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.Mac Users Get Free WingNuts, More

by , 9:00 AM EDT, August 31st, 2004

Apple's .Mac online service periodically offers free, or reduced cost, software to it; continuing that tradition, .Apple is now offering .Mac users a free download of WingNuts, the popular game from Freeverse Software. From Apple:

You'll log hours of exhilarating flight time with WingNuts, an arcade-style game from Freeverse that puts you in pursuit of a time-traveling airforce of robot planes. Winner of a "5 mice" rating from MacWorld magazine, WingNuts features a sizzling soundtrack, spectacular graphics, and gameplay that gets downright nutty. A US$19.95 value, WingNuts is free for .Mac members until Nov. 10, 2004.

Apple is also offering .Mac users a 25% discount on another Freeverse game, Airburst Extreme. From Apple:

Airburst Extreme, the sequel to the award-winning Airburst, once again puts you into space as aliens playing paddleball atop a giant pod (or Floater) surrounded by smaller, protective balloons. Use the paddle and balls to pop your opponents' balloons-while protecting yours. Dubbed "a steroid-injected version of the original" by Inside Mac Games, Airburst Extreme enhances play with more characters, more game types, and some highly creative Extreme Powerups.

Until Nov. 10, 2004, buy the full version for Mac OS X for just US$22.46Ñ25 percent off the regular US$29.95 price.

.Mac users can download WingNuts, and get more information about the 25% discount on Airburst Extreme at Apple's .Mac Web site.

The Mac Observer Spin:

We think that value-added offers like this are important to help maintain interest in .Mac, especially when it comes close to renewal time, as it is for everyone who first signed up with .Mac when Apple unveiled it.

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Close Name:fussili Posts: 21 Joined: 10 Dec 2001
Tue Aug 31, 2004 10:16 am Subject: I'm with .Mac

I just accepted when I joined up 2 years ago that I'd be getting shafted for keeping my email address, however Apple has really made this a valuable package.

Thus far I've found lots of uses for the gifts and perks of .mac membership, even if it's only something as mundane as an expanded demo for new games like Nanosaur 2. The functionality and Apple's knack for offering some really excellent 3rd Party software deals (like Wingnuts for free) makes renewing my membership something that doesn't make me wince - a feat I considered impossible when .mac was unveiled. An internet charged-subscription service that's worth its price? Almost seems absurd.


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Close Name:Guest
Tue Aug 31, 2004 4:29 pm Subject: Were is my 1GB of eMail Space?!#$#!??

15MB with .mac. 1GB at Google and Spymac. 100MB at Yahoo! Come on Apple, get with the program. 15MB is so .com.


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Wed Sep 01, 2004 3:37 am Subject: Mail@mac.com = SPAM! Lots of SPAM!

I have had a .Mac eMail account since day one, when it was free. Since it became a pay for service I have gotten more SPAM that from the combination for several other eMail accounts. Didn't get any when it was free.

It's going to take a lot more than periodic freebies to keep me. Let's try "REAL" SPAM protection!!!?


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Wed Sep 01, 2004 3:49 am Subject: Where would I be without my iSync?

Just the iSync and iDisk features alone make my .mac account worth every penny! With a G4, iMac and iBook in three different locations they are indispensable for keeping my Address Book and iCal syncronised or exchanging files with others.


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Close Name:Engine Joe Posts: 413 Joined: 29 Jun 2004
Wed Sep 01, 2004 8:40 am Subject: Re: Mail@mac.com = SPAM! Lots of SPAM!

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Anonymous wrote:
I have had a .Mac eMail account since day one, when it was free. Since it became a pay for service I have gotten more SPAM that from the combination for several other eMail accounts. Didn't get any when it was free.

It's going to take a lot more than periodic freebies to keep me. Let's try "REAL" SPAM protection!!!?


Whereas I've never gotten one piece of SPAM in my .mac account.


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Close Name:spxyu02 Posts: 1214 Joined: 04 Aug 2004
Thu Sep 02, 2004 4:30 pm Subject: Re: Mail@mac.com = SPAM! Lots of SPAM!

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Anonymous wrote:
I have had a .Mac eMail account since day one, when it was free. Since it became a pay for service I have gotten more SPAM that from the combination for several other eMail accounts. Didn't get any when it was free.

It's going to take a lot more than periodic freebies to keep me. Let's try "REAL" SPAM protection!!!?


Try visiting less porn and strange fetish sites and see what happens...


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Close Name:DawnTreader -   TMO Staff Posts: 15039 Joined: 04 Jan 2002
Thu Sep 02, 2004 7:11 pm Subject: Re: Mail@mac.com = SPAM! Lots of SPAM!

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Anonymous wrote:
I have had a .Mac eMail account since day one, when it was free. Since it became a pay for service I have gotten more SPAM that from the combination for several other eMail accounts. Didn't get any when it was free.

It's going to take a lot more than periodic freebies to keep me. Let's try "REAL" SPAM protection!!!?


I don't think the issue is .Mac. The issue may be from where you have either posted an e-mail address (including public forums) or filled out a form and the site made your address available to spammers.

I get virtually no spam at my .Mac address but have other addresses flooded with spam due to my work as a writer.


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