Attention all those waiting for .Mac to receive some much-needed attention, your wish (or at least some of your wishes) have been granted. Apple's press event is still wrapping up as I write this, but the mac.com site has already updated with the changes Steve Jobs announced today, along with some tips on how to use a few of iLife '08's new features (as of this writing, however, the iLife site has not updated yet). One of the biggest changes to .Mac is a 10x storage increase for individual accounts from 1GB total for .Mac mail, iDisk and websites to a whopping 10GB. While total monthly bandwidth transfer was previously at 250GB, I haven't seen any details on whether that has increased (though I assume - or at least hope - it has). As a nice bonus, the attachment size limit on inbound/outbound .Mac email messages has doubled from 10MB to 20, bringing it up to par with Gmail and other services.
[Update: Woops, my bad. Previously, .Mac members had 25GB of monthly transfer, which has now been raised to 100GB.]
[Update 2: I just signed into my .Mac account online to see the new storage is already available to me. Since I previously paid for extra storage, I now have 20 GB available to split between Mail and my iDisk. At least one commenter has confirmed this as well, but users might still see this get rolled out slowly until the 14th like Apple originally specified.]
While iLife '08 is shipping today (though no word yet on availability in brick and mortar stores), .Mac storage will be increased for all users by August 14th. Until then, you can enjoy some of the new tips being published on how to leverage the new iLife and .Mac features, such as publishing iWeb sites to your own personal domain and publishing photos from the new iPhoto to the hot new Web Galleries.
You can be sure we're all getting our hands on copies of iLife '08 as soon as possible, and reviews of all the new features will be coming as fast as we can write them.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
8-07-2007 @ 2:39PM
MxSix said...
The Web Galleries feature looks really well done. The Web 2.0 aspect of it is astonishing.
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8-07-2007 @ 3:01PM
Buckeye77 said...
All i care about is having the 10gigs for my iDisk. It's the only thing on .Mac that i actually use.
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8-07-2007 @ 3:19PM
j ashley said...
wow that was quick!
I already have the 10 gigs allocated to my account :)
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8-07-2007 @ 3:21PM
Justin said...
WOOOO!!!! This 10GB upgrade is the best thing to happen since the invention of the Iron Plow! (No Pun Intended) Can't wait till' the 14th! GREAT JOB APPLE!
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8-07-2007 @ 3:22PM
holo said...
"Send to Web Gallery" Is already available on the iPhone. I just tried it, but since I dont have any galleries setup, it doesnt work.
I dont remember seeing that before.. maybe i'm just crazy
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8-07-2007 @ 3:24PM
Quix said...
.mac 2.0. Still too expensive. Still too lame. *sigh*
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8-07-2007 @ 3:51PM
Brandon Werner said...
They have also added server side Junk Mail filtering! Great for iPhones and when your Mac isn't running in Mail.app
Image of to enable it here:
http://www.brandonwerner.com/2007/08/07/mac-now-has-server-side-email-filtering/
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8-07-2007 @ 4:00PM
Randy said...
Why can't they add a fully functioning calendar like Google's GCal to .Mac? That is truly the missing piece that they seem to refuse to want to include. Why is this so hard Apple???
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8-07-2007 @ 4:14PM
The Usher said...
How about giving .mac away, for free, just like every other site that gives away transfer, email, galleries, etc.
Make it only for mac owners, tied to your mac serial number.
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8-07-2007 @ 4:23PM
Robin said...
So what does this mean for the poor saps like me who have been paying for the four gigs already ?
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8-07-2007 @ 4:36PM
topless said...
It's available in retail stores, I'm about to install my copy that was purchased @ the Short Pump store
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8-07-2007 @ 4:47PM
David Chartier said...
I think a lot of folks who call for .Mac to go free miss some of the fundamentals of the service. Yea, you can go out and find one site or another that offers online storage, and another that does webmail, or maybe even a few that do one or more things that .Mac does. The problem is: .Mac is much, much more than the one or two features that matter most to some people. It's effortless information synching that 3rd party developers can tap into, one-click web publishing of videos, pictures, blogs and much, much more.
Just because certain elements of a product aren't useful to someone, doesn't mean the product becomes any less valuable to the rest of its customers. It just means you as an individual might have a bit more to consider when measuring the value of the product for yourself.
I've always agreed that .Mac had a few problems to solve, but overall, I've loved the service ever since signing up in Sept of '03. Yes I understand FTP, registering my own domains and publishing videos manually via HTML or CMS/blogging systems, but there is a tremendous amount of value and convenience that .Mac offers that you simply cannot find elsewhere.
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8-07-2007 @ 4:55PM
J.I. Vicuña said...
I already got the 10GB allocated and sorted. 5GB for mail (That's a LOT!) and 5GB for the iDisk/Hosting. And with a 100GB/mo traffic cap, it hits the sweet spot. Add server-side spam filtering (F***ing finally!) and is worth the $100 again.
Also, the iDisk seems snappier.
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8-07-2007 @ 4:57PM
BJ Nemeth said...
I agree with David. While I can find most of .Mac's features elsewhere for free, you can't beat the ease of use.
As a bonus, in my industry (poker), I'm often remembered for using a Mac, so having MyName@mac.com as an email address is easier for them to remember than @yahoo.com or @gmail.com.
I'm mostly excited about the changes to iWeb, allowing me to branch out my sites to other domain names.
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8-07-2007 @ 6:23PM
Trever said...
Does this mean we'll have to tie up 10GB of local disk now, to keep iDisk cache and snappy? (used to be a 1:1 dmg with the old online size, didn't it?)
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8-07-2007 @ 9:33PM
gbaugher said...
Is anyone else having trouble setting up a web gallery? When I click on either link on the .mac left menu, it takes me to the public web gallery page trying to get me to sign up for .mac.
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