Apple's .Mac service is offering users new features to HomePage and iCards. .Mac users also can download a free version of Symantec's Norton Parent Control software, which helps restrict kids' access to the Internet -- for free. HomePage is the service that lets .Mac users create their own Web pages, while iCards are free digital greeting cards you can send to family, friends and colleagues.
Changes to HomePage include a new file-sharing template called My Downloads that helps you create customized download pages for files you maintain through your iDisk. What's more, a new external HTML template also lets you integrate your own HTML pages on your .Mac home page, produced using applications including Macromedia Contribute and Dreamweaver and Adobe GoLive, complete with HomePage features like counters and feedback buttons. Six new photo album templates have been added, three new movie templates have been added, as well as a new journal template. HomePage Web pages can be edited on Windows XP-equipped PCs, too.
News source: MacCentral
Changes to HomePage include a new file-sharing template called My Downloads that helps you create customized download pages for files you maintain through your iDisk. What's more, a new external HTML template also lets you integrate your own HTML pages on your .Mac home page, produced using applications including Macromedia Contribute and Dreamweaver and Adobe GoLive, complete with HomePage features like counters and feedback buttons. Six new photo album templates have been added, three new movie templates have been added, as well as a new journal template. HomePage Web pages can be edited on Windows XP-equipped PCs, too.
News source: MacCentral
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...a free version... Not the free version... :p
I'll explain why to the Windows users here.
You see, back when OS 9 came out, Apple introduced something called iTools. They included a homepage, email, iCards, KidSafe parental controls, iDisk, and pretty much every .Mac feature except for iSync support and Backup.
And iTools was absolutely, completely, free of charge.
So Apple decides to charge $99 a year for the service, adding NOTHING. People only bought it because they relied on their mac.com email addresses.
God I hate .Mac. I don't see, at all, why it's worth $99 a year.
I also have been doing a lot of venting and criticizing of Microsoft lately, and didn't want to sound too biased against them.
Mipra: .Mac (Pronounced dot-mac) is a web service for Macs, and .Mac is a ripoff. The computers themselves are awesome.
Tapo is making people aware that he considers the service less than value for money, he has every right to say as such. If people simply didn't use / buy things they didn't like then consumer rights would go right out of the window, sometimes people need to voice concerns that other people may not be aware of.
Humm Hotmail is still free
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