Apple Details Recent Enhancements to MobileMe

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Apple today posted a MobileMe news article (http://www.apple.com/mobileme/news/2009/02/mobileme-update-information.html) referring to a new new support document (http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3409) detailing recent enhancements to MobileMe.Mail
- Compose window address selector shows all email addresses for contacts, not just home and work addresses.
- Newly added email addresses to Contacts appear in the compose window selector without having to logout and login.
- Improved printing of HTML formatted messages.

Contacts
- vCard export supports all text fields.
- Improved results when searching with both first and last names.
- Improved Japanese name ordering.

Calendar
- Faster start time when accessing Calendar for the first time.
- Faster performance when switching between day/week/month views.
- Calendar now retains your last view settings, such as day, week, or month view, as well as showing or hiding the To Do panel.

Gallery
- Faster loading of Gallery home page for visitors.

Login
- MobileMe login has new design featuring news updates.The tweaks follow several recent updates to MobileMe, including the addition of file sharing (http://www.macrumors.com/2009/02/13/mobileme-file-sharing-now-available/) and the release of a new version of MobileMe Control Panel for Windows (http://www.macrumors.com/2009/02/10/apple-releases-mobileme-control-panel-1-3-for-windows/) that enables faster syncing contacts and calendars with Outlook.

Article Link: Apple Details Recent Enhancements to MobileMe (http://www.macrumors.com/2009/02/25/apple-details-recent-enhancements-to-mobileme/)

[derryquinn]

Nice to see it is being improved, however certain things such as "Faster loading of Gallery home page for visitors." makes you wonder why this wasn't as fast as possible before... did anyone used to have trouble connecting to .Mac galleries "back in the day"? I always found them incredibly slow. Are MobileMe's any better? I haven't used one yet.

The new page looks a lot nicer, I didn't like the other one, it looked kinda... bland, and while this is very similar, for once, more text makes it look nicer.

[rachaface]

does anyone know if you can now log in on internet explorer? i wish i could avoid it, but the school computers take an extra 5 or 6 minutes to load in firefox when the computer starts up, and i just dont have the time between classes to log into my iDisk on firefox when MSIE is available instantly.

[samh004]

I guess a faster gallery might also be a feature of Safari 4, rather than MobileMe. Like the new front page, looking forward to them adding a few new apps at some point, giving me something I'm missing, but don't know it yet.

[longofest]

Nice to see it is being improved, however certain things such as "Faster loading of Gallery home page for visitors." makes you wonder why this wasn't included befor...

They had to get the product out of the door. If you take the approach that it should be flawless on the initial launch, then you will never launch because you will always be tweaking and refining.

That being said, it should at least WORK when it is launched. MobileMe had horrible issues when it launched that were inexcusable. However, something like optimizing the loading of webpages is perfectly acceptable to include post-launch; it worked before, it just works better now that they have had time to go back through the code and performance tune it better.

[PlaceofDis]

too little too late. i've already decided that after 3 years .mac/mobile me will never be up to where it should be. just not worth the cost when there are better alternatives out there.

[Doctor Q]

"Keep me logged in for two weeks" finally works.

[voicegy]

"Keep me logged in for two weeks" finally works.

Hast thou a time machine, good Doctor? ;)

(Odd how many gods and demi-gods posted early on this thread.)

I've had a .mac account from the beginning when it was free - it's always nice to see improvements, especially given the yearly admission fee. :)

[emotion]

too little too late. i've already decided that after 3 years .mac/mobile me will never be up to where it should be. just not worth the cost when there are better alternatives out there.

I'm beginning to think like that as well. Here in Europe iDisks are slower too.

[chicagdan]

I'm beginning to think like that as well. Here in Europe iDisks are slower too.

The combination of Safari 4 plus the MobileMe upgrades means it's finally a usable Windows webmail client. It's never going to be worth the money, but for those who have stuck with it for years, this is a welcome upgrade. Safari 4 in particular is a huge leap forward, so much faster.

[walnuts]

It also seems to me like they added Chrome to the list of acceptable browsers- that seemed to me like an oversight on apple's part. I can't imagine that Chrome didn't actually display mobile me correctly, and I never had any issues with it.

[manhattanboy]

I for one think that calendar is much snappier. Kudos for the improvement... but they better keep at it with Google offering free services very similar.

[virus7]

I'd still like to be able to reply to an html email and have it quote the formatted HTML message and not just the code.

Also the sorting of emails is based on when the email entered the folder, not the received date. I'd like to be able to set that or at least have it remember my last sort.

I'm still disappointed in the web interface.

[Sky Blue]

Login screen looks much better

[Teh Don Ditty]

As PlaceOfDis already mentioned, too little too late.

I let my MoMe expire in January. Got push email and my own little website to do everything.

A shame really. If Apple had waited instead of forcing it out the door with 2.0 and 3G this would've been a bigger success IMHO.

[kornyboy]

Wirelessly posted (iPhone: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 2_2_1 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/525.18.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.1.1 Mobile/5H11 Safari/525.20)

I noticed this earlier today. I still wish that Apple would add the ability to add a reminder to calendar events that you setup online. It is a bit annoying to set up the event and then have to go to the computer at home or my iPhone to set the reminder. Oh well, maybe in the future.

[tjt011]

The site is down now....great improvement!

[arkitect]

The site is down now....great improvement!

It's up for me…

[tjt011]

its not working in safari except photos...

[tjt011]

now I'm not getting anything but a blank screen

[arkitect]

its not working in safari except photos...

Well… it is fine on both Firefox and Safari 4…

[Kilamite]

I don't use the web applications at all - but it is good to know they are still enhancing them, so when I do need to use it at some point.

[tjt011]

Hmm, must just be me

[Chris Grande]

Still can't email a group from the web interface.

[CmdrLaForge]

If they would just add reminders to the web interface of MobileMe calendar function I would be happy. Nevertheless - any update and improvement is welcome.

[crees!]

I wish they would add "Create MobileMe Gallery" to the iPhone. If I'm out and want to upload photos to a new Gallery I need to use MobileMe and not the photo app to do so.

[azentropy]

I wish they would get around to adding being able to send email to a group for both MobleMe and the iPhone!

Guess I keep using, and manually updating the "template" I use in my Drafts folder.

[Doctor Q]

Hast thou a time machine, good Doctor? ;)Yes, as a matter of fact, but in this case, I didn't use it.

I tested two of the three aspects of the "Keep me logged in for two weeks" feature: Log me in. That's always worked.
Remember me the next time I stop by. That didn't work for me until this week.
Stop remembering me after 2 weeks. We'll see, but I don't really care if this part works or not!

[Digital Skunk]

does anyone know if you can now log in on internet explorer? i wish i could avoid it, but the school computers take an extra 5 or 6 minutes to load in firefox when the computer starts up, and i just dont have the time between classes to log into my iDisk on firefox when MSIE is available instantly.

This is going to be the next biggest update to the service that will help prove it's worth to many, including Windows users.

I am happy for the enhancements/fixes of bugs as well, but being able to use Mobile Me in other browsers will make it a service that you can truly access from anywhere.

[mmulin]

I am still missing settings to assign on which item (Mail, Calender, etc) MobileMe will open for me after login. I find it ridiculous to always land at the iDisk folders which I rarely, if at all, use.

[mikes63737]

It would be nice if they could add remote wipe to MobileMe.

[Apple Ink]

Nice to find that Apple is working to fix the issues.... they finally are delivering on their claim of 'Quality Service'..

Though I did prefer the old login screen.... LOL!!

[MacFly123]

Login screen looks much better

I think it looks nice but I liked the old one too :)

[rorober]

Cannot sync calendars due to inconsistent data. Has anyone found a fix to this? If so, please help!

[TuffLuffJimmy]

Cannot sync calendars due to inconsistent data. Has anyone found a fix to this? If so, please help!

try replacing the data on mobileme with what's on your computer. The option to do this is in the MobileMe pane in system preferences.

[TuffLuffJimmy]

Does anyone actually use the web apps? I thought it was an awesome idea, but I've only used the mail app once, and never used any of the other apps.

[rorober]

Does anyone actually use the web apps? I thought it was an awesome idea, but I've only used the mail app once, and never used any of the other apps.

Pretty Funny. I use it for everything except mail. I freelance a lot and I don't keep anything related to it on my work computer. Address Book, iDisk, photos and iCal (when it worked) are extremely useful when away from home.

[rorober]

try replacing the data on mobileme with what's on your computer. The option to do this is in the MobileMe pane in system preferences.

I tried this once before with no luck, but I'll give it another shot tonight.

[arkitect]

Does anyone actually use the web apps? I thought it was an awesome idea, but I've only used the mail app once, and never used any of the other apps.

Not me.
I only use Mobileme to retain my old ***@mac.com address and the syncing between my Macs and iPhone…

Photo Albums? Calendar? Web Mail? Nope…

Pretty Funny. I use it for everything except mail. I freelance a lot and I don't keep anything related to it on my work computer. Address Book, iDisk, photos and iCal (when it worked) are extremely useful when away from home.

I tried this once before with no luck, but I'll give it another shot tonight.
Multi-Quote is your friend. ;)

[lftrghtparadigm]

It really is about time. MobileMe has been treated just like .Mac. Add a feature, then you don't hear from them for a year.

[lftrghtparadigm]

Does anyone actually use the web apps? I thought it was an awesome idea, but I've only used the mail app once, and never used any of the other apps.

Yes, plenty of people use them. I use them constantly. They work briliantly. Why wouldn't someone use them?

If you use Mobile Me for email, and you use a computer to check your email (a few people do this) then yea, the Web Apps become useful.

If you are on your own home computer, yeah you can use Mail/iCal/Address Book. But only if its you're computer and i jump around a lot during the day. I prefer the web based apps and look forward to their future.

[Apple Ink]

It really is about time. MobileMe has been treated just like .Mac. Add a feature, then you don't hear from them for a year.

Except this feature was supposed to come last year...lol!

[manhattanboy]

Yes, plenty of people use them. I use them constantly. They work briliantly. Why wouldn't someone use them?

If you use Mobile Me for email, and you use a computer to check your email (a few people do this) then yea, the Web Apps become useful.

If you are on your own home computer, yeah you can use Mail/iCal/Address Book. But only if its you're computer and i jump around a lot during the day. I prefer the web based apps and look forward to their future.

I 2nd the notion of their utility!
Not all of use are blessed with MACs everywhere... During the daylight I'm stuck with PCs:(:(:(:(

[Eric S.]

does anyone know if you can now log in on internet explorer? i wish i could avoid it, but the school computers take an extra 5 or 6 minutes to load in firefox when the computer starts up, and i just dont have the time between classes to log into my iDisk on firefox when MSIE is available instantly.

I tried it with IE7 and it seemed to work fine, even though as you log in it tells you that it will be slower and some things may not work.

Does anyone actually use the web apps? I thought it was an awesome idea, but I've only used the mail app once, and never used any of the other apps.

I never use the web apps.

I 2nd the notion of their utility!
Not all of use are blessed with MACs everywhere... During the daylight I'm stuck with PCs:(:(:(:(

You can always get an iPod touch. ;)

[megfilmworks]

I am happy for the enhancements/fixes of bugs as well, but being able to use Mobile Me in other browsers will make it a service that you can truly access from anywhere.
I love Mobile Me, works great everywhere on my multiple platforms and does what is advertised with virtually no issues,
but I agree with you and others who would love to see it compatible with IE. Sometimes you need to access your account on a lousy computer in a hotel lobby, etc.

[megfilmworks]

Cannot sync calendars due to inconsistent data. Has anyone found a fix to this? If so, please help!

System prefs/mobileme/sync/advanced/reset sync data

Works like a charm!

[synth3tik]

I actually rather offended by this. By enhancement do they mean mobileme might work.....


OK so I am half joking, but still I feel like a sucker for paying $100 a year for this. I know this and I still do it, no one to blame but myself.

[TuffLuffJimmy]

I actually rather offended by this. By enhancement do they mean mobileme might work.....


OK so I am half joking, but still I feel like a sucker for paying $100 a year for this. I know this and I still do it, no one to blame but myself.

I felt the same way, but not it's more of a: at least they got it working, and now I won't be bothered much with it (hopefully).

I just got another year of MobileMe as a gift, so looks like I'll be using it for another year, so I'm glad it'll keep working.

[Eric S.]

I actually rather offended by this. By enhancement do they mean mobileme might work.....


OK so I am half joking, but still I feel like a sucker for paying $100 a year for this. I know this and I still do it, no one to blame but myself.

Would it be better if they never fixed anything?

[megfilmworks]

Does anyone know if mobile me sync with contacts
now supports your ringtone selection?
I still manually sync my contacts to avoid having
my ringtone prefs reset to default when mobile me syncs.

I like the new push from my iCal and Address book on my mac to the cloud.

[bericd]

Login screen looks much better

It's a good job. I keep getting the login screen even though I selected "Keep me logged in for 2 weeks". Big pain in the rear.

[twoodcc]

yeah i got an email about this the other day. very glad it will remember to display the to-do panel now, instead of me having to change it everytime