So today I got an email from Apple telling me that the .Mac service has been updated and upgraded.

Dear .Mac member:

We’d like you to know about some exciting changes to your .Mac service. Read below to see how .Mac gives you new ways to share, more online storage, larger email attachments, and better control over spam in webmail.

You can now easily share photos and movies directly from iPhoto ‘08 and iMovie ‘08. Friends and family can see your photo albums in a variety of views. With your permission, they can download photos suitable for 16-by-20-inch prints and contribute photos by browser upload or email. To create a Web Gallery you will need iPhoto ‘08 version 7.0.1.

10x the storage. To make room for your photos and movies, your .Mac online storage will increase as follows:

Basic memberships will have a total of 10 GB of combined email and file storage.

Family Packs will have a total of 20 GB (10 GB for the master account, 2.5 GB for each sub-account).

If you upgraded to 2 GB, you will have a total of 20 GB of storage; if you upgraded to 4 GB, you will have a total of 30 GB.

You should see the storage increase in your account by August 14th.

Improved iWeb site hosting. Using iWeb ‘08, you can embed dynamic web widgets like Google Maps, Google AdSense, Web Gallery albums, or HTML snippets in your .Mac site. You’ll also find new themes and one-click theme-switching. And if you have your own personal domain, new settings in iWeb ‘08 let you assign it to your .Mac site.

Larger email attachments. You can now send and receive larger email attachments—up to 20 MB.

Improved webmail spam filtering. .Mac Mail also helps you better manage unwanted email with enhanced junk mail identification and sorting in webmail. To activate this new feature, just turn it on in your webmail preferences—go to www.mac.com, click Mail, and select Preferences in the upper right.

We hope these improvements help you get even more from your .Mac membership. And, as always, thank you for being a .Mac member.

Sincerely,

The .Mac Team

About time. After nearly 5 years of small mailboxes, spam filtering only on the Mail client and generally dull features all available free somewhere else this new update is very well received by yours truly.

iLife and iWorks have seen an ‘08 update also. But it was the second mail I received that beheld a complete picture of loveliness. The new iMac is, well, a pretty piece of kit.

And even the UK Apple website has seen the treatment that the US one received at the launch of the iPhone.

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