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June 13, 2007

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Accessing dotMac on Apple’s new site: It’s like a treasure hunt!

Posted Jun. 13, ’07, 6:11 PM PT by Kate Marshall
Category | Internet

dotmacpicture.jpgAnyone following this year’s WWDC has probably already noticed that Apple’s changed its website design. The new scheme features a lot more black and brushed metal, and less tabs. When you now visit Apple’s main page, you see seven tabs: the Apple logo for the homepage, “Store,” “Mac,” “iPod+iTunes,” “iPhone,” “Downloads,” and finally, “Support.” A search box is also tacked on there at the end.

But what happened to the dedicated tab for Apple’s dotMac service? As stated in an email that Apple sent to dotMac subscribers (who didn’t disable emailed updates from Apple), access to dotMac has been absorbed into the general “Mac” tab now, where it resides under links to Apple’s “Get a Mac” ads. Alternatively, Apple reminds us, you can still access your .Mac webmail and services by directly visiting the dotMac website. Intriguing.


4 Comments

Dave-O said:

I'm not sure what's intriguing about that. Clearly .Mac isn't going away, that Back to my Mac feature is pretty cool (if you don't already have dyndns).

Just to play editor for a moment, it's fewer tabs, not less.

June 13, 2007 8:24 PM
spiderbat said:

Mmmhhh.... It seems that .Mac has been hidden on purpose within Apple's website. I'm not a conspiracy theorist, but that could mean something...

June 14, 2007 12:30 AM
msadesign Author Profile Page said:

Oh, Kate! YOU, of all people!

I can see Derik blundering into this, and maybe even Thomas- but YOU? The queen of the keyboard??

'less tabs'?

'fewer tabs' would be correct, those danged beer commercials notwithstanding.

[and I hope the boys forgive me]

June 14, 2007 5:13 AM
Derik said:

I forgive no one until they buy me a drink.

June 14, 2007 6:17 AM

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