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.Mac Mail Account Worth $99?
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<blockquote data-quote="djames42" data-source="post: 352051" data-attributes="member: 13241"><p>This looks pretty nifty if all of your machines can talk directly to each other. From the little information I was able to gleam from their site however, it would appear this would not allow my Mini (which is at the office on an internal IP address inside of a firewall) to talk to my MacBook Pro (which does occasionally get plugged in to the same network, but generally lives on a NATed IP address behind my firewall here at home). </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>If you like using iWeb for building your sites and blogs, having a .mac account for seamless publishing is quite handy. Yeah I could export the site and then sftp the lot to my hosting company, but not all of the features would come across.</p><p></p><p>I also use my iDisk for backing up information between my machines (not just the .mac sync services, although I do use that too, but I have .mac Backup back up a few of my folders at the office to my iDisk which I can then access on the road from my cached iDisk drive on my MacBook Pro).</p><p></p><p>Is it worth $99? I think that's up to you... 95% of what .mac does can be found for a lot cheaper. However, I find the remaining 5% to be worth the extra cost...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="djames42, post: 352051, member: 13241"] This looks pretty nifty if all of your machines can talk directly to each other. From the little information I was able to gleam from their site however, it would appear this would not allow my Mini (which is at the office on an internal IP address inside of a firewall) to talk to my MacBook Pro (which does occasionally get plugged in to the same network, but generally lives on a NATed IP address behind my firewall here at home). If you like using iWeb for building your sites and blogs, having a .mac account for seamless publishing is quite handy. Yeah I could export the site and then sftp the lot to my hosting company, but not all of the features would come across. I also use my iDisk for backing up information between my machines (not just the .mac sync services, although I do use that too, but I have .mac Backup back up a few of my folders at the office to my iDisk which I can then access on the road from my cached iDisk drive on my MacBook Pro). Is it worth $99? I think that's up to you... 95% of what .mac does can be found for a lot cheaper. However, I find the remaining 5% to be worth the extra cost... [/QUOTE]
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