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Randman · Sep 20, 2005, 01:23 AM

Dotmac is down. Anyone know if this is regularly scheduled service, or could it be the upgrade that's been rumoured for some time now?

Railroader · Sep 20, 2005, 01:29 AM

Yet another reason to go with a different service that's cheaper, has more features, and far superior for uptime.

E's Lil Theorem · Sep 20, 2005, 01:49 AM

We need a sticky image for "is .Mac down?" threads

budster101 · Sep 20, 2005, 01:51 AM

I just noticed that. I like my .mac account so if they are upgrading it, I think that's just fine with me.
It's not like they did it during the day.

Severed Hand of Skywalker · Sep 20, 2005, 01:57 AM

Reason #106 I am not renewing this year.

budster101 · Sep 20, 2005, 01:58 AM

When has it been down except for upgrades?

Kenneth · Sep 20, 2005, 01:59 AM

Good call. My membership expires on Oct. 1st.

Severed Hand of Skywalker · Sep 20, 2005, 02:02 AM

Originally Posted by budster101

When has it been down except for upgrades?

You're kidding right?

Salty · Sep 20, 2005, 02:12 AM

Again, only way I'll ever buy .mac is if they actually begin offering something that's remotely worth what you pay. Be that by dropping the price or buy increasing the features. I was talking to a friend, and if .mac was 30 bucks I'd probably buy it, as would she. Actually if it was 30 bucks a year I bet they'd have 10 times the subscribers.

budster101 · Sep 20, 2005, 02:15 AM

.mac is great for those who want to integrate their iApps and other e-mail accounts into one easy location to check. Most users are going to like the .mac as it is.

- e-mail
- learning center
- templates

That alone makes it worth while for many.

- bookmarks
- calendar
- addressbook

syncing is nice too.

budster101 · Sep 20, 2005, 02:23 AM

.mac is up now.

The first thing I've noticed was the 250mb of storage shared between the iDisk and email is now 1GB.
Not a bad upgrade.

What are the attached file limits now? Are they over 10mb per message?

Anything else?

Kenneth · Sep 20, 2005, 02:23 AM

Backup v3.0 and 1GB total storage as standard.

For those of you upgraded to 1GB storage, you have 2GB total storage now.

Severed Hand of Skywalker · Sep 20, 2005, 02:29 AM

Originally Posted by Kenneth

Backup v3.0

It stinks next to Roxio's Deja vu. Even v3 doesn't improve much at all.

Randman · Sep 20, 2005, 03:22 AM

Dotmac groups is a nice touch. And the extra space works for me, 25GB/month of data transfer.

I get dotmac half price (won a couple of memberships in a lucky draw) so it's even more reasonable.

JHromadka · Sep 20, 2005, 03:24 AM

Originally Posted by budster101

.mac is up now.

The first thing I've noticed was the 250mb of storage shared between the iDisk and email is now 1GB.
Not a bad upgrade.

You have to logon to your account on .mac to enable that extra space:

Current Storage
Total Storage: 1024 MB
Email Storage: 2 MB of 15 MB in use
iDisk Storage: 87 MB of 235 MB in use
Groups Storage: 0 MB in use

After
15 MB Email / 1009 MB iDisk

Kenneth · Sep 20, 2005, 03:25 AM

Did I see php support on the flash animation?

http://www.apple.com/dotmac/

budster101 · Sep 20, 2005, 03:32 AM

I mean what is the maximum file size for an attachement. Is it still 10mb?

I'd like to see more on that end.

Randman · Sep 20, 2005, 03:42 AM

Still 10MB attachments. But then again, any larger and you can place an item on your iDisk public folder and let the person download it from there (XP users can download the free Windows iDisk Utility to access iDisks).

ajprice · Sep 20, 2005, 03:58 AM

Originally Posted by Kenneth

Did I see php support on the flash animation?

http://www.apple.com/dotmac/

Yes you did, but maybe the designer had a few too many when he did that one!!??!!!11

.mac Support PHP Search

PurpleGiant · Sep 20, 2005, 04:13 AM

Originally Posted by Kenneth

Did I see php support on the flash animation?

http://www.apple.com/dotmac/

Interesting. I wonder how comprehensive the php support is.

ism · Sep 20, 2005, 04:35 AM

I don't think there is PHP support:

homepage.mac.com/heywood_si/test/phpinfo.php
homepage.mac.com/heywood_si/test/helloworld.php

JoshuaZ · Sep 20, 2005, 04:43 AM

Now all we need is mysql support

JLL · Sep 20, 2005, 05:05 AM

Originally Posted by Kenneth

Did I see php support on the flash animation?

http://www.apple.com/dotmac/

You saw php, but you also saw .org, .edu and other things that has nothing to do with .Mac.

ShotgunEd · Sep 20, 2005, 07:16 AM

What happenned to the dot mac exclusive dashboard widgets? No reference to them on the site anywhere.

budster101 · Sep 20, 2005, 08:09 AM

THAT'S IT! No more dot mac for me... no widgets.

rickey939 · Sep 20, 2005, 08:33 AM

Originally Posted by ShotgunEd

What happenned to the dot mac exclusive dashboard widgets? No reference to them on the site anywhere.

Haha that's hilarious...Apple definitely screwed up by promising those damn things.

Mrjinglesusa · Sep 20, 2005, 09:07 AM

I updated my storage 30 minutes ago and it still shows the old storage settings. Can't use Groups until they update...

rickey939 · Sep 20, 2005, 09:10 AM

Originally Posted by Mrjinglesusa

I updated my storage 30 minutes ago and it still shows the old storage settings. Can't use Groups until they update...

Mine updated instantly.

Mrjinglesusa · Sep 20, 2005, 09:15 AM

How did you do it? Did you login using the website and go to "Accounts" and update there?

Nevermind - it worked that time...

Peabo · Sep 20, 2005, 09:16 AM

why is mine only at 512mb?

msuper69 · Sep 20, 2005, 09:35 AM

Originally Posted by z0ne81

why is mine only at 512mb?

It's initially split 50/50 between email and iDisk.

OogaBooga · Sep 20, 2005, 10:53 AM

Doh! I posted this topic in the Mac OS forum, and it got locked.

I suck at MacNN.

tooki · Sep 20, 2005, 10:57 AM

This is a stupid topic. Do we need a thread every freaking time it goes down?!?

tooki