.Mac updates coming tomorrow morning?
Yes, the most recent rumor about Apple's announcement tomorrow has been debunked by commenters and other sites, but this one stems from a scheduled maintenance message Apple has posted on their oft-debated .Mac service page (tip of the hat to reader Jake Coventry). Quoth Apple's message at www.mac.com:Due to scheduled maintenance, .Mac members might be intermittently unable to access some .Mac services from 10 AM to 12 PM PDT on 08/07/2007. We apologize for any inconvenience.
While this doesn't necessarily guarantee .Mac will be getting any kind of upgrade or new features, it is a bit uncharacteristic for the service to tell its users about such a major downtime before it happens. On top of that, this outage is happening during the day of a big announcement that Apple clearly stated was going to be all about the Mac. Here's hoping for the best.
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When I turned on my Mac this morning it said that synching would change more than 5% of my ical entries. As it turns out it changed (although not in a way I understand) 44 entries.
August 07 2007 at 6:18 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyIf you look at this video from D5:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=OhDL48ulKyw
Steve mentions "backend internet services," possibly hinting at a .Mac refresh, or even a total overhaul.
I can't figure out why i bought .Mac to begin with. email accounts ending in .Mac should be free with your computer and then you should be able to spend some cash if you want to upgrade your account.
August 06 2007 at 8:31 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyI still use .mac and find it indispensable for a home-business I have created. I wish it would add filemaker database hosting, I think that is a no brainer and would greatly improve the utility of it as a solution. Really FMP and dot mac, together with ilife and desktop apps could create an incredible web publishing platform. I would really like to see that sort of evolution.
August 06 2007 at 8:20 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply.MAC should go the way of e-world. In fact, e-world was much better. .MAC is an under performing Apple service, unless, of course you want to sync, your Safari bookmarks. Yippee!
August 06 2007 at 7:32 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Replywell it'd be hard for Apple to make .Mac any worse, but one can dream... (I should probably backup my old homepage.mac content tonight huh?)
August 06 2007 at 6:20 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyEli -
Jesus... give it a rest dude. Everyone makes mistakes. David's entitled to some as well. Do all of your comments have to be invectives against him?
I haven't used .mac since they announced it wasn't free anymore. I miss it. But I'm not going back until it's free, or at least until they have "scaling" service levels, such as "free", "extended" and "pro".
Basically it's the sync stuff that I can't live without. Syncing iCal and Address Book across multiple computers (I have 3 plus iPhone) seems like, in this day and age, should be a standard and free service. I love iCal but I can't really use it unless the info is synced across all my machines.
Sync with Google Cal would be swell too!
"It's the .Mac-only Dashboard widgets!" LOL! I nearly spit out my water. I harped about those things a while back but forgot about them since then.
Personally, I'm not that excited for new iMacs because I'm happy as a camper with the current models. For me, software announcements would be much more interesting - iLife '07/08 and .Mac FTW!
It's the .mac only dashboard widgets!
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