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Apple .Mac 5.0 [OLD VERSION]x$38.98
  (54 reviews)
Best Price: $99.95 $38.98
Use .Mac 5.0 to share high-quality photos and movies with friends and family directly from iPhoto and iMovie. There's no easier or more stunning way to show off your pictures and video online. Express yourself by creating a custom website, blog or podcast in minutes and publish it with a single click. Add content from Google Maps and even use your own domain name. .Mac Mail gives you ad-free email that stays with you and stays in sync. Create a group website complete with your own group email address and iDisk folder. .Mac Groups makes keeping the gang together a snap. With .Mac you always have up-to-date information and sync bookmarks, calendars, contacts, etc. across multiple Mac computers. .Mac iDisk lets you store, access, and share large files with drag-and-drop simplicity. Now get 10 times more storage than before. With 10GB of online storage and just a simple click, you can use the Backup 3 software to keep your music, photos and other important documents safe and sound. iDisk - Share and access files from anywhere Backup 3 - Protect your precious memories with a few clicks 10GB Online Storage Extend your iLife. Only with .Mac. With online tools that work seamlessly with iLife and Mac OS X, .Mac makes doing amazing things on the Internet elegantly simple. There's no better way to take your Mac experience to the Internet.  Share photos and movies beautifully--directly from iLife '08. | Web Gallery.
A beautiful way to share photos and movies.
With .Mac and iLife '08, you can share high-quality photos and movies with friends and family directly from iPhoto and iMovie. There's no easier or more stunning way to show off your pictures and video online. Easy photo sharing from iPhoto '08.
Put your photos online with a few clicks. Just select the event you want to share in iPhoto '08, click Web Gallery, and the rest is automatic. iPhone Web Vallery .Mac and iPhoto showcase your photos on a gorgeous web page, neatly organized by album. You can even add password protection to manage who sees your photos. Your photos. In all their glory.
Your friends and family view your photos in a beautiful Web Gallery. They can skim albums to see what's inside, select an album, and choose viewing options such as grid, slideshow, mosaic, or carousel. And with automatic resizing, your photos adjust instantly to fit the browser window. | Visitors to your Web Gallery can download high-resolution copies of their favorite photos, or entire albums in a single Zip file. | Print-quality downloads with a click.
If you choose to allow it, visitors to your Web Gallery can download high-resolution copies of their favorite photos, or entire albums in a single Zip file. Your photos download in large format, suitable for printing at up to 16 by 20 inches. Contributions are welcome.
Yours isn't the only camera at your kid's game. With .Mac Web Gallery, you can get the shots you wish you had by allowing friends to contribute their photos. They can do it right from their browser or via email. And whenever new photos are added, they sync to your iPhoto '08 library. No better way to share movies.
.Mac Web Gallery lets you share movies directly from iMovie '08. Visitors can view them on the web in several sizes, including a large format that is better than DVD quality. And they can download versions of your video optimized for viewing on iPhone, iPod, or a large screen with Apple TV. Great iPhone experience.
.Mac Web Gallery is fully integrated with iPhone, so you can view all your photos and movies from wherever you are, and even post photos right from your iPhone.  Publish a great-looking website or blog from iWeb with a click. | Website Hosting.
Amazing websites. Amazingly Simple.
With iWeb and .Mac, expressing yourself online is easy. You can create a custom website, blog, or podcast in minutes and publish it to .Mac with a single click. And iWeb '08 lets you add content like Google Maps and even use your own domain name. | Simply create your site, click Publish, and it's online. | Put it online with a click.
.Mac is built to work seamlessly with iWeb. You simply create your site, click Publish, and it's online. There are no settings or configurations to remember--.Mac does it all behind the scenes. So all you see is beautiful results. Stunning sites and blogs made easy.
With iWeb, you can create a great-looking website in minutes, or express yourself with your own blog. Simply choose from a wide selection of Apple-designed themes, customize your page with photos and text, and you're done. Or, with one-click theme switching in iWeb '08, you can experiment all you like. Wonderful web widgets.
Using iWeb '08, you can include live content from other sites in your .Mac site. iWeb widgets Select Google Maps, Google AdSense, or Web Gallery widgets right in iWeb '08, or add an HTML snippet from another site, such as YouTube. My name is URL.
By popular demand, .Mac now lets you use your own domain name when you publish from iWeb '08. It's an easy way to give your site or blog the ultimate personal touch.  Stay in touch from anywhere with email that stays in sync. | IMAP Mail
Stay in touch from anywhere.
At home or on the road, you're always connected. .Mac Mail gives you ad-free email that stays with you and stays in sync, no matter where you check your email. On your Mac. On the web. On your iPhone.
.Mac integrates with the Mail application on your Mac, so setup is a snap. On the go?.Mac Mail works seamlessly with iPhone too. Or use .Mac webmail, with features like drag-and-drop filing, attachments, and a message pane. No matter where you are, you'll always feel right at home. IMAP keeps it all in sync.
Unlike most email services, .Mac Mail uses the IMAP protocol, which means that no matter where you check your email, it's always in sync. Let's say you read your mail and delete some messages in webmail. Then when you check Mail back on your Mac, messages you've read are marked as read, deleted files stay deleted, and saved draft messages are right there. Ad-free. All the time.
.Mac Mail is also ad-free. That means that you won't see banner ads in your Mail page, and ads won't be added to your messages. What's more, your messages won't be scanned for advertising purposes. Peace of mind via email.
.Mac Mail automatically scans incoming and outgoing messages for viruses. Images from unknown sources are not loaded unless you allow it. You also get extra privacy measures such as enhanced spam filtering and the ability to create up to five email aliases. And with a 20MB attachment capacity, you have even more flexibility in sending and receiving your mail.  Keep your team, club, or family on the same page. | .Mac Groups.
Keep everyone on the same page.
Do you have a club or team? Create a group website complete with your own group email address and iDisk folder. .Mac Groups makes keeping the gang together a snap. | Keep the group up to speed on important dates with your own group calendar. | Group email keeps everyone in the loop.
Sometimes it's hard to get everyone coordinated. Not anymore. Your .Mac Group has its own email address, making it easy to communicate with the whole gang. Email sent to this address goes to the entire group, and messages are posted automatically on the group page. Shared group calendar.
Keep the group up to speed on important dates with your own group calendar. Members can view the calendar online anytime and even subscribe to automatic iCal updates. A website for your group.
With .Mac Groups, your group has its own great-looking site where members can get updates, see the group calendar, find a link to a Web Gallery album, and more. So whether it's a club, a sports team, or your family, you have a place online that's all your own. Anyone can join.
Group members don't have to be .Mac members--.Mac Groups are open to anyone, Mac and PC users alike. And because .Mac Groups integrates with your Address Book online, sending invitations to new members is a snap. You can also allow the rest of the group to refer new members.  Sync contacts, calendars, and more across multiple Mac computers. | | Keep the group up to speed on important dates with your own group calendar. | Sync.
All your Macs in perfect harmony.
Sync bookmarks, calendars, contacts, and more across multiple Mac computers. With a .Mac membership, you always have the same up-to-date information at your fingertips--and the same great experience on all your Macs. Keep multiple Mac computers in sync.
Find yourself using more than one Mac? .Mac Sync can make them all feel like home, with all your bookmarks, calendars, keychain passwords, contacts, and more. Just tell .Mac what to sync, and it does the rest. Simply integrated.
.Mac Sync is built right into Mac OS X Tiger, which makes setup easy. Click the .Mac Sync preferences and choose the personal information you want to sync. You can set .Mac to sync automatically. Or add the Sync icon to your menu bar and sync manually only when you need to.  Share and access files from anywhere. | iDisk.
Your personal hard disk online.
.Mac iDisk lets you store, access, and share large files with drag-and-drop simplicity. And with ample online storage, even huge files are no problem. Store large files. Access them anywhere.
With .Mac, you get your own online storage space called iDisk, perfect for safeguarding important documents or exchanging large files up to 2GB in size. Say you need to move a big file or folder from your computer at work to your computer at home. You simply drag it to your iDisk and it will be waiting for you when you get home. That's all there is to it. If you have a PC, use a browser to view or add files to your iDisk. Integrated with Mac OS X.
Because iDisk is built into the core of Mac OS X, accessing it on your Mac is as easy as opening a Finder window. Just drag and drop the file you need, and access it from any computer connected to the Internet. Share and share alike.
Your iDisk Public folder makes exchanging files with friends a no-brainer. Drop in the files you want to share, and your friends can access them anywhere. They can even post their own files to your iDisk. If you like, you can also add password protection to limit access to your folder. So you and your friends can share files to your heart's content.  Protect your precious memories with a few clicks. | Backup
Protect your memories with a click.
If it's worth remembering, it's worth protecting. That's why every .Mac membership includes Backup 3 software. With just a click, you can keep your music, photos, and other important documents safe and sound. | .Mac Backup helps you back up important files with regular, preset plans. | Pick a plan and rest easy.
You know you should back up your files. .Mac Backup helps you back up important files with regular, preset plans. Simply choose a plan, choose a schedule, and you're done. You can back up personal settings like passwords and bookmarks, music and movies you've purchased, or your entire home folder. Doing the right thing has never been simpler. Customize your peace of mind.
Want to customize your plan? Double-click it and you can change the schedule, add or delete items to back up, and even change the destination. You can back up to iDisk, CD or DVD, or your external drive. Easy offsite storage with iDisk.
Protect your most important files by backing them up online to iDisk. Your documents will be safe, and you can restore them from iDisk using .Mac Backup. Save time with incremental backups.
With .Mac Backup, each successive backup updates only data that's changed since the last backup, so your backups go quickly. And should you ever need to restore data, the History feature lets you go back to a specific date.  Protect your precious memories with a few clicks. | 10 GB Storage.
Room to share. Room to spare.
Need a little elbow room online? .Mac now gives members 10 times the amount of online storage as before. So you can email, share, exchange, and back up to your heart's content. More room for email, photos, and movies.
With 10GB of combined email and file storage, a .Mac Basic Membership feels anything but "basic." Now every .Mac member has plenty of room for files, email, photos, movies, or whatever. It's the easiest way to spread your wings online. Family-size storage.
If you buy the .Mac Family Pack, it gets even better. Your master account comes with 10GB of email and file storage, and each of your four sub-accounts also gets a generous 2.5GB. Now the whole family has plenty of room to email, share, and back up. If only car trips worked the same way. Storage upgrades. For big appetites.
If that's still not enough to meet your needs, you can purchase an additional 10GB of online storage for a total of 20GB and 200GB of monthly data transfer.
MPN: MA927Z/A - UPC: 718908999653
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Dot-Mac for your Mac life (and iLife)
By A3GQSZ2RVVXDCZ on 2007-09-19
Rather than reiterate all the features of .Mac, I'll just highlight some useful points.
I have been a .Mac member since Apple first introduced it. Apple has been improving and adding features to .Mac all the time. You now get 10 GB of storage (for an individual account) to split between email and data storage, as you see fit.
The version number of the retail .Mac package is almost meaningless. I suspect it is a way for Apple to have an idea of when the package is purchased, as Apple is aware of the first release date of each version and the end-of-life date of each version, as well.
The retail .Mac registration code can be used to either create a new .Mac account or RENEW an existing account. You can save money by buying the retail kit from Amazon or another vendor, rather than purchasing directly from the .Mac website.
According to Apple, the registration number provided with a retail .Mac kit can be used up to nine months from the date of purchase.
The .Mac kit contains a booklet describing the service and how to register. The registration code, to be used at the web site, is located on a sticker attached to the booklet. The kit also contains a couple of Apple logo stickers. That is all. There is no CD or DVD included.
If you are using the .Mac kit to renew an existing account, the renewal takes effect on the expiration date of the account (providing you use the registration code prior to the expiration date.) This way, if you enter the registration code early, you do not lose time on the life of your account.
No longer for everyone
By A6FIAB28IS79 on 2007-11-05
.Mac was originally a free add-on perk that came with the purchase of an Apple computer. I'm not convinced it's worth a hundred, even though I keep succumbing to the easy temptation to renew when Apple reminds me each year. I no longer keep three Apple computers going, one at an office away from home. Consequently, the iDisk feature, the most useful part of the service, has lost its practicality. (Moreover, during prime business hours the company's webmail program was so busy that using iDisk was impossibly slow; I gave up on it and went to a one GB thumb-drive to transfer work between work and home.) The iSync feature is nice, but not worth a hundred with only two computers. It's not that laborious to go into the next room to read a calendar memo or to do e-mail, though keeping bookmarks synchronized is definitely useful. As for the other features, most of them are available free of charge on Yahoo or Google. Back-up would be nice, but 10GB is minuscule if you have 50GB of music files and write for 6 hours a day on the machine. I confess that I don't take and share pictures with family members (they're all PC users) or maintain a website (there are far too many out there), so I'm not exactly sure what the advantages of .mac are compared to, say, similar free services on Yahoo and Google. But it's easy to get pulled into the "Apple life" without carefully assessing and reassessing your needs. In my case, I know I'm not getting a return on my investment. Next year, no renewal.
I have just spent several hours trying to remove 10 GBs worth of files from my iDisc. Problems observed: the creation at one point of 2 iDisks on my desktop (one is bogus--be sure to go for the one with your name on it); laboriously, exasperatingly slow performance (I'm still in the letter C's). I've wasted more hours if not days on this worm-eaten Apple program than any other peripheral product. Get yourself a 60 GB Western Digital drive for sixty bucks, a Toshiba 120 GB or (at the present moment) a 500 GB Seagate--both of the latter for the same price as .Mac. It will reduce stress, not test your patience each time you use it, and above all save you the precious commodity of "time." .Mac on the other hand is space travel at a mule's pace. I may give up soon and just leave the clutter in some cyberspace orbit. At least, I've become more appreciative of the problems NASA is facing with its own spatial junkyard.
I am astounded by the other reviews and wonder: Have the other reviewers even used all the features?
By A2G3DITF3CHSEF on 2007-12-29
I am an apple developer and me and many of my friends have .mac.
None of us have been able to get idisk syncing to work, after a few uses, it glitches up and you need to delete the local idisk and start again. After upgrading to 10.5, this problem is even worse and the local idisk image takes up tons of space on your harddrive because of a glitch. If you were actually using it, you just lost all the local files that didn't upload yet.
None of us can transfer a file larger than 4GB to or from an idisk.
Transferring many small files is glacially slow. I have a 20mbit connection to the internet and it goes at about 56K speed. Each file that is created takes at least a few seconds to finish creating and syncing, so if you try to put thousands of small files... good luck, I have left it syncing sometimes for days and it never finished.
Syncing calendars and contacts works, but if you also sync to another device like an iphone or treo using isync, then it will get glitched up over time and then hope you made backups or you will spend hours deleting duplicate contacts from your address book (this happened to me twice so far since the iphone came out just a few months ago).
Perhaps the other users who reviewed this only use it about 5 minutes a year so they don't run into these problems, but apple knows about them and has not fixed them. This is the reason .mac is not supported by applecare. The only way to get support for .mac is to submit a web form, where they just email you back generic responses with a huge list of things to try to get your stuff to unglitch. I tried them all and none of them worked for me. They amount to resetting everything, so by the time you put everything back you will end up back where you started.
I am a huge apple fan and own 4 macs just in my home, and an iphone. I have to say .mac is the worst product apple has ever made - EVER. The iTV was a bad idea but at least it does what it is supposed to do.
.MAC is a great idea, and, if i worked, I would recommend it highly, except I have had it for about 3 years, and with this latest version, its not any less glitchy. They just added more space to your idisk and started advertising how you can send up large files - but neglect to mention that you will never use up all that space because it will become glitchy long before that.
Buddies of mine all use macs, and I have yet to meet a person that was able to fill the 10GB idisk. Not only is the connection so slow it would take forever to do it, but files get corrupted and you can't delete them, sot hey are stuck on there permanently, and apple refuses to reset your idisk if the permissions on it get corrupted (I have asked them to reset mine, and they don't seem to have a way to do it).
There is something called jungledisk which is cheaper and works far better than idisk, and calendar and contacts syncing can also be done by third party sites cheaper and better (meaning much faster).
idisk is based off of a webdav technology, and I am astounded how apple managed to implement it so badly. Clearly, they have zero experience in web development. Their own web site looks nice but they didn't even have the sense to detect if someone has quicktime on their machine. And this is their homepage. I have never seen any other large companies main page have a huge X in the middle where a component failed to load on 90% of computers out there (PCs). I wonder if they bothered to test the site from a normal windows PC without their stuff pre-installed on it. Many users I know don't know how to install quicktime anyway and the ones that do know wouldn't want to junk up their PC, they already have windows media player so whats the point?
easiest way to share photos and videos
By AZSK8830TQAV3 on 2007-10-19
Buying either new or renewal from Amazon usually saves a few bucks over what the Apple Store charges and is really easy to use.
I have had a .Mac account since it was free and, to be honest, have come close every year to letting it lapse, but the newest versions of iLife apps are so spectacular that I am finding .Mac more useful than ever. The integration between iLife and .Mac make such an easy to use, and professional looking presentation, that it is worth $100 a year for the .Mac account.
Yes, you can find free or less expensive alternatives for photo sharing, video sharing, web site hosting, but none of those will be as easy to use or look so good as using .Mac.
There must an easier and cheaper way to renew .mac account
By A3T1L3FR4M920V on 2007-10-11
There is no difference between version 4.0 and 5.0 since it is just a box and a set of Apple stickers. You actually buying the code inside the box. It would awesome if Amazon or Apple could email you that code (saves shipping and the packaging costs).
- Overpriced but useful
By A30T6XKZEIRAQT on 2007-09-27
Apple should charge between $25 and $50 for .Mac each year. For what you get it's a bit over priced as you can get many services offered in .Mac for free with other companies and with other cheap or free software.
.Mac is more convenient and easy to use but this convenience may not be worth the much higher price tag for many people.
- I love .mac
By A39O4B6IUNYTT8 on 2008-03-15
I'm totally new to the mac as of October 2007, and I'm so glad I switched. I think .mac is so cool and easy that I can't imagine why every mac owner doesn't get it. I manage 5 websites now for myself and friends (e.g. when one has a new baby), AND I HAVE NO WEBSITE DESIGN EXPERIENCE. iWeb '08 + .mac = EASY. And the .mac web galleries are great too.
Yes, I'm aware that most of the services included in .mac are free other places. I have flickr and picasa and youtube, I do all that too. But I think $100/year is worth the simplicity and easy of use for this kind of hosting.
I don't use .mac mail (why be tied to Apple when you can have gmail). I sync my contacts, etc, but since I only have one mac, that isn't really helpful.
Basically, I think that the easy-website creation + .mac web galleries are worth $100 a year. Amazon's price is even better.
Also, I've bought several domain names from godaddy.com, so that I don't have the (somewhat) ugly .mac domain names. Steps:
1. Buy domain from godaddy.com (e.g. www.sallylovesapples.com)
2. Go into godaddy settings (i.e. "My Domains")
3. Click "Fowarding" so that you can forward people to the ugly .mac domain (so that when people type www.sallylovesapples.com they will be forwarded to www.mac.uglydomain.com)
4. Making forwarding "enabled" and copy paste the ugly .mac url
5. Check "Moved Temporarily" (not sure what will happen if you choose "permanently")
6. Click the "masking" tab, and enable it (put check in check box), and write something pretty like "Sally Loves Apples"
7. Click "ok" or whatever
8. About 1-2 hours later, when you go to www.sallylovesapples.com (in your internet browser), users will be redirected to your .mac website, but they will never see the ugly .mac domain!!
Hope that helps. It's super easy. And you can get a domain from godaddy.com for about $7.99 for the first year ($9.99/year thereafter). Just google "godaddy coupon" and you'll find coupon codes.
- Save by buying "indirect"
By A3DX99BRL53HEP on 2007-10-18
I'm hooked on .Mac. Like many others, I think that one can cobble together the features, free, from other sources. But I've used it for years and there's enough value to justify the annual cost. When I buy it from Amazon, I save about 20 bucks over getting it direct from Apple. What I Don't like is that Amazon sends a big box. Inside the box is another box. Inside that box is a lot of paper. One of the papers has a code. All I need is that code to type in to renew. So I save 20 bucks but then feel bad about my negative environmental impact. But we tree huggers are like this. Thanks for the savings.
- Amazon's .Mac
By A22DVMKGQKHYDE on 2007-10-17
Amazon is a great way to save a few bucks on yearly subscriptions to .Mac, Apple's online storage, special features and web hosting service. Purchase from Amazon at a discount, enter the serial number, and Apple automatically recognizes you've already originally or re-subscribed, avoiding Apple's full-priced automatic resubscriptions .Mac (dot Mac) seemlessly syncs with Apple software for backup, web hosting and other purposes. Easily accessible from Macs and PCs (Windows), among its many features are the ability to store and transfer files, lock (password protect) areas or make them fully public. If you own a Mac and iLife, it's a great addition. Apple often posts free software (such as huge amounts of extra sound loops for such apps as GarageBand, backup and other needs.
- A little pricey but worth it
By A18D3OFTRMZ7F9 on 2007-10-19
This product, while a bit expensive, is very much worth the money for the many services it delivers in a seamless way. I can do many things with my .Mac account with just a few clicks that are frankly quite amazing. If you have the money and own a Mac, definitely buy this service.
- Great Deal on Amazon, Convenient Service
By A20MYTL1J6G8D9 on 2007-11-02
The .Mac Service has been criticized by many as being too expensive, and one can certainly get many things that the service offers in various other places on the internet for free. However, the service does justify the cost if you need the one-click convenience of publishing your iPhoto library or blog to the internet, for example. Mac OS Backup software also integrates nicely with .Mac, and the IMAP e-mail feature delivers added convenience. If you have Mac OS 10.5 (Leopard), the service is even more justified, since you can now access your home Mac's screen via any other Mac running Leopard on the internet with the new Back to My Mac feature. However, I would buy the retail package from Amazon because it is a substantial savings over the $99 retail price, and you can renew your membership this way as well. Save some money and buy from Amazon, especially if you are an avid iLife 08 and Leopard user!
- Offsite backup
By A3MVPP6R6THAGX on 2007-11-24
While you can back up to an external hard drive, that won't help you if you have a fire or flood. To be completely secure, you need to have an offsite backup. I've had .Mac for years. I researched the options available now and decided to stay with it (it's especially a good deal if you'll be backing up frequently and/or backing up more than one computer). With .Mac, my computers are backed up offsite as often as I want, automatically, without any effort on my part.
- Mislabled Product
By A7QRUT5O3468L on 2007-12-21
This was found under the search for Apple .Mac Family PacK.
It was not a family pack
It was a disaster, we lost all our stored files, one of our family email accounts. And no one would fix the problem for six weeks.
- Well Worth It so Far
By A1PVIGBZ6WSFUY on 2008-01-08
.Mac is worth the money so far. Though you could get some of the facilities for free elsewhere, it is so well integrated into the apps., it is worth it e.g. the Web Gallery is A1. Buy it here at Amazon - cheaper than on Apple. One silly thing is sending you a big bloody box with a number in it! Should be done electronically.
- dot mac
By A3PHULXAXXW0YC on 2007-10-04
New improved dot Mac accounts. More storage, more tools. But back-up is still painfully sloooooow.
- Can't Live Without My .Mac
By A3T0QBTWA9V43I on 2007-10-06
I've used the .Mac service since it came into existence. Love the great new features and the 10g limit. I use filechute with it and makes it easy to move my large files.
- I'm not sure why I keep doing this...
By A2OM7OGM6VTBC7 on 2007-11-29
I don't really think .Mac is worth as much as it costs, but I've had this email address since it was free and I don't want to change it. I guess the increased amount of online storage will be useful for critical off site backups. At least I can renew for cheaper thanks to Amazon.
- Apple Dot Mac
By AHH4JSVBKPFDB on 2007-12-26
Long time dot Mac user; well satisfied. Usually wait each year for Amazon's lowest price to buy and hold it for my next renewal. This year saved over $37 from Apple's price including tax.
- Best Price...
By A338M9TBSVOD39 on 2008-01-01
.Mac is terrific. Amazon is a great source of Apple products at a lower than Apple price.
- Great for Mac user's! A little pricey
By A3I0B42BE8ABQ5 on 2008-01-02
I have had .Mac for a few years now and if you shop around you can renew for around $60 a year. For me that's cheap for what you get. Even if you don't use iDisk much or even publish a web page. It's there when you want too. But Mail is more then worth the $60. It is even better when you have two Mac's because iSync keeps both computer's sync up. It's Great!
- Best kept secret
By A3MMXPUBWZ7DT2 on 2008-03-28
I've been using .MAC for 4 years. Apple sells it for $99. Amazon is the best deal in town. All you get is a box with a registration key.
The IMAP mail account is worth it for me. Everything else is a bonus.
- I didn't like it
By A1TXVOW0QT9YZ1 on 2008-05-07
I Think dot mac is buggy, slow, small, and way too expensive. And most importantly, when it comes to a web app, It's utterly unreliable. And for that, my friend, It isn't worth even the one star rating. Sorry. And I'm a mac fan and user (Imac AND a Macbook). But this just doesn't work.
- it's better than ever now
By A3816H8FA436OJ on 2007-12-18
I have used .Mac for years as a place to store web sites I'm working on for customers' perusal before I upload for "real". Now that there is 10GB of space, it's better than ever. I also use it as a drop box for large files. Works GREAT! Well worth the money for those tasks AND it syncs with iCal and Address book and bookmarks among my computers.
- Seldom works- Save your money
By A2M3SY5T5B8AJL on 2008-01-12
This program seldom works. You will be frequently locked out of your account for no particular reason. The help option will generate a computer email assuring you that your dot Mac account works, password has been reset and/or everything is fine. When in fact it doesn't work. Your password has not been reset and no one is answering the mail. This program is a horrible waste of money.
- I Love .Mac
By A17809985O2Q7C on 2008-01-15
I've been using .Mac several years now-since I first got it as a gift from my son. Even when it had only 1GB of storage I found it very handy. Now that it has 10GB it's definitely a much better deal. I use Backup several times a week-you can configure many different backup plans & backup to wherever you want. The only problem I had with that, was, one year I did a "Clean ERase & Install" and restored from the Backup program and I did not get all my mail that was previously on my computer back. Since then I switched to gMail which is good. However, you could also back up mail separately & also with your regular backup in case there's a glitch.
I have 2 family websites and it's so easy to publish them with .Mac. Also, syncing is a GREAT feature. If I'm on the road and log into my .Mac account my bookmarks, addresses are right there. Also your calendar is available from any web browser.
I used the iDisk feature when I was working on a video for hubby's birthday. Friends & family added pictures to the iDisk, I downloaded them for the video.
All in all, if you have a Mac I would recommend this program. I only give it 4 stars because uploading at times can drag, but other than that, it's great.
- .Mac: Still developing but a good product
By A25GD9B4KWTK89 on 2008-02-07
I've been on .Mac for four years now. For those that aren't familiar with .Mac, you're basically buying some storage space, some software and an email address. Doesn't sound like much, does it? That's a really stripped down description, because most of the cool stuff you can do with .Mac you do on your Mac. Me, I use .Mac for syncing my preferences, internet favorites, Keychain passwords, mail, and more. I also use it with iWeb, which is a beautiful partnership, they work together seamlessly. Apple recently upgraded the standard .Mac storage from 1 GB to 10 GB, which makes it a somewhat more realistic backup destination. Speaking of backup, .Mac comes with an excellent backup program appropriately named Backup. Yes, we have Time Machine in Leopard, but Backup is every bit as good, better in some cases, but not as pretty interface-wise.
iPhoto, that wonderful program that is part of iLife, now has a feature called Web Gallery. Now this is cool: You publish full resolution photos to Web Gallery and, depending on how you choose to use it, anyone can upload or download photos. This is all stored on your .Mac account. Not revolutionary, but a nice added feature. My only gripe is that I wish it was better integrated with iWeb.
You also get some Jam Packs for GarageBand, which expands your loops library greatly. And a program called iDisk Utility along with another called Mac Slides Publisher, neither of which I use but some may find useful.
My only gripe with .Mac is that, compared to some other programs or features offered by other vendors, it's somewhat pricey for what you get. Yes, it's superior in many ways to Shutterbug or a Google account or whatever, but I'd really like to see more storage space for the price, somewhere in the 100 GB range. That would make it an honest-to-Pete backup solution. And I'd also like to see tighter integration with the iLife apps. And while I'm at it, maybe see .Mac become part of the iLife bundle. But if you're use your iLife programs regularly, you should definitely get .Mac.
- Pricey, but convenient.
By A2WDUJCYDAPWV4 on 2008-02-08
I know it's a bit expensive for email and 10G of online storage, but the way it integrates with Mac OSX, iCal, Address Book, etc. is amazing. The online mail reader is the best out there as well. Love it!
- Great price
By AVPK0BT3H6FWU on 2008-02-09
This product is the same one that Apple sells and it is about 30 dollars cheaper and is a great value.
- .mac
By A11D1NORZPKONB on 2008-02-15
.mac is great. The web page, web photos and videos in my .mac web gallery, and the e-mail. Valuable tool well worth the price. Of course you must have an apple computer, which is the best as far as I am concerned.
- kinda have to have it
By A2HJQDG3KEB133 on 2007-11-10
.mac. You don't want to buy it but you kind of have to have it with Leopard.
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| Product Features |
- Seamlessly extends the Mac experience to the Internet
- Share photos and movies beautifully--directly from iLife '08; Publish a professional-looking website or blog with a click
- Stay in touch from anywhere using ad-free IMAP email; Keep your team, club, or family on the same page
- Sync contacts, bookmarks, and more across multiple Macs
- Share and access large files from anywhere; Protect your precious memories with a few clicks
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