation code is backordered more than a month since placing my order unless something was afoot.

I'll secretly wish for Merom MBPs at the same time of course. :D

Gavin.
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Very interesting, I think this deserves an article update
 
Starsky said:
Where do you see this? Every ebay auction I see for dotmac ends up being at least $75 or more with $5 shipping at least.

Not that great a deal.
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Maybe its a time of the year thing. I paid $41 in May of this year.
 
justflie said:
Nah, it's probably just a mistake on apple's part (after all, i don't think this website has been officially released yet since we can't find links to it). I say that it is not photoshopped because i'm currently logged into .mac through the cited webpage. So yeah, it's real, otherwise i wouldn't be logged into .mac at the top.
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Its definitley photoshopped. Wheres all the V1aGR4 emails?
 
I got email from Apple in my .mac account with the a preview...

stuartluff said:
Its definitley photoshopped. Wheres all the V1aGR4 emails?
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I hope this is not redundant, but I recieved an email from Apple this morning with a preview:
 

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Date?

Sorry if this has already been mentioned somewhere (I couldn't find it), but...

...is there a date for when we can expect this change to .Mac's webmail?

Also, I can understand why Apple previewed iTV -- but why the preview for something like this? Will we be seeing more previews from them? Doesn't seem like their style. Not that I'm complaining... ;)
 
I am using spymac, I m not saying that apple services are bad but I rather use spymac and it also my cheaper.
 
gmckenzi said:
Folks,

Even though I believe .mac to be overpriced for the value, after buying a couple of iMacs for my extended family, I decided that it made sense to by a Family Pack license of .mac because the members of my extended family aren't that computer savvy, so making photocasting and sharing files as easy as possible was a priority.

All the retailers I called had no stock on .mac retail boxes and told me they were on backorder. After placing an order a few days ago via the Apple Store online, the original ship date was estimated 1-3 weeks, but my order now shows an estimated ship date of October 24th.

I can only hope that this means that the .mac service and retail boxes are going to get released in late October with new functionality. I'm not going to hold my breath, but I can't figure why something as simple as a .mac retail box with an activation code is backordered more than a month since placing my order unless something was afoot.

I'll secretly wish for Merom MBPs at the same time of course. :D

Gavin.
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The online store is showing 24 hours... hmm...

Well, it looks like today (10/16) is the last day to save $30 on .Mac when you get a mac.

Also, Apple updated .Mac in late September last year, so this wouldn't be a bad time to update it (include this enhancement, along with others).

applerocks
 
I was hoping the new web version would have a spam filter or domain blocker but I don't see it mentioned in the ad.
 
beerad72 said:
I was hoping the new web version would have a spam filter or domain blocker but I don't see it mentioned in the ad.
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.Mac webmail seems to be down again.
Could the update finally be happening??
 
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