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Apple surpasses the competition for customer satisfaction. For us loyal Mac users, that may not be news but if you’re on the fence about switching from a Windows system, this article might help you decide.
Find out more here… (courtesy of PCMag.com)
I just saw Aardman Animations’ new Wallace and Gromit feature film and it was fantastic! The movie debuted at #1 over the weekend, so it was bittersweet news to hear of the warehouse fire that destroyed Aardman Animations’ entire history of models, props, sets, awards, and original storyboards.
Find out more here… (courtesy of CNN)
It was a difficult decision but I finally decided not to renew my .Mac account.
I started the account when Apple rolled out its iTools site a few years back, kept it when it became .Mac (and paid the “bargain” price of $49 per year) and continued to blindly pay the annual fee.
But an article on Subtraction reinforced all that I had been thinking about regarding the .Mac service. Sure the combined offerings are nice, especially iSync and the Backup software, but I found I never really used much of any of it. I have my own back up scheme that I’m happy using, about half a dozen emails of which I use two at most, and iDisk; that to be honest, I pretty much forgot I had.
Integration with iPhoto was nice and I used it for the annual holiday photo album but I’ve moved on to Flickr and with its wonderful Flickr iPhoto plug-in available, I can export directly to my Flickr album. Also, the ability to build your own web site, though okay, pales in comparison to the many open-source blogging tools (I currently use WordPress myself), blogging services and automated systems like RapidWeaver (which integrates nicely with all of Apple’s iLife offerings).
Now with that $99 dollars I’ll be saving, maybe I’ll purchase RapidWeaver (because sometimes you don’t want to “roll your own”), a bargin at $34.95, and get a $24.95 annual subscription to Flickr and still have $39 left. Now that’s a bargain I can live with!
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