Interesting... Do you use Leopard, as I do? I've heard the iDisk is faster in Tiger.
By the way, I can upload to Amazon S3 at 400KBps, which is the maximum bandwidth my connection allows.
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Interesting... Do you use Leopard, as I do? I've heard the iDisk is faster in Tiger.
By the way, I can upload to Amazon S3 at 400KBps, which is the maximum bandwidth my connection allows.
Yes, I'm using leopard but it was just as fast when I had tiger. I think the connection at my school is insane. I don't know if we're the ones providing the service for everyone else in town or if we have a superhighway as part of our network.
I pay $100/year (or $70/year when I buy a new Mac) for .Mac.
The email is great. Syncing different Macs is great. The iPhoto Web Galleries are fantastic. But most importantly, the web hosting is good. One-touch uploading from iWeb makes .Mac worth it for me.
The email is great. Syncing different Macs is great. The iPhoto Web Galleries are fantastic. But most importantly, the web hosting is good. One-touch uploading from iWeb makes .Mac worth it for me.
I love dotmac it works perfectly for me with the exception of one thing, which is that there is no juck mail filter untill it hits mail.app
Yeah, $8.25 per month is just crazy! That's over 27 cents per day!
Actually, Gmail works really well with Mail.app. You never need to use the web interface.
I know but I hate gmail.... hence the "hate hate gmail" its just not working for me, its not reliable enough (almost al my friends with a Mac use that and it fails repeatedly E.g it won't let them log in etc.) and since I chose to use my MacBook at school instead of regular paper I need to mail EVERY SINGLE thing I write, my friends often freak out when the gmail server won't let them send or receive mail, whilst .mac works like a charm. Besides iChat is quite handy. In my case I can justify the 99$ and besides I use that account to purchase songs in iTunes.
-Victor
Yeah, $8.25 per month is just crazy! That's over 27 cents per day!
Actually, Gmail works really well with Mail.app. You never need to use the web interface.
I know but I hate gmail.... hence the "hate hate gmail" its just not working for me, its not reliable enough (almost al my friends with a Mac use that and it fails repeatedly E.g it won't let them log in etc.) and since I chose to use my MacBook at school instead of regular paper I need to mail EVERY SINGLE thing I write, my friends often freak out when the gmail server won't let them send or receive mail, whilst .mac works like a charm. Besides iChat is quite handy. In my case I can justify the 99$ and besides I use that account to purchase songs in iTunes.
-Victor
Interesting, I've never had a single problem with gmail since I signed up for it back when beta codes were still rare. I've used it in multiple states from different types of connections and even in multiple countries and I've never lost any email or anything.
In fact, the only "problem" is that DPreview doesn't allow "webmail" which precludes gmail addresses. Although I consider that a DPreview problem and not a gmail one.
Interesting, I've never had a single problem with gmail since I signed up for it back when beta codes were still rare. I've used it in multiple states from different types of connections and even in multiple countries and I've never lost any email or anything.
In fact, the only "problem" is that DPreview doesn't allow "webmail" which precludes gmail addresses. Although I consider that a DPreview problem and not a gmail one.
I don't know why but it happens. My friend was trying to send a very important project and it he couldn't log in (via web mail and he was using the right username and password) and when he used it in Mail.app it popped a window telling some weird server connection failed. Mail.app will have, very rarely though, "fights" with the schools server and in those occasions I use .mac web based service that is almost identical to the app.
-Victor