Comments on: More .Mac grumbles: value, missing features

By: Danny

Danny — Mon, 01 Jan 2007 16:32:22 +0000

I just renewed my .Mac account for $55 including shipping, using a serial number from a .Mac box sold by a third party. I found it via Froogle. Works for purchases and activating trial accounts too, perfectly legit. Apple says:

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=302032

More:
http://homepage.mac.com/cherrypop/iblog/C1900478167/E20060925071526/index.html

By: Agent4

Agent4 — Fri, 15 Dec 2006 06:27:00 +0000

I gotta say that I love my iDisk. I send work home and back through it all the time. But that 1 gig does seem awfully tiny, especially when used with Backup.app.
I’m still waiting for them to bring back full webCal posting. The nerfed iCal publish is pretty lame. Just to be able to add events to your online iCal would be worth a chunk of that subscription? (30boxes style)
Personally I’d love to see more done with the iWeb hosting. They’re already web hosting, why not give members a complimentary domain name?

By: Hawk Wings » Blog Archive » AppleScript to report .Mac spam

Hawk Wings » Blog Archive » AppleScript to report .Mac spam — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 00:44:32 +0000

[...] Over the past few months, a number of people have noticed a sharp increase in spam in their .Mac accounts and have wondered why a premium service like .Mac doesn’t include server-side spam filtering. [...]

By: JP

JP — Mon, 19 Jun 2006 01:13:53 +0000

My biggest gripe by far about .Mac is the webmail interface. Not even the fact that it isn’t all Ajaxy, Web 2.0. Simple things that it doesn’t deal with well are a constant thorn in my side. When I get mail from anyone who uses the email at my school (web interface or Outlook), it comes across as LastName, FirstName . This is fine except that when I try to reply, I get an error that LastName is not a valid email address. “No kidding!” I say. I have filed support for it at least twice to no avail. The failure of Apple to fix simple, glaring bugs like this is what makes me cringe that I pay $100/yr for the service.

By: Mark

Mark — Sun, 18 Jun 2006 23:28:39 +0000

I wish Apple would distribute their servers more evenly across the world – using iDisk from Australia seems very slow, and the syncing of addressbook/ical data doesn’t seem to be very reliable – often it takes a couple of attempts before a full sync is successfully done.

By: Jeff Flowers

Jeff Flowers — Sun, 18 Jun 2006 20:35:49 +0000

I used to have a .mac account but I let it go when it expired. I felt it was too expensive.

Today, I use the newly released Google Firefox Browser Sync plugin, which allows me to synchronize my bookmarks om both my home and work computers. I use Gmail for email and contacts, and that is backed up using POP3 and Fetchmail.

By: Don Perreault

Don Perreault — Sun, 18 Jun 2006 18:53:24 +0000

I forgot that if I do not renew my .MAc membership I won’t be able to use iChat, damn, Apple.

By: Don Perreault

Don Perreault — Sun, 18 Jun 2006 16:55:33 +0000

I believe that Apple needs to reduce the yearly fee or offer some new features to make it worth the yearly fee (don’t ask me what those new features are). It can be a real problem not renewing your .Mac account if you have been using your .Mac email address as your primary address. I recently decided to start using my gMail email address as my primary email address in case I decide not to renew my .Mac subscription.

By: Jamie Dwyer

Jamie Dwyer — Sun, 18 Jun 2006 14:49:19 +0000

I’ve been tempted not to renew .Mac every year (I’ve had it 3 years in May), but I love the sync feature, and I do use my iDisk regularly. I’ve had email through mail.com ’s forwarding feature for the last probably 10 years, and I am finally going to cancel that, because I get more spam from them than anyone. So, at this juncture, I have to decide to use gmail or mac .com. For at least the next year, I’m going to try .Mac, hoping that I am going to get some storage space for my $100 / year.

By: Mike Peter Reed

Mike Peter Reed — Sun, 18 Jun 2006 13:53:49 +0000

If Apple integrate traffic tracking tools into .Mac/IWeb I’ll stay with it when it comes up for renewal. With something like box.net giving 1GB free WebDAV storage, and syncing services with things like Plaxo, Bloglines, and GCal, .Mac is looking less and less appealing (I don’t want free GarageBand loops, how about some exclusive iWeb templates instead) compared to a standard co-lo. I do like the “set-it-and-forget” factor though, and it would be an effort to switch from .Mac.
I’m a very lazy professional consumer :-/