Rod the whiners are right, .mac is shit, but not so shit that I can be arsed
to change my email for dozens of accounts. Apple the company that came
out with the iMac (the easy way to get on the internet, remember those ads),
has awful internet services. I've got my fingers crossed that the rumours of
Google taking over .mac are true.
Kemper_Boyd wrote:Rod the whiners are right, .mac is shit, but not so shit that I can be arsed
to change my email for dozens of accounts.
Whether it's shit or not is relative to you needs and expectations, I guess. Personally I don't have the time/inclination to shop around comparing internet services and dotmac does exactly what I need from it - reliable email, file hosting and synchronising files across a couple of Macs. Dotmac fits into my workflow nicely and I just get bored of seeing it getting slammed all the time.
Yes I am intending to change my name to iRod by deed poll.
Kemper_Boyd wrote:Rod the whiners are right, .mac is shit, but not so shit that I can be arsed
to change my email for dozens of accounts.
Whether it's shit or not is relative to you needs and expectations, I guess. Personally I don't have the time/inclination to shop around comparing internet services and dotmac does exactly what I need from it - reliable email, file hosting and synchronising files across a couple of Macs. Dotmac fits into my workflow nicely and I just get bored of seeing it getting slammed all the time.
Yes I am intending to change my name to iRod by deed poll.
Also, as I've mentioned recently, .macs spam filters are ridiculously good. With my Pipex account I used to get 50+ spam emails a day. On my .mac email account: not one in over two years.
Syncing is the one feature that gets some respect I'll give you that.
It's reputation for stingy storage and bandwidth, ropey email servers,
awful native WebDAV, and bottom of the barrel backup are deserved.
Years ago when it was free it was okay, but they sure as hell haven't
done much to improve the product and now we are paying for it.
I expect better from Apple.
Also .Mac is not free. I'm suspicious of any free e-mail service as how long will it remain so, or how long before it becomes advertiser supported/is bought by MS and becomes Vista only. Ditto file and image hosting - no ads, spaces for other people to comment, links to the owning company (unless I add them).
flookster wrote:Didn't Apple commit to Blu-Ray a couple of years ago? How come we haven't seen a drive in a mac yet?
I think we're waiting for Leopard, i.e. OS X 10.5, which has been delayed, hence the wait. I think it will support Blu-Ray via the built in software (DVD player) and iLife/iDVD, and Blu-Ray will become a BTO option.
I like .mac, I think it's a great service. The webmail interface is brilliant and the syncing between Macs (and sharing for PCs) is a must for my needs and I can't see how they could make it much easier or convenient. I think people need to rethink what their gripes with .mac are. All of my .mac gripes, and there are some considerable ones, are due to Finder and its abysmal integration with any network service.
FileChute makes sending files easy. Just drag a file and drop it on FileChute. FileChute puts the file on your .Mac account and generates a web link for retrieving the file all in one step. Next drag the generated link into your email and you're set to go. And since what you're sending is just a link, your recipients can retrieve the file from a Mac, a PC or any other platform.
Rod_S wrote:It's an essential if you have a dotmac account.
Almost, yeah. One problem I've had with Filechute is that I can't get it to work with my idisk's Public folder. It just plain refuses to let me change it from my Sites folder which I don't want it to use.
I'm pretty okay with .mac even though most of the functions it offer I use either publically available free alternatives or equivalents I've stored on my own servers.
What I do find really useful is cross machine syncing, having the same set of Safari favourites, email accounts and rules, passwords, diary and calendar is great. Having any changes made on one of my machine automagically sync via .mac to all of the others is the killer app for me.
Is there a free service that does this? I don't think there's even a paying one for PC is there?
That filechute looks good though, especially since it seems to work with any webdav server
mutantcamel wrote:Yeah the website is groovy, but if I wasn't on my second iPod in four months, and they hadn't fucked up their "estimate" of when I bought the damn thing then I would have bit more respect for Apple.
Are you sure it's a genuine Apple iPod? You're in China, so maybe you accidentally bought an unlicensed Appul IProd?
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That would be an Appre Iplod.
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