I find it somewhat funny that accessing your mac through a dynamic dns service while out and about is now being described as ” ‘Back to Mac’ without .Mac”. I guess not many people knew you could do this sort of thing long before Apple introduced the Back to Mac feature in Leopard.
I’ve been using pretty much the exact set of instructions that lifehacker.com lays out in their article for several years and it works very well. I won’t duplicate their instructions, so click the link above if you also would like to not have to pay apple $99/yr for the few features of .Mac that you may like. I recommend using AFP over FTP to access your files. It’s just a better experience overall and allows you to do things like drag and drop files straight from Expression Media (formerly iView Media Pro) archives while your AFP volume is mounted. Check their directions for port numbers to use for AFP.
August 25th, 2008 at 12:28 pm
Thank you for this post. It’s a total lifesaver!
How do you like your *free* treo? I personally wish I had an iPhone, but I’m on a budget. I currently am trying to find an easier solution for synching iCal, Google Calendar and my Palm Calendar all in one shot. I guess I’m trying to find a MobileMe like feature for Palm, one quick simple application. I’m using GooSync (to sync b/w Treo and Google Calendar), Spanning Sync (to sync b/w iCal and Google Calendar) and my Hot Sync cable syncs between my Treo and iCal (among other things).
Is there an easier solution?
August 25th, 2008 at 1:03 pm
There really is no “easy” solution for this. Something I did in the past (yes i did bite the bullet and snag an iphone after sprint turned my service off twice in one week because of a clerical error) is to make iCal my central hub for all calendaring and then publish all of the categories i wanted to sync with google calender to my webdav enabled shared hosting site. Once you publish a category you can subscribe to it in google calendar and it’ll update any changes to make in iCal (one-way). If you don’t have a webdav enabled server, you can also try doing this with google calender. Either way you’ll still be syncing your treo.
As far as the mail feature of mobileme goes, by far the best thing you can do is get yourself setup with an imap email account and use the chatteremail client http://www.palm.com/us/software/chatteremail/ which supports something called “imap idle”. This feature will “push” new email directly to your treo and is way better than anything I’ve been able to do with the iPhone thus far.
Let me know if you have more questions about this and I can walk you through some other ideas.