Comments on: Don’t pay for MobileMe – try this free alternative first! http://boardingarea.com/blogs/traveltechtalk/2008/07/15/dont-pay-for-mobileme-try-this-free-alternative-first/ A Travel/Technology weblog Mon, 01 Dec 2008 20:01:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Another Alternative http://boardingarea.com/blogs/traveltechtalk/2008/07/15/dont-pay-for-mobileme-try-this-free-alternative-first/#comment-3803 Another Alternative Fri, 22 Aug 2008 15:18:38 +0000 http://boardingarea.com/blogs/traveltechtalk/2008/07/15/dont-pay-for-mobileme-try-this-free-alternative-first/#comment-3803 i havent tried mail2web, but i use http://iphone.hyperoffice.com, which has worked great for me so far. in addition to synching personal info (mail, contacts, tasks, calendars), they also allow me to share this info, and also access and collaborate on documents. they also position themselves as an <a HREF="http://www.hyperoffice.com" rel="nofollow"> "exchange alternative" </A> i havent tried mail2web, but i use http://iphone.hyperoffice.com, which has worked great for me so far. in addition to synching personal info (mail, contacts, tasks, calendars), they also allow me to share this info, and also access and collaborate on documents. they also position themselves as an “exchange alternative”

]]> By: Robert http://boardingarea.com/blogs/traveltechtalk/2008/07/15/dont-pay-for-mobileme-try-this-free-alternative-first/#comment-3802 Robert Fri, 22 Aug 2008 13:28:19 +0000 http://boardingarea.com/blogs/traveltechtalk/2008/07/15/dont-pay-for-mobileme-try-this-free-alternative-first/#comment-3802 It comes down to one thing for me. Being able to send from my personal email address. I love Apple, but I really deplore their not making this a feature of dotMac or now MM. It comes down to one thing for me. Being able to send from my personal email address. I love Apple, but I really deplore their not making this a feature of dotMac or now MM.

]]> By: scottc http://boardingarea.com/blogs/traveltechtalk/2008/07/15/dont-pay-for-mobileme-try-this-free-alternative-first/#comment-3397 scottc Tue, 15 Jul 2008 23:50:29 +0000 http://boardingarea.com/blogs/traveltechtalk/2008/07/15/dont-pay-for-mobileme-try-this-free-alternative-first/#comment-3397 Very good points - thanks for that! Very good points - thanks for that!

]]> By: tivoboy http://boardingarea.com/blogs/traveltechtalk/2008/07/15/dont-pay-for-mobileme-try-this-free-alternative-first/#comment-3392 tivoboy Tue, 15 Jul 2008 18:33:42 +0000 http://boardingarea.com/blogs/traveltechtalk/2008/07/15/dont-pay-for-mobileme-try-this-free-alternative-first/#comment-3392 Mail2web is a GREAT service, I have been using them for several years. I thought their pricing had gone up though for true “reply to” email address authentication. But, regardless, this is a great exchange (full exchange with OWA as well) mail service for push email needs. But, to add, the MM service offers a GREAT deal more than just the push mail solutions. The MM service also offers, 20GB of online storage with full syncing capabilities between the iphone, pc’s and macs. To included, files, photos, etc. They also have a very nice photo storage, sharing, F&F upload facility and this can be sync’d with iphoto (if you have a mac of course) and allow friends to not only VIEW, DOWNLOAD, RUN SLIDESHOWS but also ADD photos to your online GALLERIES. I think it is very slick. The file sharing is also nice in that it will allow you to share a LINK to a file on your local disk (again, on a mac, iphone or pc) with anyone else simply with an email link for them to download. So, this is really a feature set that would ADD a years functionality of something like SUGARSYNC (another EXCELLENT PRODUCT highlighted here before I think) Of course, HAVING MM, allows a mac user to do so much more – with iWeb the monkey dumb capable website, blog, photo book, photo sharing online automatic website creation tool found again in iPhoto on the mac. Makes things really easy, like pushing up straight from iphoto to a website, with password access to boot so friends far and wide can view your photos, etc. EVEN if they have a mac or an appletv product they can have these photo sites AUTOMATICALLY displayed in their corresponding MAC or ATV product. This is REALLY slick. So, if you compare the functionality of ALL these very useful, easy to use products, and add some extra $$ to the mix the pricing of 99$ (often found at 50-75$ online and APPARENTLY available to iphone 3G users for 69$ for year 1) starts to sound like a pretty nice deal indeed. M2W does the exchange bit and hosting quite nicely and economically, but it doesn’t do any of the additional functionality or offer the storage that MM does. Mail2web is a GREAT service, I have been using them for several years. I thought their pricing had gone up though for true “reply to” email address authentication. But, regardless, this is a great exchange (full exchange with OWA as well) mail service for push email needs.

But, to add, the MM service offers a GREAT deal more than just the push mail solutions. The MM service also offers, 20GB of online storage with full syncing capabilities between the iphone, pc’s and macs. To included, files, photos, etc. They also have a very nice photo storage, sharing, F&F upload facility and this can be sync’d with iphoto (if you have a mac of course) and allow friends to not only VIEW, DOWNLOAD, RUN SLIDESHOWS but also ADD photos to your online GALLERIES. I think it is very slick.

The file sharing is also nice in that it will allow you to share a LINK to a file on your local disk (again, on a mac, iphone or pc) with anyone else simply with an email link for them to download. So, this is really a feature set that would ADD a years functionality of something like SUGARSYNC (another EXCELLENT PRODUCT highlighted here before I think)

Of course, HAVING MM, allows a mac user to do so much more – with iWeb the monkey dumb capable website, blog, photo book, photo sharing online automatic website creation tool found again in iPhoto on the mac. Makes things really easy, like pushing up straight from iphoto to a website, with password access to boot so friends far and wide can view your photos, etc. EVEN if they have a mac or an appletv product they can have these photo sites AUTOMATICALLY displayed in their corresponding MAC or ATV product. This is REALLY slick.

So, if you compare the functionality of ALL these very useful, easy to use products, and add some extra $$ to the mix the pricing of 99$ (often found at 50-75$ online and APPARENTLY available to iphone 3G users for 69$ for year 1) starts to sound like a pretty nice deal indeed.

M2W does the exchange bit and hosting quite nicely and economically, but it doesn’t do any of the additional functionality or offer the storage that MM does.

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