{"id":41,"date":"2006-12-12T22:53:36","date_gmt":"2006-12-13T04:53:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/geekmuse.dreamhosters.com\/wp\/?p=41"},"modified":"2006-12-13T13:48:48","modified_gmt":"2006-12-13T19:48:48","slug":"notmac-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geekmuse.dreamhosters.com\/wp\/?p=41","title":{"rendered":"notMac Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.notmacchallenge.com\/\">http:\/\/www.notmacchallenge.com\/<\/a> :<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Since Apple decided to start charging for dotMac, I&#8217;ve spent $495 to keep some useful files remotely accessible on my iDisk and sync my bookmarks, address book and calendar between computers. While I find these features incredibly useful and convenient, I have no need for any of dotMac&#8217;s web-based services, and as a result, I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve been getting a good value from Apple. I know that workarounds exist that allow one to take advantage of dotMac&#8217;s services without a dotMac account, but they require a level of technical proficiency that I just don&#8217;t have. I&#8217;ve no doubt there are a lot of people like me.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I wish them the best of luck, however, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.notmacchallenge.com\/rules.php\">requirements <\/a>are a bit weird. Mainly, it appears that this is to work in conjunction with .Mac, not replace it, which is a far easier and more laudable goal, IMO.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From http:\/\/www.notmacchallenge.com\/ : Since Apple decided to start charging for dotMac, I&#8217;ve spent $495 to keep some useful files remotely accessible on my iDisk and sync my bookmarks, address book and calendar between computers. While I find these features incredibly useful and convenient, I have no need for any of dotMac&#8217;s web-based services, and as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/geekmuse.dreamhosters.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/geekmuse.dreamhosters.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/geekmuse.dreamhosters.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geekmuse.dreamhosters.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geekmuse.dreamhosters.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/geekmuse.dreamhosters.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/geekmuse.dreamhosters.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geekmuse.dreamhosters.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geekmuse.dreamhosters.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}