Dot Fruux
I’ve always been a little frustrated with .Mac.
I already have most of the services they provide, and paying for the ones I miss make it really expensive.
Like many, I didn’t wait for apple to get an email adress,
I have my own dedicated server, with a (this) blog, a self-cooked photo gallery for friends and family,
I carry an 8GB usb thumb in my pocket all the time,
and I have a VPN network between.
So, there goes the needs for Imap Email, Web Hosting, Web Gallery and iDisk.
Groups seems like a nice feature, but (a) I don’t have that many friends; (b) seems like a good one to develop myself if I needed it.
That leaves me with : Sync.
I have a few macs, and keeping in sync has always required some organization skills I miss.
Of course, there is the notMac Challenge but let’s face it, it doesn’t have a great momentum.
HERE COMES fruux !
A German initiative to solve this problem… and others.
One of the creators defines it as social and sync.
You can sync your Mac Adress Book (OK, but what else ?), and it will be able to keep your contacts up to date, provided your contacts also use it.
More info on that feature here.
It’s still in Beta (beta like in not ready to ship, not like in google’s beta) so it lacks most of the features, but it surely is promising.
I’m curently beta testing. It does one thing for now : syncing. But it does it well, nicely via a prefPane, and that’s all I’m asking – for now.
That’s a good news !
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