I just received my .Mac renewal notification from Apple. Since I don't consider .Mac value-for-money at £70 per annum I shall not be renewing, and have already found a WebDAV-based workaround for iCal sharing and a direct iPhoto-to-web solution. Independent software developers are obviously responding to a disgruntled .Mac user base, as options for achieving similar functionality without a .Mac account are on the increase.
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Google maps have gone mobile, meaning anyone with a data-capable mobile phone is now bereft of excuses for not finding their way home from the pub. If don't have a bling phone with excesses of screen real estate, your old phone should do just fine if your pair it with your Palm (.prc here) or Pocket PC (.cab here) and Google's PDA software. It's like "GPS Lite" for those who already know where they are!
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MacDevCenter have published a great article entitled Making a Smooth Move from .Mac to Google. Intend to ditch .Mac? The article covers forwarding to Gmail, importing your Address Book (not an issue if using Gmail via POP), iCal to Google Calendar (synch is sadly one way), Google Notifier, using gDisk for online file storage, .Mac Groups to Google Groups, iWeb to Blogger, iPhoto to Picasa, and Google Browser Sync for synchronizing Firefox bookmarks, etc.
Subscribe to a Google Calendar using iCal: Google has released a web calendar that supports the iCal format... you can use iCal to subscribe to any shared Google Calendar... Google Calendar doesn't support Safari.
A world map on a pin-board. Your old passports. A diary. There are various ways of keeping track of the places we've been but it's not so much the where as the when that tends to escape me. I've been comparing options for recording both the where and the when of our travels.
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I'll not pretend this is ethical, or even entertaining. Morbidly fascinating? Perhaps. Maybe, in a fleeting moment of desire to resolve some of the world's problems, you've considered the value of deadly force (and are prepared to accept a little collateral damage). Maybe you're paranoid about the [insert name of intelligence agency] sending a cruise missile your way, homing in on your position by triangulating the signal from your mobile phone? Feeling a little aggrieved about your neighbours? Maybe you're just tired of feeling cold and damp (but remember to stand well back). This is the tool for you...
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