Finally, someone else is mentioning it. Otherwise I thought I was the only one wanting to be able to see birthdays on the iPhone.
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Apple Details Ongoing MobileMe Upgrades
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The only reason I subscribed to .Mac was the iDisk. I thought it would be a great way to share files with clients and myself in lieu of a flash drive from work to home.
When I add files to my iDisk it takes days sometimes to see it when I login somewhere else. The other times it doesn't shows up at all. Too unpredictable and a waste of hard earned cash for me, nice concept though, lol. As for the pushing services, sounds great too, but I don't own an iPhone yet.
Uuuugg
When I add files to my iDisk it takes days sometimes to see it when I login somewhere else. The other times it doesn't shows up at all. Too unpredictable and a waste of hard earned cash for me, nice concept though, lol. As for the pushing services, sounds great too, but I don't own an iPhone yet.
Uuuugg
This was the known bug at launch, however it was fixed shortly after. It may take 15min for this to be seen online.....double check your settings on your iPhone.
MM Mail > Preferences > Appearences > 2 Panes
You will need to double click a message to open in.
3 Panes auto opens messages.
You can do this in Mail as well (just drag the separation bar all the way down).
Although MobileMe is working "better" it is still a work in progress and needs some additional attention.
One of the problems I have experienced is that sometimes I can't Replay to some messages. I cant remember exactly but I get the message after i hit send (only when I try Replay not New message), it just tells me it can not send or deliver message, but the problem is that user does receive email even if I got message saying it can not be sent...so there were instances where end user received several (same) emails. This was happening when they started MobileMe, but not lately.
Wirelessly posted (iPhone: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 2_1 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/525.18.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.1.1 Mobile/5F136 Safari/525.20)
One thing that they updated was the logout button actually says "Log Out" now instead of looking like a power button. This was purely cosmetic though.
One thing that they updated was the logout button actually says "Log Out" now instead of looking like a power button. This was purely cosmetic though.
well coming from a mobileme user, i am very glad to see this. as long as they continue to work on making mobileme better, i'll stay a customer
Works fine for me. I've had uninterrupted mail service since '05, and I STILL got an extra 90 days this year. I'm happy with the service.
yes, yes, I know that other people are having problems. ymmv.
For the most part I like the service. Works for what I need.
However I still haven't figured out why when I delete an email from my computer or iPod touch it shows up as unread in my trash can.
However I still haven't figured out why when I delete an email from my computer or iPod touch it shows up as unread in my trash can.
Works for me
I too suffered problems at MobileMe launch. But by late August I found that all of them were completely resolved. Either I'm one of the lucky ones, or MobileMe just works better on very fast connections (which I have both at home and at work).
The web services have been working great for me since then. They are faster and more reliable than .Mac ever was. In particular, MobileMe mail has been *much* more reliable -- .Mac mail used to have outages of several hours every month or so, but MobileMe mail hasn't gone out on me once since it recovered from the launch issues.
OS X 10.5.5 overhauled the syncing mechanism, and I've found that the new syncing mechanism is faster and more reliable than the old one. It still will occasionally fail to delete a Calendar item or a Contact, but since 10.5.5 came out I haven't had any failures to add or change items (which are obviously more important). Keychain sync is also reliable for the first time in a long time.
In short, I'm that (apparent) rarity: a happy MobileMe customer.
I too suffered problems at MobileMe launch. But by late August I found that all of them were completely resolved. Either I'm one of the lucky ones, or MobileMe just works better on very fast connections (which I have both at home and at work).
The web services have been working great for me since then. They are faster and more reliable than .Mac ever was. In particular, MobileMe mail has been *much* more reliable -- .Mac mail used to have outages of several hours every month or so, but MobileMe mail hasn't gone out on me once since it recovered from the launch issues.
OS X 10.5.5 overhauled the syncing mechanism, and I've found that the new syncing mechanism is faster and more reliable than the old one. It still will occasionally fail to delete a Calendar item or a Contact, but since 10.5.5 came out I haven't had any failures to add or change items (which are obviously more important). Keychain sync is also reliable for the first time in a long time.
In short, I'm that (apparent) rarity: a happy MobileMe customer.
Exactly, I just dropped it last week after having it for about a month on the 60 day trial period. I no use for the extra email and it's synchronization of contacts blows. You have so little control over what happens. It took over a week initially for it to synch contacts after the getting help setting up at the Apple Store (the "genius" at the store said in response to blank screen, "well it must be that you have so many contacts, wait a few hours" (~200 really?), several days later still no contacts). By that time I had entered in a lot of contacts I needed manually. When the synch happened, I got many duplicates, and then it started making duplicates of duplicates. Stuff entered on the iPhone got wiped off when sync's happened, etc. iCal was an absolute mess and it can't be cleaned up on the phone, you have to clean it up on the desktop, but the next time a sync occurs, guess what? The mess on the phone gets put back on the desktop. aaaaggghhh!
iDisk is too little to be worth it. etc.
So before it became to painful, I backed up what I could on my macbook, turned OFF the sync there, cleaned iCal, contacts, etc. up on my macbook.
Then turned off sync on my iPhone and removed it. Guess what? Good thing I backed things up, because the bastards wiped all contacts, iCal, bookmarks, etc. from my iPhone. Gee, what swell guys. Just because I don't want to use you lousy fascist service.
Fortunately, after cleanup, I was able to sync ONE-WAY to my iPhone and now am able to have control again!
Apple is missing a lot of features in MobileMe. When my subscription expires next year, I am going to cancel unless they get their act together.
I wish they would open up the sync technoogy with Yahoo, Google and whoever else wants to do it. (MSN ?) We need some competition in this area, which is why it doesn't exist yet. Apple knows that Google would eat them for lunch if they opened it up.
*sigh*, vendor lock in.
I wish they would open up the sync technoogy with Yahoo, Google and whoever else wants to do it. (MSN ?) We need some competition in this area, which is why it doesn't exist yet. Apple knows that Google would eat them for lunch if they opened it up.
*sigh*, vendor lock in.
Why not use Plaxo? I've used it for a while now to back up my calendar/contacts online from Outlook and also to sync various computers both Mac + PC and it also syncs with Address book/iCal/Gmail Calendar + others. It's also free [unless you want som of the extra features] and quite clever - a very useful site. Even better it doesn't lose your data!
http://www.plaxo.com
The inability to synch Exchange based calendars is still the show stopper for me.
I just bought mobile me from ebay for 40$......and I must say, I am quite happy with it.
It keeps all my data synced among my vaio & macbook at home and my office PC........not to mention my iphone as well.
I unified my diff mail accounts by forwarding them to me.com......and it works pretty well.
It keeps all my data synced among my vaio & macbook at home and my office PC........not to mention my iphone as well.
I unified my diff mail accounts by forwarding them to me.com......and it works pretty well.
Just a couple of things
I must say that MobileMe has had some setbacks. Quite a few emails that I sent never arrived and that were sent to me I never received.
I would like to see better integration with the iPhone:
idisk, calendar subscriptions and have all the colours on my mac, web app and phone ALL BE THE SAME COLOUR!
I must say that MobileMe has had some setbacks. Quite a few emails that I sent never arrived and that were sent to me I never received.
I would like to see better integration with the iPhone:
idisk, calendar subscriptions and have all the colours on my mac, web app and phone ALL BE THE SAME COLOUR!
Doesn't gmail parse your messages so that you can be subjected to "targeted" advertising? Don't gotta love that.
Me also. At first I had a problem getting contacts to sync on all my systems, but a support person fixed it in a chat session and I haven't had any problems since.
Mobile me is horrible!!
Plan and simple. I pay for me, my wife and Mother in law and would love to get out of mobileme all together. Unfortunately, no one wants to go through the hassle of changing email addresses. This is what is so genius with apple. Sell a discount to mobileme when you buy a mac and forever will it own you. Man I wish I had said no. Web access to my mail is so miserable I gave up two weeks ago. I emailed apple support and they told me "it is being worked on as we speak and please be patient." If I didn't have an iphone I would be pissed that I am paying that much for horribly slow service and miserable storage capacity.
Mobile me=fail for now
Plan and simple. I pay for me, my wife and Mother in law and would love to get out of mobileme all together. Unfortunately, no one wants to go through the hassle of changing email addresses. This is what is so genius with apple. Sell a discount to mobileme when you buy a mac and forever will it own you. Man I wish I had said no. Web access to my mail is so miserable I gave up two weeks ago. I emailed apple support and they told me "it is being worked on as we speak and please be patient." If I didn't have an iphone I would be pissed that I am paying that much for horribly slow service and miserable storage capacity.
Mobile me=fail for now
This statement is correct but I hate paying to be a beta tester for apple!! They use to make sure stuff worked before release.