xtraa Posted May 21, 2006 Share Posted May 21, 2006 Hi, I am just sitting here and playing with the thought of getting me a .mac account. They say it is about 99 bucks p.a. and if I understood it right, there is no way to simply order just an email account for 15$€, you have to be a full member, right? So the thought of a short email adress with .mac and less spam plus 2 gigs sounds nice, although I am ok with my gmail acc. The iDisk and shared bookmark features also sounds good, but is it really woth th 9 $€ per month? Do you use it? An if so, would you recommend it? Thanks in advance for your opinions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xtraa Posted May 21, 2006 Author Share Posted May 21, 2006 Ok thanks, it does not seem to be like that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shimms Posted May 21, 2006 Share Posted May 21, 2006 You can get a trial and see if you like it. I found being able to photocast from iPhoto easily was very cool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B612 Posted May 21, 2006 Share Posted May 21, 2006 Ok thanks, it does not seem to be like that. I have tried it for 60 days (afterwards it expired). It's useful, but I wouldn't spend 9 $ per month for something like that. It's comfortable to be able to synchronize your computer from time to time, especially having a hackintosh, but about the rest, you can do everything with gmail, for free Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ouch Posted May 21, 2006 Share Posted May 21, 2006 If you join the trial and it expires your .mac id still seems to work for sign on to the apple forums and ichat etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacSpaces Posted May 22, 2006 Share Posted May 22, 2006 i have a family pack if you want paypal me 30 bucks and you have a sub account with idisk and all the utilitys .mac have to offer way cheaoer then waht i paid for i have 4 sub accounts so if anybody is interested let me know.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xtraa Posted May 22, 2006 Author Share Posted May 22, 2006 Hey, thanks a lot for your infos I think I will give it a try then with a trial account to check how useful it is. Would be a nice option, if the .mac mail-addy will still work after the 60days. Also photocasting seems to be nice although flickr is not that system integrated like iphoto. thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ouch Posted May 22, 2006 Share Posted May 22, 2006 The mail address won't work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John the Geek Posted May 23, 2006 Share Posted May 23, 2006 I have several Macs and the .Mac sync more than pays for it. I sync my address book, bookmarks, Yojimbo passwords and serial numbers, all across 3 or 4 Macs. My stuff is always on the machine I want it to be on... with no effort. =) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Metrogirl Posted May 23, 2006 Share Posted May 23, 2006 I probably wouldn't have paid up for .mac if my company hadn't funded it (I persuaded them it was important for my work) - but now I have it, I'm hooked. I love the fact that it invisibly syncs everything across all my machines and also the ability to create and destroy the four 'extra' email addresses for short-term use. The storage is good too; I keep my specific customisation files and essential utilities on the iDisk so I can mess around with any of the machines, even temporary builds, without hunting CDs and so on. I don't even need to worry if an email was received last week on another machine when this one is offline, it will have synced up when it was online and the email is there. For me, it's definitely worth it now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ozzie123 Posted May 23, 2006 Share Posted May 23, 2006 Couldn't this be done using a BSD based box? I think I read it somewhere that you could make a "virtual" .mac from a BSD box. The email of course won't work, but the sync and all the bell will work (although it does seem buggy) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ampTK Posted May 23, 2006 Share Posted May 23, 2006 You can get it for $75 at the (US) apple online store if you buy a mac. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
v-linkz Posted May 25, 2006 Share Posted May 25, 2006 Couldn't this be done using a BSD based box? I think I read it somewhere that you could make a "virtual" .mac from a BSD box. The email of course won't work, but the sync and all the bell will work (although it does seem buggy) I bookmarked this a while ago, though I have never tried it. http://www.tnpi.biz/computing/mac/tips/idisk/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swad Posted May 25, 2006 Share Posted May 25, 2006 An easy free version of .mac for file storage: http://forum.osx86project.org/index.php?sh...=0entry119494 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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