Apple Details Recent MobileMe Enhancements

[sonictonic]

WOOHOO for the ringtone fix finally! That one was such a DUH.

Gonna test it later tonight.

 

[soLoredd]

Cool, lots of new things. But wait... suddenly mail doesnt seem to be in sync with mobileme or my iphone anymore!!!!

I've been having problems for the past week or so with this. I delete emails on my MBP, they delete on my Mini, but on my iPhone they act like new emails. I have to go into the Mail app and delete them myself on the iPhone. Before, when I go into Mail, it would check for messages and delete those that were applicable. Doesn't do this the other way around, however.

And I STILL do not understand why changes are not pushed from MBP to iPhone. Even with a MobileMe sync from my MBP, emails do not get changed on the iPhone unless I do it on the phone. What's the point then? I don't want to look at the same messages twice! I should be able to delete or read the email on my Mac, MobileMe should then sync (even if it's every minute or whatever) and the changes should be visible on my phone. Why does it work from iPhone to Mac and not the other way? Now that push services are up and running, I should be able to choose to have Mail on my phone run continuously.

 

[Wombert]

You can publish your automatically generated birthdays calendar to MobileMe. Then, subscribe to the published feed on your iPhone. I do it all the time.

1. Turn on the birthday calendar in iCal's general preference pane.
2. Click the birthdays calendar to highlight it within iCal.
3. Under the Calendar menu, choose publish.
4. After the birthday calendar is published, send yourself a publish e-mail.
5. Click the subscribe link in your iPhone's Mail application.

The reminders get published too.

Thanks for the suggestion. The problem however is that birthdays of people I add on the iPhone won't show up until I use the Mac where I publish the calendar. And I use two Macs. Which adds to the problem

Besides, publishing can include reminders, but the Address Book birthday calendar doesn't have reminders, and you also cannot set up reminders for the events (obviously, since it's a magic subscription calendar).

Hence my rant

 

[numbersyx]

iDisk is awfully slow, I admit.

Maybe it's my imagination, though, but I swear transferring files via iDisk is faster if I do it via me.com, rather than through Finder. Does it seem faster that way for anyone else?

Definitely that way for me too. Don't know why. They need to sort that one out...

 

[wtmcgee]

It amazes me that there is no sort of rich text entry yet.

 

[Pooshka]

And still no freakin' mail rules???

Are you effin' kidding me??? My junk volume varies from 300 to 1000 messages a day!!! And they all go to inbox on my iPhone.

 

[uberamd]

And still no freakin' mail rules???

Are you effin' kidding me??? My junk volume varies from 300 to 1000 messages a day!!! And they all go to inbox on my iPhone.

Well maybe you need to do some filtering on the mail provider level, because thats clearly not right. If my inbox EVER got that way I would make a new email account.

 

[Pooshka]

Well maybe you need to do some filtering on the mail provider level

How exactly do I do that?

 

[jotwee]

Hopefully the ringtone fix works!!

Very frustrating if you have many custom ringtones assigned to
different contacts and they go to default in sync.

this already works since 3.0 is out

 

[lbjsong]

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And still no freakin' mail rules???

Are you effin' kidding me??? My junk volume varies from 300 to 1000 messages a day!!! And they all go to inbox on my iPhone.

Better make a new account on gmail today!!

 

[FilipH]

Better make a new account on gmail today!!

In my experience the Gmail spam filter works like a charm. I get a huge amount of spam, but 99% is sent directly to the junk folder. You should really give it a try.

 

[tempusfugit]

Yeh but here in Spain it is 79.00 euros ($110.79) and for $39.00 I can get my OWN domain, with 20Gb web space unlimited mail accounts, unlimited traffic etc. etc. etc.....

Webhosting is really only one dimension of mobile me.

its only cost effective if you use an iphone with it a lot.