Last night I bit the bullet and paid for a .mac account with apple. Not 24 hours later and I’m extremely happy with my purchase. I love that fact that I can use my Apple mail client at home and at work and see the exact same contents in my mailbox. But not just my mailbox, my signatures and smart mailboxes to. I was a little worried about leaving all the great features of gmail behind, but then I found this page, which is full of plugins for Apple’s mail client.

The one in particular that caught my eye and have been using since last night is MailTags. Yes, you read that correctly, MailTags (as in, tag your emails with keywords like you would using Del.icio.us or Flickr! It’s a feature that I’ve been dying for and even requested from Google to add to gmail.

I’m also a big fan of iDisk and have already started storing files between work and home. Not to mention the syncing of all my other data (calendars, bookmarks, contacts, etc…). When I first learned about .mac accounts I bitched about the price, but now I understand what the fuss is all about.