5thirtyone.com — Whether or not you can make do without the annual subscription service offered by Apple depends wholly on your willingness to nit-pick through the alternatives. The following article will break-down available solutions based on the specific “conveniences” you wish to retain while saving a little money in the long run.
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kottkrigDec 26, 2006Submitter
The iDisk substitute, box.net, is a godsend. Fantastic tip that i hadn't heard of before.
Closed AccountDec 27, 2006
Good info! Thanks
mooferDec 27, 2006
maybe it's not such a great alternative?
michaelchylesDec 27, 2006
Excellent writeup..awesome reference..box.net is truly the perfect substitute for the idisk storage. It runs great, useablility is awesome and the widget for your own web page is great..i am a graphic designer and it is so easy to just lay it on the page and share files to clients. great writeup!
lucas911Dec 27, 2006
There are some good work-arounds for photocasting but nothing is as easy/fast as photocasting through .mac. I hope that some day it'll be like iCal where you can choose to publish in your own server. iLife07 maybe?
trashcatDec 27, 2006
I wish they'd stop the weird naming systems. dot-something should either a hidden file or is a top level domain, I get confused if everything's not consistent. ;)
bmsonDec 27, 2006
@MagnusPeople are willing to pay for products, that are easy to use.99% of people don't want to know anything about computers.They just want it to work. They use IE (or safari) because it's there..Mac works just fine, yes it costs. But people is willing to pay for something that is yeas and just simply works.If you are a software developer, your should think about that. Less is more and you could put a bigger price tag on a product that is "less advanced" but have great user interface.
porfitronDec 28, 2006
I love articles like this, since I'm always on a quest to find things opensource/free. I'd like to add that for "photosharing", Picasaweb, from Google, is very Mac-friendly. They give quite a bit of free space, and with their plugin, allow you to upload your albums directly from iPhoto... all for free: <a class="user" href="http://picasa.google.com/web/mac_tools.html">http://picasa.google.com/web/mac_tools.html</a>
knight17Dec 28, 2006
There are many applications on the PC side also for creating simple sites without knowledge of HTML or other markup languages.One such software is Toweb 1.5 I have used it is simple to make pages with different themes.You can find more about it here : - <a class="user" href="http://alieneyes.wordpress.com/2006/12/28/creating-websites-without-any-html-knowledge/">http://alieneyes.wordpress.com/2006/12/28/creating-websites-without-any-html-knowledge/</a>But there are more software, but this is the only one that has a different interface, everything except this looks like dreamweaver.