I’m a sucker for Google’s products, I’ll admit to that. So far I think the only product I don’t use (anymore) is Blogger, and that’s just because – in my view – WordPress is in a league of it’s own when it comes to free blog-software.
Anyway, I’m also kind of a sucker for all things Apple. Yes, they could be friendlier on the environment, yes they could be more open in their communication, yes their customer service leaves much to be desired, etc.
But their products are just so damn cool!
So why am I talking about Google and Apple? Well, after installing gDisk on my MacBook I’ve decided not to renew my .mac membership next time around. It’s just not worth it.
gDisk is freeware. All it really does is allow you to create folders in your empty gmail space (none of us are really USING 3 gigs, are we?) and upload to these folders from your mac just as you would with iDisk. You can then access these folders and download your files from any other computer with gDisk on it.
SpanningSync takes care of syncronising my iCal and gCal and now iDisk provides me with the one thing I really found useful in .mac – the online storage space (The other features are pretty much covered by Flickr and WordPress). With gDisk I even get three times (and counting) the space compared to the standard one gig .mac subscription.
€99 a year saved. Bye bye iDisk.
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Nice idea, but the application simply doesn’t work.
I agree, and I’ll admit that I may have been over-enthused when I wrote the post (back in april last year), but I really did think I’d get a lot of use out of the app