.Mac on Trial

I am the proud owner of two Apple computers. I have a G5 as my desktop machine, and a powerbook as my portable. I use both very frequently, but do a horrible job at keeping track of my address book, calendar, and documents because I do half on one machine and half on another. This always causes problems, so I never even attempt to keep track of these on either machine.

However, I have been to lazy and too poor to try Apples' .Mac (Dot-Mac) service. It normally highlights it's public Web storage for personal sites of stupid people who can't find something cheaper, or it's autoformatting of content like pictures from iPhoto or movies from iMovie. However, it's real strength is in it's remote syncing of bookmarks, contacts, calendar events, and email settings. Now I can make a change to any of my settings and it will reflect that on both machines. I can put my schedule into iCal knowing that I can see it at any time without entering it twice. My junk mail will be filtered only once.

Of course, I just started this yesterday, but it already makes me very happy. I have 59 more days in my free trial before I have to shell out $100 for the service, but I'll see if it is actually worth it. If anything, I can sync more permanent things like bookmarks and contacts while I can.