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Many of the reasons I do not find .mac useful are the same reasons I encourage others to use it. My needs are different than the average computer user. This is not an "I hate .mac" article but rather an explanation of the motivation and methods I used to provide myself with comparable services that are more useful to me. I publish it so that others may benefit from what I have learned.

AutomounMaker is a DONATEWARE, OS X native Universal Binary, easy tool to mount filesystems of type AFP, FTP, http, NFS, SMB. If you use always the same shared volume on your desktop, AutomountMaker is more easy than the classic Connect to Server... proposed by Apple. Another advantage is to be able to mount automatically your favorite volume when you open your session.

NcFTP Client Home Page NcFTP Client (also known as just NcFTP) is a set of FREE application programs implementing the File Transfer Protocol (FTP). The current version is: 3.2.0 (August 5, 2006). The program has been in service on UNIX systems since 1991 and is a popular alternative to the standard FTP program, /usr/bin/ftp. NcFTP offers many ease-of-use and performance enhancements over the stock ftp client, and runs on a wide variety of UNIX platforms as well as operating systems such Microsoft Windows and Apple Mac OS X. # NcFTP - FTP browser program # NcFTPGet - command-line utility program # NcFTPPut - command-line utility program # NcFTPLs - command-line utility program # NcFTPBatch - background FTP program for individual users # NcFTPSpooler - background batch FTP service for systems