HowTo: Back to My Mac, without .mac November 8, 2007
Posted by CLibra in Apple, HowTo, Internet, Network, Technology.trackback
The new ‘Back to My Mac’ is a gimick. Used as a way to sell more .mac accounts, the service is basicly tarted up VNC. Ok, so it makes it simple because there are no ports, addresses etc to set up, but honestly, would you pay for it?
AllForces have come up with a great tutorial – involving a little bit of AppleScript and tweaking – that gives you this for free. I can’t say if it works well or not because I haven’t got leopard, but give it a go, it seems like a bit “Stuff you!” to .mac.
[http://allforces.com/2007/11/06/back-to-my-mac-through-ichat/]
Well, I’ve been a .mac user since the service was introduced as a freebee named iTools some years back. No one really believed it would be free forever—nothing but salvation is free—so I wasn’t surprised or offended when it became a paid service. It is up most of the time, is reasonable priced and has good performance. And yes, Backup works best when used with .mac, but so what? If you really need a free backup system, use Carbon Copy Cloner (http://www.bombich.com/software/ccc.html) and just drag and drop. I don’t use Backup with .mac. It’s a slick program for burning to CD and DVDs, but requires .mac.