MobileMe Web Calendar Adds Alerts

[MacRumors]

Apple yesterday announced that it has upgraded its MobileMe Calendar web application to support alerts reminding users of upcoming events.

The new MobileMe Calendar web application now includes the ability to set and edit alerts to remind you of upcoming events. Like the calendar alerts you can already set on iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Mac, and PC (with Outlook), they will be displayed on whichever device you're using to remind you that an event is about to start. You will also receive the alerts on the web at me.com as long as you have the Calendar web application opened in a browser window or tab, even if you are viewing another web page.

Apple officially launched a revamped version of MobileMe Calendar in mid-October after several months of beta testing.

Article Link: MobileMe Web Calendar Adds Alerts

 

[roadbloc]

Oh yippee. Who doesn't use iCal or Outlook unless on a public computer?

 

[John.B]

Requires the updated version of the me.com Calendar. I keep meaning to upgrade since I finally meet all the prereqs, but so many people had issues when they first rolled this out that I just haven't budgeted the time (to fix what it might screw up in my calendards) to get this done.

roadbloc, I see what you mean, but it would be nice to be able to add an event on a friend's computer and still be able to get the alert on my iPhone. Right now I can create an event on me.com but the actual alert has to be set up from my iPhone (or from Calendar on my Mac).

 

[Cr1]

Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 4_2_1 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/533.17.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.2 Mobile/8C148 Safari/6533.18.5)

You can't set custom alarms like in iCal. You only get a few options on mobile me and on iOS devices.

 

[shartypants]

I never use the web interface for MobileMe, but its nice to see them polishing it in the event I ever do

 

[Doctor Q]

By coincidence, I set my first MobileMe calendar event alert just yesterday. I was adding events for 2011 to my calendar and I decided to specify an alert, not sure if that meant simply that it would sync with iCal on my Mac and pass the alert instructions along. Now I know that I'll get alerts in MobileMe too.

I wonder what happens if you are not logged into MobileMe at the time the alert should be sent but you log in after that and before the event itself. Do you get all pending alerts when you log in?

 

[batchtaster]

If only they would fix URLs in events/appointments; iCal supports them, MobileMe does not.

 

[John.B]

If only they would fix URLs in events/appointments; iCal supports them, MobileMe does not.

http://www.apple.com/feedback/mobileme.html

I'll bet the only reason these most recent updates happened was because people complained about where me.com was deficient. Make you voice heard, we'll all benefit.

 

[sk4prez2020]

RE: Updates

Glad to see they are making improvements finally. I don't think that Mobile Me is worth the fee now that the "Find My iPhone" feature is free.

 

[turtle777]

Caution: the new Calendar requires iOS 4 on the iPhone.

To make it work with old iPhones running iOS 3.x, see here: http://meandmymac.net/1040/sort-out-broken-mobileme-calendar-sync-for-ios-3-1-3/

-t