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Apple boosted .Mac's offerings today by increasing standard storage space tenfold and adding a new feature, personal Web addresses. more

[swartzfeger]

I'm guessing there's no .php support, which pretty much kills .Mac for me. Nice upgrade though.

[omahajim]

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In a blog posting to the .Mac Web site, .Mac administrators note that all .Mac users will have the additional storage available within a week, so expect that this is a rolling upgrade program that wont happen instantly.

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As soon as the event was over, I logged in to .mac and my 10GB was there. So some upgrades are coming immediately.

[PeteVG]

"Another new feature of .Mac is the ability to use a personal Web address. A new Personal Domain button now appears in users .Mac settings windows, and enables you to forward a registered Web site domain directly to a Web site hosted on .Mac."
What the heck does that mean? I've already got my own domain with unlimited email php and all the goodies. I was hoping iWeb was going to make it easy to publish to MY domain.

[hautster]

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"Another new feature of .Mac is the ability to use a personal Web address. A new Personal Domain button now appears in users .Mac settings windows, and enables you to forward a registered Web site domain directly to a Web site hosted on .Mac."
What the heck does that mean? I've already got my own domain with unlimited email php and all the goodies. I was hoping iWeb was going to make it easy to publish to MY domain.

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If Apple does indeed to this, I might be inclined to get .Mac. Until then, no dice.

[schoonerman]

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this now enables users to create .Mac Web sites using top-level domain names

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I don't think that's the best possible wording. Let's see--I'll take .com, thank you very much.

[mmcgann11]

I dunno what the issue is with this. How hard can it be for iWeb to use standard FTP? Or at least generate a folder of HTML pages and an images folder?
If some other company (say, Microsoft) put out a Web development program with this kind of limitation, Steve Jobs would likely be calling them a bunch of idiots. /forums/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif

[iron_chef]

ummm, you can export any iweb into any folder or FTP of your choice.
It has been the case since the first version. It's CSS and xhtml compliant too.

[fribhey]

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In a blog posting to the .Mac Web site, .Mac administrators note that all .Mac users will have the additional storage available within a week, so expect that this is a rolling upgrade program that wont happen instantly.

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As soon as the event was over, I logged in to .mac and my 10GB was there. So some upgrades are coming immediately.

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are you sure about that? are you sure you didn't see "Data Transfer/month: 10 GB" and assume that was the new storage? according to the .mac page it says that the new storage will increase on the 14th

[OM_user]

There's definitely some confusion around this. When I open up the .Mac preference pane on my Mac, which has my .Mac credentials in it, it tells me I have a total of 984 MBs of space when I select the iDisk tab, so it appears it's there already for me.
However, I can't recall for the life of me how to reallocate that space between iDisk and mail. I would love to give a good chunk of that space to my .Mac mail, since I don't need all of that extra for iDisk.

[hautster]

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ummm, you can export any iweb into any folder or FTP of your choice.
It has been the case since the first version. It's CSS and xhtml compliant too.

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ummm, I am totally aware of that and do that now. However it can be a pain to publish to a folder and update it often.

[OM_user]

Ooh, I'm seeing something I don't think was there before. In the General section of the .Mac mail preferences there's an option to turn on Junk mail filtering. Is this new, or has it been there all along and I never noticed it?? And no, I don't mean with the Mail.app program itself, I mean in the webmail portion.

[looper]

I currently have a couple of domain names registered; one is for a conventionally hosted website (www.altfuels.org), while the other forwards to a private (password-protected) family subdirectory of that site. I haven't had a .Mac address since iTools stopped being free back in th' day; awhile ago I asked one of the Genii at my local Apple Store about password protection of .Mac webpages, and he said that you can (or could, at the time) only protect the whole site at one go (I think) -- in particular, he said that I could not do what I am currently doing, namely protecting one subset of my website with a .htaccess file while leaving the rest open to the world.
So, two questions for any early adopters of iLife '08: does the new .Mac arrangement allow you to forward different domain names to different parts of the website? Or can you only set, e.g., www.altfuels.org to forward to the "root" address of http://homepage.mac.com/altfuels/ ? And, regardless, can you now password-protect only part of a .Mac website, leaving the rest open?

[greydog]

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There's definitely some confusion around this. When I open up the .Mac preference pane on my Mac, which has my .Mac credentials in it, it tells me I have a total of 984 MBs of space when I select the iDisk tab, so it appears it's there already for me.
However, I can't recall for the life of me how to reallocate that space between iDisk and mail. I would love to give a good chunk of that space to my .Mac mail, since I don't need all of that extra for iDisk.

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If you go into the Members section of .Mac in your account, and click on "Storage" preferences, you can reallocate your disk space between Mail and iDisk there.