I’m a Mac user - but not an iPhone user. I have a .Mac account, but don’t use it much … all that said, I think this may still be of interest to those of you open source fans with iPhones or Macs. This from TechCrunch:

One of the big announcements yesterday from Apple was that it is replacing its .Mac service with MobileMe, a new service that will sync your email, contacts, calendar, photos, and files between your iPhone, Mac desktop, and a Windows PC. It will cost $99 per year. But if you want most of the functionality of MobileMe without the cost, you will be able to download an app from Funambol at the official iPhone App Store on July 11 that does many of the same things.

Funambol offers open-source mobile syncing software for email, contacts and calendars. It works with Exchange, Domino, POP, or IMAP email servers, and already supports hundreds of different phone models. It even works on current (jailbroken) models of the iPhone.

The software won’t sync your files or photos, but since it is open-source there is nothing stopping other developers from building such services on its underlying synchronization engine.

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As you may know, I’m a new Mac user. I’m still trying to find my way around and find software packages that work for me. Today someone sent me an awesome site with a list of Open Source products for my Mac. Open Source Mac lists many packages I use already and some I’ve never heard of!! This is a nice resource if you’re a Mac user looking for some open source option.