As much as we all wish it was still possible to download iWeb, it’s not. In April 2014 we released Sparkle 1.0, years later we’re still pushing harder than ever on new features and improvements across the board. macOS Catalina will no longer launch 32 bit apps, including iWeb. June 2012 saw the demise of MobileMe, the preferred iWeb site destination. Then again, since Vista seems to be a copy of OSX, I suppose they are watching in Redmond as they rolled out Windows Live.With the release of iLife 2011, iWeb was discontinued and users were looking for a replacement. You can`t even use your paid Hotmail on a Mac without a software download. It is a pity the owners of Hotmail don`t follow this example. It is designed to work well with Macs, however they have done a good job making it work well with Windows platform giving you access to your files and your mail when you are out and about. It usually takes a few days to get a response back from their email support team. You can get limited Dot Mac support through the Apple Care call centers, however they usually direct you to send email. Most importantly, put more muscle into the support. For example, Google Analytics tracking features, the ability to update the blogs from a browser (not just your computer and your iWeb application), and give better stats on who is looking at the site.Ħ. Incorporate some Web 2.0 tools into the iWeb and website hosting side of the Dot Mac service. That would get more folks on your service.ĥ. Let people send and receive from POP3 accounts (not just receive from an account and reply via a Dot Mac mail address). Microsoft has a good tool called Power Toys for Windows XP that we use a lot.Ĥ. There doesn’t seem to be any way to edit picture sizes so items sent to the gallery cannot be reduced to smaller sizes. It would still be a little more pricey than the Hotmail or Yahoo services, but worth the difference.ģ. Should probably be somewhere closer to $50 USD annually. The annual membership fee seems a bit expensive. May need to solidify the servers a bit more.Ģ. We noticed some blips in the service in connecting with the mail over the 3 week test period. Overall, it is a good service and we would like to recommend the following changesġ. There are a lot of things we can talk about regarding the Apple Dot Mac service. There isn’t much on Apple`s website about using your own domain names. If you want to make a good looking site you probably want to use the new version of iWeb (2008) as it better supports using your own domain names and it cost effective. You can make a really good looking website with iWeb, their web editor application. People want to put their websites on their own domains (for example) so Apple added the feature to use your own domain name when making a website. You now have the ability to make your own web page. Dot Mac has an online gallery, which is great for sharing family pictures simply from your iPhoto application. They increased the account sizes to 10 GB… finally. It is clear that Apple listens to its users. It seemed to slow things down a bit so I changed my settings to an hourly sync. It was a bit of a nuisance having my main machine constantly updating to Dot Mac. The G5 has the exact mail, bookmarks and information on my Mac Book. I have an iMac in my living room that has all the exact settings of my G5 in my home office. This is a great feature if you have multiple machines. You can set your main Mac to sync all of your mail, browser bookmarks, other mail accounts, mail filters. The synchronizing of your mail is just the beginning. The mail application is good, but where you start to see the beauty of Dot Mac is all the integrated services. Apple uses the IMAP (email protocol that requires a connection to the server) that is nothing new but they`ve done a good job of maximizing it and getting away of the very common POP3 setup (downloading the email messages to your PC via Outlook, Thunderbird or some other email client from the server). You can start an email on your Mac Book on the train, work on it at the office at lunch via the very well done webmail interface, then finish it off at home on your G5 Desktop. If you are more than a one Mac family, the cool thing about Dot Mac is that the email syncs on all your computers. We unleashed one of our spammed email addresses on it and it seems to take out 99 out of 100 spam messages. However, the filtering for junk (“spam”) mail and viruses is pretty effective. It is a bit a on the pricey side if you are looking for email by itself ($99 USD or 9,800 yen in Japan). Well, if you are a home user and need a good email account then dot mac may be a pretty good solution for you. Well, if you have an Apple computer there`s no doubt you’ve had a strong push from Apple to sign up for their. With everyone and their uncle providing email addresses with some other type of service it is hard to tell the good from the bad.
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