It's Nacho Cat: Photobooth Edition

It seems that the Photobooth program on Macs never ceases to be fun. I decided to get Nacho in on the action. As you can see, she was thrilled.

.Mac = ?

Allrighty. I just got a new iMac at home, and am wanting to synchronize the information from my office Mac and my home Mac. So Mac offers these .Mac accounts, for which I signed up with a free 60-day trial.

I was excited about trying this, because I know it can provide an easy way to synchronize stuff, as well as a good way to publish websites. I am thinking of taking my youth group blog and making it into a full web page, which I think would be a good move. Then again, I've so far been unimpressed with iWeb. It is beautiful, as far as the templates are concerned, but I prefer the blogging features available to me on Blogger. With iWeb, you have the option of adding only 1 picture per post, and It's fairly rigid in your options on layout. So part of me is pretty uninclined to go with it, because I can do more with Blogger.

I have really grown to love Macs over the last year, and I don't think I'll ever buy another PC unless some drastic things happen (and they could). It's simple to use. It never crashes. The programs it comes with are fantastic, and they communicate well with each other. Even the PC programs like MS Office on the Mac are better.

But a lot of what .Mac is offering, I can already do using Google applications. I e-mail important documents to myself. I already have all my contacts on Gmail, and don't really have a need to put them all into my local hard drive, or onto an iDisk for that matter. I also use Google calendar, which works just fine. I publish photos of events on Picasa Web, which works every bit as well as the Mac galleries.

I'm trying to justify the expense of .Mac for the very few extra tools it would offer me.

Anyone know of some things I'm not seeing here?

For all you Tennesseeans out there...

Don't forget that this coming weekend is a Sales Tax Holiday! Here are the terms about what is exempt and what is not. This includes a lot of different items including clothing. I've got my target set on a computer. We currently own 3; all of which run miserably, and two of which need to end up at a dump somewhere. I'm preparing to make the swap all around, and I doubt I'll ever look back. You can spend up to $1,500 on a computer bundle and not have to pay taxes. This is not only for students, but is open to anyone.