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MobileMe should be free.
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It should be free because Microsoft makes a competitor that's free.
For anyone interested in synchronizing two or more computers, check out Live Mesh. It's free, runs on OS X And Windows, and can sync folders. I use Gmail for my mail and pay for real web hosting which I also use to publish my calendars to.
the only thing I'm missing from this is a way to keep my contacts sync'd.
For anyone interested in synchronizing two or more computers, check out Live Mesh. It's free, runs on OS X And Windows, and can sync folders. I use Gmail for my mail and pay for real web hosting which I also use to publish my calendars to.
the only thing I'm missing from this is a way to keep my contacts sync'd.
Curious to know if the Microsoft service has something like "Back to my Mac" and the iDisk with 20GB of storage?
Yes the 20GB storage certainly seems to make the package far more attractive than Hotmail...
From a business standpoint, MobileMe is great. It's huge profit. From a customer standpoint, I think at first the price might be daunting but in the end, I do believe it's worth it.
Not to mention, it's not too hard to get them to give you the "w/ a mac" price of $69.99, without buying a mac.
Not to mention, it's not too hard to get them to give you the "w/ a mac" price of $69.99, without buying a mac.
Yes. You can Connect to any Desktop in the Mesh. It only has 5GB of storage.
For a single company, yes.
However, you can get many of the pieces in MM from multiple places in the web. In particular, at least one site offers 2GB free online storage, with no limitations on the types or numbers of files, as well as no size limitation (well, the limit, if one exists, might be 5GB). You can also get free push email/contacts/calendar from more than one place. You may have to use more than one site to get all of these, though, and there may or may not be severe limitations (e.g., no import/export of contacts, etc., etc.).
Is there actually a free alternative that let's you synch addressbook and ical between an imac, macbook and ipod touch where you can make amendments on either device which gets automatically synched with all the other devices. And something that let's you sync files between a macbook and imac?
ok say you don't care about gallery, idisk or mail. All i want to do is sync calender and contacts between computers and to use the native ical and address book apps, i'm not to fond of webapps. Is mobileme the best alternative or is something like busysync more useful in this respect.
whats the advantage of using FTP to upload/download stuff from idisk?
Is it because you're using windows?
For the Mac it's because of Finder.
When I first heard that I didn't believe that using an app like Fetch or Transmit would make a difference. It does thankfully, not a huge one, but I notice a speed increase when uploading.
I don't use Windows...
I use an FTP client because it is much more reliable than Finder for larger files. Queue things better, more control.
Can see an upload speed too...
I would not pay $5/year (let alone $70 or $99) for a syncing service when there are so many free alternatives. MobileMe is worth the price (to me) because it is a suite of useful features. I don't think I would pay for any single MM feature alone, but as a collective it's entirely worth my money.
Aaaah. I see. Yeah, I have yet to not run into some trouble when uploading a large file from home.
I upload huge files flawlessly from the computers at my college campus, though... Idk why. But again, they have Mac Pros and super duper awesome internet speeds (T-something).