Making the rounds: roll your own .Mac

I could have sworn we've covered this before, but I came up empty handed when searching our archives. Since .Mac and its price are such heated topics around these parts, I figured this How I created my own .Mac replacement story by Matt Simerson (heating up the digg charts, again) was worth a redux, e ecially since it's one of the most thorough I've ever seen. Matt doe 't just show you how to set up WebDAV to get an iDisk look-alike - he gets down and dirty with setting up a true iDisk replacement, right down to tricking the .Mac System Preferences panel into reading the new disk's storage ace as o osed to .Mac's. Matt doe 't stop at the iDisk, however, he gets iCal publishing and even Backup in on the fun.

However, Matt's tutorial i 't for the faint of heart. We're not talking about a download and a one-click i tall; he's digging around in and replacing a lot code, so be ready for a ride through the i ards of Mac OS X's .Mac software if you take a stab at rolling your own.