Apple .Mac 5.0 [DISCONTINUED PRODUCT/SERVICE]

Apple .Mac 5.0 [DISCONTINUED PRODUCT/SERVICE]

(56 customer reviews)

Take your Mac experience to the Internet. A .Mac membership gives you access to a collection of powerful online tools that integrate with the applications you use every day. Share photos and movies on an elegant .Mac Web Gallery right from iPhoto '08 and iMovie '08. Publish your own website with a click in iWeb. Stay in touch from anywhere with IMAP email. And manage your digital life with Sync, iDisk, and Backup. .Mac works seamlessly with iLife and Mac OS X to make everything from sharing photos to backing up your data as elegantly simple as everything else on your Mac. There's no easier way to do amazing things online.

Seamlessly extends the Mac experience to the Internet
Share photos and movies beautifully--directly from iLife '08; Publish a professional-looking website or blog with a click
Stay in touch from anywhere using ad-free IMAP email; Keep your team, club, or family on the same page
Sync contacts, bookmarks, and more across multiple Macs
Share and access large files from anywhere; Protect your precious memories with a few clicks

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MA927Z/A

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Product Length:	0.0 inches
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Product Height:	0.0 inches
Package Length:	5.4 inches
Package Width:	5.3 inches
Package Height:	1.0 inches
Package Weight:	0.05 pounds
Average Customer Rating:	based on 56 reviews

System Requirements:

Platform:	Mac / Mac OS X
Media:	DVD-ROM
Item Quantity:	1

Customer Reviews:

Average Customer Review: 4.0

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104 of 112 found the following review helpful:

Dot-Mac for your Mac life (and iLife) Sep 19, 2007
By Jon Kreisler
Rather than reiterate all the features of .Mac, I'll just highlight some useful points.
I have been a .Mac member since Apple first introduced it. Apple has been improving and adding features to .Mac all the time. You now get 10 GB of storage (for an individual account) to split between email and data storage, as you see fit.
The version number of the retail .Mac package is almost meaningless. I suspect it is a way for Apple to have an idea of when the package is purchased, as Apple is aware of the first release date of each version and the end-of-life date of each version, as well.
The retail .Mac registration code can be used to either create a new .Mac account or RENEW an existing account. You can save money by buying the retail kit from Amazon or another vendor, rather than purchasing directly from the .Mac website.
According to Apple, the registration number provided with a retail .Mac kit can be used up to nine months from the date of purchase.
The .Mac kit contains a booklet describing the service and how to register. The registration code, to be used at the web site, is located on a sticker attached to the booklet. The kit also contains a couple of Apple logo stickers. That is all. There is no CD or DVD included.
If you are using the .Mac kit to renew an existing account, the renewal takes effect on the expiration date of the account (providing you use the registration code prior to the expiration date.) This way, if you enter the registration code early, you do not lose time on the life of your account.

16 of 16 found the following review helpful:

easiest way to share photos and videos Oct 19, 2007
By E. T. Belton
Buying either new or renewal from Amazon usually saves a few bucks over what the Apple Store charges and is really easy to use.

I have had a .Mac account since it was free and, to be honest, have come close every year to letting it lapse, but the newest versions of iLife apps are so spectacular that I am finding .Mac more useful than ever. The integration between iLife and .Mac make such an easy to use, and professional looking presentation, that it is worth $100 a year for the .Mac account.

Yes, you can find free or less expensive alternatives for photo sharing, video sharing, web site hosting, but none of those will be as easy to use or look so good as using .Mac.

10 of 10 found the following review helpful:

I love .mac Mar 15, 2008
By FroggyM
I'm totally new to the mac as of October 2007, and I'm so glad I switched. I think .mac is so cool and easy that I can't imagine why every mac owner doesn't get it. I manage 5 websites now for myself and friends (e.g. when one has a new baby), AND I HAVE NO WEBSITE DESIGN EXPERIENCE. iWeb '08 + .mac = EASY. And the .mac web galleries are great too.

Yes, I'm aware that most of the services included in .mac are free other places. I have flickr and picasa and youtube, I do all that too. But I think $100/year is worth the simplicity and easy of use for this kind of hosting.

I don't use .mac mail (why be tied to Apple when you can have gmail). I sync my contacts, etc, but since I only have one mac, that isn't really helpful.

Basically, I think that the easy-website creation + .mac web galleries are worth $100 a year. Amazon's price is even better.

Also, I've bought several domain names from godaddy.com, so that I don't have the (somewhat) ugly .mac domain names. Steps:
1. Buy domain from godaddy.com (e.g. www.sallylovesapples.com)
2. Go into godaddy settings (i.e. "My Domains")
3. Click "Fowarding" so that you can forward people to the ugly .mac domain (so that when people type www.sallylovesapples.com they will be forwarded to www.mac.uglydomain.com)
4. Making forwarding "enabled" and copy paste the ugly .mac url
5. Check "Moved Temporarily" (not sure what will happen if you choose "permanently")
6. Click the "masking" tab, and enable it (put check in check box), and write something pretty like "Sally Loves Apples"
7. Click "ok" or whatever
8. About 1-2 hours later, when you go to www.sallylovesapples.com (in your internet browser), users will be redirected to your .mac website, but they will never see the ugly .mac domain!!

Hope that helps. It's super easy. And you can get a domain from godaddy.com for about $7.99 for the first year ($9.99/year thereafter). Just google "godaddy coupon" and you'll find coupon codes.

15 of 18 found the following review helpful:

There must an easier and cheaper way to renew .mac account Oct 11, 2007
By G. Guevara
There is no difference between version 4.0 and 5.0 since it is just a box and a set of Apple stickers. You actually buying the code inside the box. It would awesome if Amazon or Apple could email you that code (saves shipping and the packaging costs).

9 of 10 found the following review helpful:

Save by buying "indirect" Oct 18, 2007
By Don Lubach "Bicycle Commuter"
I'm hooked on .Mac. Like many others, I think that one can cobble together the features, free, from other sources. But I've used it for years and there's enough value to justify the annual cost. When I buy it from Amazon, I save about 20 bucks over getting it direct from Apple. What I Don't like is that Amazon sends a big box. Inside the box is another box. Inside that box is a lot of paper. One of the papers has a code. All I need is that code to type in to renew. So I save 20 bucks but then feel bad about my negative environmental impact. But we tree huggers are like this. Thanks for the savings.

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