Dot mac account alternatives

Now that you have a hackingtosh running with leopard, another thing to add is the functionality of the dot mac account. As you might already know, .mac is quite expensive. In the EU it's 99 euro's a year while in the USA it's only 99 dollars a year. 99 Dollars is only 62 Euro's, so as usual apple want more profits from us poor Europeans.

However there are quite a few alternatives for all the extra's that .mac gives you. Some of them quite a bit better than the paid equivaltent from apple.

Here we go :

• Storing photo's with .mac = Use flickr it's free.
  
• iDisk = Adrive.com will give you 50 gigabytes of free storage, that's a lot better than apple's 10!
  
• Mac mail = googlemail, will save all your mail all the time for free
  
• Back to my mac = back to my mac through ichat and free
  
• Sync = Sync data without mac and free of course
  
• iCal online = Google calendar free and a bit better too
  
• .mac homepage = this is ussually a part of your providers internet package
  

Of course the above will not give you the .mac intergration and some of the features require a bit more work. On the other hand you also get substancially more online storage with adrive and all for free remember.