MobileMe has been tough to defend since day one of Mac.com. It costs a hundred bucks a year. What do you get for that dough? Oh, a whole pile of world-class, useful features.

You get e-mail which is every bit as good as Google Mail (which is free).

Online storage! If you’re a fan of Box.net or , you’ll love your iDisk so much that you’ll eventually forget that both of those services were free, and that Box.net supports live online editing of Office documents and DropBox automatically keeps your online storage in sync with folders on every Mac or PC you own!

And you say you like publishing your photos and videos on the Web? Apple has a spectacular solution for you: all of its iLife apps can export your media to lovely MobileMe online galleries. No more mailing photos to relati…