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Apple Focusing on MobileMe Improvements in Latest 10.5.6 Builds
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I see "ATS" in that list. Did they Fix ATS Server now?
I had to downgrad a machine to 10.5.0 just to be able to use PDF files again.
Sounds normal to me. MS Exchange server is the only one I know of that does that. I have a Palm Centro running exchange (for work), gmail as imap, and me as imap. I don't use me that much (want everything said and done before I trust it for my emails), only for the webhosting part right now.
However for my gmail - I can read it on my mac and through the webmail portion and it updates correctly. However on my phone, it does not. I can delete everything from my gmail and the next time I sync my phone - it is on my phone.
I think the issue may be that once it leaves the email server, the phone device is updatng against the carrier server - in my case sprint.
Surely you must be joking?! What do u have that is being constantly changed? Seems excessive to me.
I think the point is that, for most people, unless backups are done frequently and regularly, they tend to become very infrequent and irregular. So when a failure does occur and a backup is required it's likely to be well out of date.
Well, I don't wanna think about if I changed somthing important or not. I like having the peace of mind, knowing that if I drop or lose my Macbook, the last backup is when I left the house. Also if you back up often, the backup process doesn't take that long.
I don't want to be that on guy crying in the subway because he just dropped his laptop, it doesn't go on again and and he's afraid for his data.
A nice additional feature for TIme Machine would be a secondary backup drive. Imagine you do the normal backup before leaving the house. Then you travel around and make some changes. You plug in a USB drive and it backs up only the things that have changed since the last big backup. This way, you can do backups on the go, too and the secondary backup driv can be much smaller than your system drive. Even a flash thumb drive would do the trick.
I signed up with MobileMe a few days ago because I wanted to use the iDisk. It looks like I'll be searching for a different online hard drive. iDisk is painfully slow. I'm on a FIOS 50/20 connection and it takes 30-60 seconds just to upload a little 17KB document. No thank you! When I try to upload videos or photo archives of, say, 50-100MBs, I'm looking at well over an hour!
With my upload speed I've been able to upload 150MBs in 60 seconds to other services. Maybe MobileMe's syncing service is good enough. But, since I don't want it for that I'll pass on MobileMe. I like the idea of the iDisk being integrated into the OS but until they can offer a online storage solution that isn't ridiculously slow, I'll pass.
With my upload speed I've been able to upload 150MBs in 60 seconds to other services. Maybe MobileMe's syncing service is good enough. But, since I don't want it for that I'll pass on MobileMe. I like the idea of the iDisk being integrated into the OS but until they can offer a online storage solution that isn't ridiculously slow, I'll pass.
I think I may try it out once the update comes out... My wish is that they would allow people to use their own domain for email... I guess I could setup an auto forward to .me
I tried backing-up my important files to MobileMe, when I took the machine in for repair.
iDisk would not connect in the store--the Genius shrugged and then suggested that she burn the files to DVD.
I have used Time Machine. But perhaps only once per week. I'm obviously doing it daily now, as I'm a student and need to back up my notes frequently.
iDisk would not connect in the store--the Genius shrugged and then suggested that she burn the files to DVD.
I have used Time Machine. But perhaps only once per week. I'm obviously doing it daily now, as I'm a student and need to back up my notes frequently.
for me and for what I use MM for (up to date sync of contacts, events, and mail for starters) it worth 28 cents a day. I use backup.app to idisk for nightly backups of my documents and such. The iphoto intergration to the gallery is worth the money alone. It's a technologically advanced site that Noone I've seen has. Sure it has it's flaws, but it's come a long way from it's rocky start. It's headsand shoulders more functional than .mac ever wanted to be. And this is all coming from someone that has had issues with my data (contacts and evnts) disappear periodically. Mobile me support has been fantastic and very diligent to identify and fix the problem for me. There is so much potential for MM to be great and it will get there. I just renewed.
I first bought a .Mac family account via eBay almost a year before MobileMe was released for $99, and it had enough issues of its own. Then when MM was released it was a fiasco. However, after 3 free months it has improved enough so that I renewed (single, not family) via eBay for $32; there is no way I would have renewed at $99, and the rest of my family gave up on it long ago. For $32 I consider it worth the price; for $99 it is a complete joke.
EDIT: BTW, one of the most touted features of MM is Push email on the iPhone, but it wastes battery so fast that I never use it. I can get 3-5 days of battery without Push; enabling Push drops that to about 1-1.5 days. To me it is not worth it, since I don't get that much email on my phone (or even use the phone all that much for that matter).
EDIT: BTW, one of the most touted features of MM is Push email on the iPhone, but it wastes battery so fast that I never use it. I can get 3-5 days of battery without Push; enabling Push drops that to about 1-1.5 days. To me it is not worth it, since I don't get that much email on my phone (or even use the phone all that much for that matter).
For me, .Mac was wonderful for its hap-hazard syncing and web hosting. Other than that it was a rip-off. iDisk was garbage to use on your own Mac let alone someone else's.
Once MM came out it fixed the iDisk at the expense of the webmail, but now.... it's so so.
I wouldn't trade it for any alternative, and it's worth the $99 if you make full use of the features.
Once MM came out it fixed the iDisk at the expense of the webmail, but now.... it's so so.
I wouldn't trade it for any alternative, and it's worth the $99 if you make full use of the features.