!(alignright)http://www.sensoryoutput.com/wp-images/postings/dotmac.jpg(Apple’s .Mac Logo)! I renewed my “.Mac”:http://www.mac.com/ account, using “Amazon”:http://www.amazon.com/ to purchase the renewal for $79 instead of Apple’s $99. $99/year is steep for the services they offer, but I use them regularly and look forward to expanded services. I fought myself over whether I would renew or not, but in the end, renewal won out. Hopefully Apple can better justify the cost, or I will just have to make do with a home-brewed solution for the various aspects of .Mac next year.
I really like the iSync services across multiple computers. Tiger will allow more of that and even greater integration with the OS when it is released, so things are looking brighter. Apple did just announce the increase of storage space for users up to 250 MB (up from 100 MB) that can be split between email and disk space at the user’s discretion. I prefer to keep my mail stored locally, so most of that will definitely be hit up for disk space. I often bumped up against that 100 MB limit last year, requiring that I clean out old files more often than time really allows. It should be better now.
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What do you store on your .mac account that you couldn’t easily ftp to your hosting company or even just get access to if you leave a computer on at home that it’s stored on?
I’ve been trying to find something other than easy iCal sharing to justify a .mac subscription, but the low disk space given seems to be a big draw back.
Storing stuff is not the problem. Syncing across multiple Macs is. It sucks that Apple has required the .Mac as a go between in order to take advantage of iSync, but things are as they are.
I like the iPhoto integration, but there are other plugins that offer easy-to-export html albums that I could easily ftp to my hosting as it is.
I guess .Mac is for the lazy. Right now, my .Mac is waiting to be shipped from Amazon, and I have been considering canceling the order. I am teetering on the edge of an inability to justify the cost. Convince me not to and I’ll cancel the order.
