[NTLK] OT: MobileMe

[DWDMGUY]

Thank you very much for the clear correction. I did not know this and  
am really happy about it.
Thank you again.
Best,
Tom


On Feb 20, 2010, at 2:36 PM, Ryan wrote:

> Hi:
>
> Actually, what I referred to is not 5 Email addresses, but 5 Email  
> ALIAS addresses.  These latter are included in the $99 per year.
>
> To add Email aliases, go into Mail>Preferences>Aliases and set them  
> up there.  If you look at my Email address here, it is not my real  
> one.  The one I am using is an alias of my real one.  In this case,  
> my alias is: newtontalk at me.com.  I just switched over from Yahoo...
>
> Thank you,
>
> Ryan
>
>
> On Saturday, February 20, 2010, at 10:24AM, "DWDMGUY" <dwdmguy at optonline.net 
> > wrote:
>> Having five email accounts is not for the single use of $99 per year
>> but the family use of $150 per year.
>> Still worth every penny but just to be clear.......
>>
>>
>> On Feb 20, 2010, at 12:52 PM, Ryan wrote:
>>
>>> Hi:
>>>
>>> Just wondering if there are any other MobileMe users out there?  I
>>> got finished setting everything up over the past week, and am pretty
>>> happy.  However, there are some tricks and things to implement to
>>> really make it all work well.  For starters, uploading files to
>>> iDisk via the Finder is really slow, and I don't use the iDisk sync
>>> because I don't want to be syncing from MobileMe>my computer.  I
>>> just want to sync a couple of folders from my computer>MobileMe.
>>> The way some people do it is to sync their iDisk to their computer,
>>> and just use those files/folders instead of using the standard OS X
>>> file system.
>>>
>>> At any rate, dragging and dropping files to iDisk via the Finder is
>>> painfully slow.  So is having an automated file copy to iDisk via an
>>> Automator script.
>>>
>>> So I authored a better Automator script for MobileMe: it automates
>>> the copy of just a select few folders over to iDisk via Transmit.
>>> Transmit is so much faster than the Finder for uploading files to
>>> iDisk, and you can select just the files and folders you want to
>>> sync.  I set it up as an iCal plugin, so it runs every week.  I can
>>> change the frequency in iCal.  It only copies over those files that
>>> have been modified within the last 2 weeks.  This means that it will
>>> not copy over all of the files every time the script runs.  It is
>>> working pretty well.  No need for an external hard drive now.
>>> Although for movies and other larger files, the external hard drive
>>> is still not obsolete.
>>>
>>> Another great feature of MobileMe is the ability to use Email
>>> aliases.  You can have up to 5.  That means you can hide your real
>>> address when, for example, you want to sign up for some service or
>>> online account.  All mail comes into your main MobileMe inbox.  No
>>> need to use other junker addresses from Yahoo, etc.  When you start
>>> getting too much spam, just delete the alias and the mail stops
>>> coming in.
>>>
>>> Thank you,
>>>
>>> Ryan
>>>
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