Elegant Technology

Having been a dotMac subscriber in the past I had, like many, allowed it to lapse. Luckily Apple retained my ID so that when I bought my MacBook Air I was able to reopen my dotMac account (I actually got a deal from the Apple Store that reduced the cost of dotMac).

Having said all of that I was never very happy with what dotMac gave me. I liked the email address I got and used the web mail feature from a PC at work. The other features I just didn’t use because of my circumstances (Mac at home – PC at work).

Bookmarks didn’t sync from my Mac to a PC via the web and the calendar from the dotMac home page was a static display.

Now that MobileMe has been introduced and has replaced dotMac my usage is slowly rising (When I get my white iPhone it will really make sense).

Now at my PC, using the beautiful web interface, I am able to manage my contacts, calendar and mail and find that when I get home everything is synced.

Obviously when I update items on my Mac at home these changes show up at the PC. I have even added a photo to my MobileMe gallery and am planning to try-out the iDisk feature.

In future when I am not at my Mac (or PC) I will rely on my iPhone but for now I will have to be content with a beautiful, and now useful, solution to organising my life.

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