.Mac outages

MacNN | Apple's .Mac outages anger users:

Apple's .Mac suite of internet/Web services has been suffering several outages recently, and some users have began to lash out against Apple. According to CNET News.com, users are claiming these outages are unacceptable"

Follow up on my own .Mac syncing problems as of 8/2/06:

With the release of OS 10.4.7, my .Mac syncing woes mostly went away. Bookmarks finally started syncing as intended--about 5 months after I joined and paid for dotmac. Apple graciously granted me extra iDisk space in return for my trouble, which I accepted. However, every now and then something will stop syncing and I'll have to do a reset to get it back. It's not perfect, but I'm happier than when I started with my paid service. As you can see by the article above, I haven't been the only one upset with Apple over dotmac.

.Mac Woes

I just purchased my first .Mac membership. The marketing all sounds great, but it has some problems.

1. Mail continues to show up in my “Draft” mailbox after I’ve already sent it. Very weird.
2. My bookmarks won’t sync no matter what. I’m stuck with the default Apple bookmarks that come with Safari. Everything else seems to sync okay.
3. Using iDisk through the Finder is impossibly slow. Don’t even try it. Get Transmit instead.

I’m hoping to get most of the functionality I paid for soon.