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Mac OS X Leopard - ARCAism

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.<strong>Mac</strong><br />

.<strong>Mac</strong> (pronounced “dot <strong>Mac</strong>”) is an online service provided by Apple that not only<br />

provides basic features such as e-mail, file sharing, and web site hosting but also<br />

provides a link between many <strong>OS</strong> X applications and computers. At the cost of $99 a year, you<br />

have to ask yourself, is this worth it?<br />

That’s a question you’ll have to answer yourself, but first you need to understand more<br />

about what .<strong>Mac</strong> offers. After all, if all you want is an e-mail address (which .<strong>Mac</strong> offers quite<br />

nicely), Google, Yahoo, and others will give you one for free; however, if you are looking for a<br />

complete integrated service that provides added utility to your system and applications, then<br />

.<strong>Mac</strong> may be just what you need.<br />

In this chapter, we’ll outline how to set up .<strong>Mac</strong> and then outline just a few of the features<br />

of .<strong>Mac</strong>, including the following:<br />

• E-mail<br />

• Web hosting<br />

• iDisk<br />

• System syncing<br />

• The Back to My <strong>Mac</strong> feature<br />

• Application integration<br />

Setting up .<strong>Mac</strong><br />

CHAPTER<br />

15<br />

To set up a .<strong>Mac</strong> account, go to www.mac.com, and select either the Free Trial or Join Now option<br />

from the .<strong>Mac</strong> home page. This will take you to the sign-up page where you will be asked to<br />

enter some personal information and select your .<strong>Mac</strong> username and password. Although you<br />

can change your password at any time in the future, you are stuck with your username forever,<br />

so choose carefully. At this point, if you are joining .<strong>Mac</strong>, you will be prompted for billing information;<br />

otherwise, if you are just getting a trial account, you are all set.<br />

One of the first things you’ll want to do once you have set up a .<strong>Mac</strong> account is to enter<br />

your .<strong>Mac</strong> username in the Accounts panel of System Preferences. This will allow you to take<br />

advantage of all the features of .<strong>Mac</strong> from your computer.<br />

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