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You remember back in the day when everything on the Internet was free (circa 1994-1998)? My local library offered free internet and email access through telnet – it was glorious. Ah, Web 0.9.23.6 Beta.

 

These days we’ve got the so-called Web 2.0 which is supposed to relive those days with tons of more free stuff, along with gradients sprinkled everywhere and HUGE buttons thrown in.

 

So, in my eternal quest for free stuff, I ran across this "hack" for OS X and immediately fell in love. You can now use box.net (very Web 2.0) just like you use .mac… except box.net gives you a gig of space for free and more space if you invite friends to sign up (with a link like the one I just used... although this post isn't about me getting invitations). All you have to do is sign up, set up a DAV on your Mac, give it your login name (for the secure connection) and you're ready to go. UneasySilence has some screenshots.

 

You can access all your files online, share them with friends, and there’s even a Windows based client for cross-OS sharing. I signed up yesterday and have been very impressed so far... and the price is certainly right. :)

 

Gotta love free stuff. Especially when it’s storage space!

 

Edit: If you're going to sign up, use one of the invitation links further down in the thread so that others (that need it) can get upgraded to 5 GB. Feel free to post your own code once signed up.


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but it ain't like .mac ? is it ? can I sync my address book using this ?

 

can I also share my addressbook with others ?

 

You can sync your address book with this, but it isn't easy like .Mac is. It just takes physically moving those address book cards to a folder and then importing them onto the other Mac.

 

Also, you can share your address book with other box users by making it a public folder. Again, it isn't as easy as .Mac, but it's a workable solution.

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Thank you all for the great link and the invites. I cant beleve that they give you a whole GB of storage! Useful and great... thanks again!

 

 

bwhsh8r

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Gmail has 2.7 gb and it always goes up and in windows there is a gmail drive creator program. If you need the program or a gmail invite pm me ;)

 

 

 

max

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This link : http://www.drijf.net/dototto/wwwmac.html, and this link : http://www.tnpi.biz/computing/mac/tips/idisk/, as we all know explaining about how to customize own .mac using own webserver. Question is can we apply this to :

1. box.net or gmx.net or other free storage ?

2. webhosting, I mean I'm hosting a web at a site full of script capabilities, can I use those space to make it work like .mac ?

 

Thanks

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ernando... no you can not. If you look over the needed changes it requires making changes to the apache config directly. no host is going to let you do that.

 

it's more for an "in house backup" sorta thing.

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