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Rating:  56 reviews
Sales Rank: 1856
Format: Dvd-rom
Platform: Mac Os X
Media: DVD-ROM
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Operating System: Mac OS X
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Dimensions (in): 5.4 x 5.3 x 1.1
MPN: MA361Z/A
Model: MA361Z/A
UPC: 885909095094
EAN: 0885909095094
ASIN: B0007LW230
Release Date: January 18, 2006
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.Mac lets you effortlessly share everything you create - pictures, movies, podcasts, blogs and more - with one-click Web publishing and Photocasting. Seamless integration with iWeb, teh newest member of iLife 06, lets you publish your Websites with one click. Deliver iPhoto 6 albums to your Photocast subscribers automatically, whether they use a Mac or PC. Communicate with friends and family through ad-free email and groups. Back up your photos, music and files withone click to your iDisk or archive to CDs, DVDs, or an external hard drive with powerful backup software. Photocasting lets your friends and family subscribe to your shared iPhoto albums and view your full-resolution photos on their own computers Communicate, coordinate, and stay in sync with your club, team, or organization.Mac Groups includes a group email address and website Mac Mail is ad-free and elegant. Use your account through Mac OS X Mail or through. Mac Mail on the web. Virus protection is built right in Protect your precious memories with this powerful upgrade to. Mac Backup. Scheduled automatic backups are as easy as 1-2-3 . Mac Sync keeps up-to-date information at your fingertips, whether you use multiple Macs or whether you're on the road without your Mac Enjoy separate. Mac accounts, including private email accounts, websites, iDisk, and. Mac Sync. Share files easily through a family iDisk folder
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Simply put, .Mac is your life on the Internet. With the latest version of .Mac you can effortlessly publish your websites, backup your important data, share files with distant friends and colleagues, sync your personal information across all your computers, check your mail wherever you roam, and much, much more. Whether it's for you, your club, or any organization, .Mac provides a vital set of tools that make life online a breeze. 
With iWeb -- part of Apple's iLife '06 software -- and .Mac, you can effortlessly publish your websites and blogs. View larger. | 
.Mac Groups lets you create a website for all your group's most important information. View larger. | 
Publish your photo libraries via a Photocast. Subscribers anywhere in the world will automatically download your latest photos into iPhoto. View larger. | 
Backup 3 is the essential, and very flexible, tool for backing up all your vital data. View larger. | Publishing with iWeb
Seamless integration with iWeb -- the newest member of iLife '06 -- makes it easy to publish your websites with a single click of a button. With iWeb, you can create beautiful pages with Apple-designed templates and then publish them via your .Mac account with a single click -- no configuration is necessary. You can also post blogs and podcasts without the confusion of creating RSS feeds. Or, add stunning online slideshows to your photo albums automatically. And for total control, you can set a password to keep your sites private. iDisk
.Mac iDisk makes it easy to exchange files with friends or centralize your documents so that you can access them anywhere, at any time. iDisk allows you to use storage space on Apple's secure servers and view your stored files and folders on your desktop. If you want to share your files, simply drag files to your Public folder and invite colleagues to download your documents. Plus, iDisk lets you protect your Public folder with a password. You can access your iDisk from a Mac or a PC, and store up to 1GB of data (upgradeable to 4GB). The data transfer rate is upgradeable to 250GB per month. Groups
This is the ticket if you need to communicate, coordinate, and stay in sync with your club, team, or organization. Create a private password-protected website for group images, message boards, announcements, calendars, a member list, and links to other websites of interest. You can even set up a group email alias for efficient communications. Post or view group messages on the group's own private mac.com address that only members can use. Meanwhile, you can publish web pages with group photos, share files in the group's private iDisk folder, or keep track of group meetings, special events, practices and other important dates on a group calendar. Feel free to create as many groups as you like (each requires 30MB from your iDisk allotment). Sync
.Mac Sync keeps up-to-date information at your fingertips, whether you use multiple Macs or whether you're on the road without your Mac. With .Mac Sync you can view and update Address Book contacts and Safari bookmarks instantly. Plus, synchronizing Mail rules, signatures, smart mailboxes, and Keychain passwords in Mac OS X Tiger is a breeze. You can even access contacts, calendars, bookmarks, and email on the Web via any Internet-connected Mac or Windows PC. Photocasting
Let your friends and family subscribe to your shared iPhoto albums and view your full-resolution photos on their own computers. With Photocasting, you can publish your photo albums using .Mac and anyone can subscribe. Subscribers then receive your full quality photos directly within iPhoto 6 or via an RSS reader on a Mac or PC. You can use a subscribed photocast like any iPhoto album in your library; they automatically stay updated so your subscribers always have your latest photos. Backup 3
Protect your precious memories with this powerful upgrade to .Mac Backup. Scheduled automatic backups are as easy as one, two, three. With Backup 3, you can back up your iLife files with a single-click and customize your backup plans in minutes using QuickPicks or a Tiger Spotlight search. Quickly archive your iLife photos, movies, and purchased music in a single step with preset backup plans, or set flexible schedules that automatically update archives for you. You can back up important files to your iDisk (keeping them secure on Apple's servers), a hard drive, iPod, CDs, or DVDs. Backup 3 saves you time by archiving only what you've changed since your last backup. Mail
.Mac Mail is ad-free and elegant. Use your account through Mac OS X Mail or through .Mac Mail on the web. Virus protection is built right in, and you get 1GB of combined email and iDisk storage. You can keep your mac.com email address even if you change Internet providers, while enjoying up to five aliases for fun or to protect against unwanted mail. With .Mac Mail you can access mail from your email program or web browser -- any Internet-connected Mac or PC will do. Fix typos with integrated spell-checker, create text and photo signatures, and set an auto-reply to handle incoming email when you're away. Learning Center
.Mac's integrated Learning Center offers step-by-step tutorials on the applications you use most, including iLife, iWork, Mac OS X, and .Mac. Follow along with QuickTime movies and text-based information that allows you to learn at your own pace and try out new skills on sample files. You can even learn about Apple's professional line of software including Final Cut Pro 5, Soundtrack Pro, Motion 2, DVD Studio Pro 4, Logic Pro 7, Shake 4, Final Cut Express HD, and Logic Express 7. Member Benefits
Exclusive member benefits include free software downloads as well as special product discounts -- all available through Member Central. Go to .Mac Member Central for free downloads of popular Mac software such as GarageBand Jam Pack Loops. Plus, you'll receive special discounts on selected products and free updates to .Mac features. .Mac in Depth
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 Overpriced and Underperforms; Alternatives April 28, 2006
Instant Runoff Voting (Columbus, OH)
145 out of 196 found this review helpful
I wrote a review for the 3.5 version of .Mac here on Amazon discussing alternatives to the service. Many of my complaints are still valid: the service is unacceptably slow and the online feaures are rather weak. Rather than rehash those points, below is a revised chart for how to replace .Mac for free (in most cases):
Webmail/Email: Gmail. You'll gain address autocomplete, cell phone access, among other features. Plus, you can still have offline copies in Mac OS X Mail by using POP access (tip 1: set up a rule in Mac Mail to mark every message as read and use the Gmail online interface, or go POP-only if you prefer the desktop client; tip 2: try the Gmail Notifier program for handier integration of Gmail on your Mac.) Free.
Picture Sharing: Kodak EasyShare Gallery. The free Cocoa Kodak EasyShare program allows you to import photos from your digital camera, edit and organize them, and upload them to web for sharing with family and friends (no need to upgrade iPhoto as part of iLife every year for $70). Online albums can sync automatically with your Mac. Free (buying prints costs extra).
Calendar sharing: iCalX. This service is very easy to set up, and you don't need a special utility to use it with iCal. Also, you can have password-protected private calendars with iCalX unlike with .Mac. Free. (Google Calendar might also be an option for you.)
Sync: Plaxo works very well for address book synchronization (and it works with Thunderbird as well as the Mac OS X Address Book). You might also want to consider Del.icio.us for online bookmarks. Both Free.
Groups: There are many: Yahoo! Groups, Google Groups, Writeboard, Blogger... All Free.
Photocasting/Blogging (iWeb): Both are available easy-to-use and pretty at Blogger. Or, try the new Google Pages service. Both Free. RapidWeaver is a simple program for making websites. Mac OS X has built-in web hosting capability, you could try DynDNS (free) for hosting web pages on your own computer.
Backup (to disk): Silverkeeper by LaCie. Free. (Also see iDisk alternatives below for online backup options.)
iDisk: If you still need online storage you may want to invest in a hosting company that offers sFTP access. I recommend Yummy FTP as a great FTP client for Mac. Or, you can use Transmit by Panic and Automator actions (for Mac OS 10.4) for online file operations (Yummy FTP can also do automated sync). Alternatively, your internet service provider might already inlcude webspace with your account. Finally, Google is rumored to soon offer a Gdrive online file storage service as part of Gmail.
Complete Mac Utilities Suite - Well, Almost July 7, 2006
Juan Ortuno (Hialeah, FL)
29 out of 32 found this review helpful
The .Mac services are a great intruduction to anyone in the Mac world. DotMac offers free online training and lessons to subscribers, this is especially useful to new users of the platform.
As far as the utilities, I'll say that they're great and could still be better. I use Apple's Mail as my main email and it works flawlessly both web based and through Mail. It synchronizes all my mail and I can see the same messages anywhere, unlike POP3.
iWeb hosting lets you publish your own websites to Apple's servers, and with 1GB of storage, you have plenty of space for all your family pictures, blogs, music and more.
iDisk is also a very useful tool; and I use it constantly as well. I can copy documents to my iDisk and view them from any computer, whether Mac or not.
My only complaint is address book synchronization. Sometimes I add, edit or delete a contact on my Mac, and it will take a while before I can see the changes online; even after manually synchronizing .Mac.
Backup is also a great tool offered with .Mac, and you can easily back up your stuff to Apple's servers. The Backup wizard is very easy to follow and self explanatory. If you're a regular user, Backup is a great tool because it does it all on its own; all you do is run the wizard to configure it.
Overall, the .Mac service is a great idea and it's easy to use. There are other alternatives to the services offered by .Mac, but the most important facts to consider are integration to the OS and its ease of use.
 Easy, Stylish and Fun March 7, 2006
Bruce Aguilar (Hollywood, CA)
20 out of 27 found this review helpful
This software package gives you an account with .Mac for one year at a lower price than you can get through Apple. You'll get an @mac.com email address, 1GB of storage space on Apple's servers (upgradeable to 4GB with an extra fee) and a few other services. Those services are:
Webmail - Access to your mail from any computer with internet access.
Homepage - An insanely easy to use program for posting your own webpages. You can even password protect them if you so choose.
iWeb Integration - Easy one click publishing of the web pages you create with Apples new iWeb application. (web address will be web.mac.com/user name, where user name is name you choose for your .Mac account)
iDisk - Your personal storage disk on the internet. Perfect for sharing files and archiving.
Groups - Communicate, coordinate and stay in touch with your group of friends, team or organization with a customized website, calendar and message board.
Backup 3 - A very easy to use program for backig up your important files to iDisk, CD, DVD and/or external drives.
Support - Online support in the form of Quick Time movies that demonstrate how to use your .Mac account and other Apple products.
Photocasting - Like podcasting but with pictures. Allows subscribers to stay up-to-date with any changes you make to your album.
Info Sharing - Access your Address Book and Bookmarks from any computer connected to the internet. You can even post your iCal calendars to the web to share with others.
This is the perfect solution for people (like me) who don't want to be bothered with finding (and learning how to use) multiple other companies software to preform these same tasks. It's also good to know that someone's watching your back. Apple does this by continually updating the support pages as well as offering many free programs, demos and discounts through iDisk. For me though, the best feature (besides email) is the iWeb integration. It allows me to easily keep family and friends up to date with my life. I post a blog and movies as well as photos from special occations. And speaking of email it's terrific. It's best feaute is the ability to create aliases (up to five of them) so you can have a different email address for shopping, groups and message boards. If ever an alias is getting too much spam, just temporarliy turn it off.
For keeping family up to date, sharing files, backing up important files and enjoying a feature rich email account you could hardly do better than a .Mac account.
Good services... except website hosting. February 20, 2006
Richard Johnson (Manchester, NH)
12 out of 17 found this review helpful
I've been a mac lover for years, and while the website creation, uploading, backup software, email, iDisk, and support services are all top-notch and Very easy to use... my one squall would be the URL of the website they give you for hosting. It is a very long URL, and can be confusing for some people. Such length is horrible if you want to remember it and give it to a friend to write down so they can check out your site. If you are not using .Mac 4.0 for your own website hosting, you cannot beat the deal. However, if you are planning on having your own website as the primary reason for buying .Mac, you would be far better off with GeoCities or some other hosting. For other tips on Mac products (I have been a professional Mac user for 4 years) please email me at topaz3in6@mac.com
 CAVEAT EMPTOR April 14, 2006
KG (NYC)
11 out of 20 found this review helpful
In theory this is a great service, HOWEVER - if you're seeking this for syncing, then be prepared for unreliability and quite simply lack of functionality. Many, many people have experienced problems syncing for weeks now. For me personally this feature simply does not work. I have 3 Macs and tried every suggestion out there. If you don't believe me, go to the .Mac forums and see how this is affecting people. Apple is doing little to resolve this; in fact the latest OSX update only made these problems worse. The status officially still claims to be "online and operational"; VERY misleading!
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