Comments on: Poor boy Apple Dot Mac alternatives

By: Scott Tenant

Scott Tenant — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 21:14:10 +0000

I’m using http://www.ical-mac.com to publish my iCal calendars online.
It works great and it’s free.
If you want you can even decide who can view your published calendars.

By: Tim

Tim — Tue, 06 May 2008 02:39:46 +0000

“Of course, electing to go the RapidWeaver route does require that you seek actual web hosting which can be arranged for as little as $7.95 per month.”

You realize $7.95 per month is basically the same cost as .mac broken down into monthly payments? ($99 / 12 = $8.25 per month) Plus you are getting all the other features of .mac. There is way more value in Apple’s service than they are charging.

By: Henrik Christiansen

Henrik Christiansen — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 14:35:15 +0000

Ken: good tip, except that most people have DSL connections which means that they have a rather slow outgoing connection.
In other words, when people try to download your site, a picture hosted on your server or something like that, it will take quite some time (at least if the file is big).

This also requires the computer to be on at all times unless you want your site to be accessible at certain times.
Other than that, it’s a good tip, even though it will be enough to forward port 80.

By: ken

ken — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 14:14:14 +0000

Hosting: you all have macs.

Go SysPrefs/Sharing and check Personal Web Sharing.
Go to http://www.dyndns.com and open an account.
Go SysPrefs/Network and configure IPv4 Manually.

Put your website in:
Hard Disk/Library/Webserver/Documents/

If you have a router:
Put the static IP of your computer in DMZ.

Your computer is now on the wibbly-wobbly-web.

By: Easily share an iCal calendar without .Mac at bioneural.net

Easily share an iCal calendar without .Mac at bioneural.net — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 14:05:32 +0000

[...] very technical (as here), or Google-centric (as here). In his recap of alternative options, Derek mentions a potential iDisk replacement called Box. Box offer unofficial WebDAV support; WebDAV is the same [...]

By: cong

cong — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 04:49:04 +0000

The biggest reason you sign up for dot mac is accessiblity and usability.
Example, I work 2 jobs, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. I do not have much time at all. for pretty much about anything.
So here comes dot mac to the rescue, I can create anything w/ iweb, beautifully, and easily and quickly post anything i want on the web, professionally, w/ a few clicks. There you have it, dot mac saves my tons of times !

By: Derek

Derek — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 08:23:33 +0000

There is nothing wrong with me saying off-topic. Disapproval would be me deleting a comment.

By: Amy Frank

Amy Frank — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 08:05:36 +0000

Thank you for the link.
Agreed, off topic of original article but passwords were mentioned in comments. I read entire article and comments and felt it not entirely inappropriate to ask .

By providing the link you are helping me…but by mentioning the off topic comment you are letting me and others know of your disapproval. My husband talks like that. If you want to help, why not just help? Why even write…”off topic, but”?

By: Derek

Derek — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 15:57:08 +0000

A little off topic from the Dot Mac content but yes, 1Password to answer your question.

By: Amy Frank

Amy Frank — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 15:34:25 +0000

Any programs for mac that are similar to Roboform?