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New MobileMe Calendar Officially Launched
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The iPad requires iOS 3.2 so it'll work. My G4 iMac won't though, as it can't run SL. If there's a genuine requirement for 10.6 then I'm ok with that, but if they are just trying to force upgrades then its a bit naughty of them.
Others seeing my calendar through a browser
I'm a bit confused. Is there anyway to create a calendar, and show that calendar and its events on a web browser that I can invite other people to see?
I'd like to be able to have other non mac users be able to view some calendar events (such as my availability for meetings) without having to subscribe to my calendar.
I just want to be able to send someone a url and they can see my calendar in a browser.
Possible?
I'm a bit confused. Is there anyway to create a calendar, and show that calendar and its events on a web browser that I can invite other people to see?
I'd like to be able to have other non mac users be able to view some calendar events (such as my availability for meetings) without having to subscribe to my calendar.
I just want to be able to send someone a url and they can see my calendar in a browser.
Possible?
Thank you for the info/clarification, cvaldes.
After clicking "yes" to keeping a copy on my computer, it does indeed load faster as a web page.
I think you can by right clicking on the calendar you want to share in iCal (or in the webapp click on the share icon) and then you can get a public link and share that one with others
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That was a long wait... iCal update?
That was a long wait... iCal update?
Great.
I upgraded and now all my calendars are gone from iCal. Yes, I'm on 10.6.4. Yes, I've re-synced. Yes, I've told MobileMe to reset local calendars and replace it with calendars from MobileMe. They're fine on my iPhone and on the website, but there isn't a single thing in iCal. Firefox is happy to create a database for offline viewing, but there isn't a single scenario that I can think of where someone would want to completely avoid iCal and use Firefox/Safari HTML5 databases instead.
Phuking great. Whatever bug I've hit, there's no backout for it either.
I upgraded and now all my calendars are gone from iCal. Yes, I'm on 10.6.4. Yes, I've re-synced. Yes, I've told MobileMe to reset local calendars and replace it with calendars from MobileMe. They're fine on my iPhone and on the website, but there isn't a single thing in iCal. Firefox is happy to create a database for offline viewing, but there isn't a single scenario that I can think of where someone would want to completely avoid iCal and use Firefox/Safari HTML5 databases instead.
Phuking great. Whatever bug I've hit, there's no backout for it either.
I agree 100%. I enjoy using it, but dislike the fact I feel like I'm getting ripped off paying the "Apple Tax".
They could charge us $20 per year and still make lots of money, but $99 is simply obscene. No wonder Apple is such a cash cow.
I've never expected Apple to offer it for free, as everything Apple is premium priced.
I was disappointed it won't work with the older 10.5 (Leopard). At work, I have a DSN issue with Snow Leopard and was forced to downgrade to Leopard if I wanted to print to a network printer. I guess if I want this feature, I have to figure out my DSN issue with Snow Leopard.
I pay usually around $65 for mobile me through Amazon.
Even then I feel it's expensive.
Not so much because of lack of features. It's because of speed and reliability. My emails lag minutes or hour before I get them.
When I sent emails by iPhone simple text mails take minutes to send while internet connection is blazing fast. So it's Apple and not ATT.
Calendar syncs are random at best. On my phone it continuosly shows every event three times because I somehow have three calendars: on the iPhone, on the server and a synced one. no idea what that is.
iDisk is slow like molasses and takes often minutes to only show whats on the idisk. and its almost empty.
everything about mobile me is somehow slow and unreliable compared to my other online hosted sites. I was too busy at work to be bothered to switch my email and all that to yahoo or google but i'm still considering it.
Same thing happened to me in the beta. The calendar deletions propagated to my work machine (Outlook & Google Calendar) and the online MobileMe calendar while I was discovering the issue and trying to stop it. Lost everything.... Time Machine saved the day.
Shame they didn't figure out what caused it, apparently.
Shame they didn't figure out what caused it, apparently.
As another user said, it's possible and easy! I do it all the time. Just click the share icon next to the calendar (on the left hand side in the web app) and you can choose to share a private calendar (the viewer can make changes to your calendar) or a public calendar (it is read-only, which sounds like this is what you want). You can email them the link which stays valid until you stop sharing the calendar.
With the lack of support for older OS's, is it possible in 10.7 they will do away with Mail and iCal and move it all over to the web version only for MobileMe users?
Not unless hell freezes over. Mail and iCal are not for MobileMe subscribers exclusively, in fact they existed before MobileMe or .Mac did.
jW
I meant that on OS X you wouldn't get the option to set up mobileme on iCal/Mail, you'd be redirected to the me.com website. Other mail providers would still work as they do now.
I'm not saying it's a good idea, buit it's effectively what they've just done to people with any mac OS before 10.6. If you want to use the new mobileme, you have to use the web version on pre-Snow Leopard machines.