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What Email, Calendar, Contact & Web Service Do You Use

  • MobileMe

    Votes: 22 36.7%
  • Gmail

    Votes: 38 63.3%
  • Local ISP

    Votes: 1 1.7%
  • Live, Hotmail

    Votes: 6 10.0%
  • Other

    Votes: 13 21.7%

  • Total voters
    60
  • Poll closed .

Wicked1

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Apr 13, 2009
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I have MobileMe, but I am thinking I might start looking around at other options only because MobileMe seems to be changing, and I am thinking of going to something else.

I use the Full MobileMe service right now, and I am paid up thru June of 2012, but what service do you guys use, Local ISP, Gmail, MobileMe, Other, also looking for other options that people can suggest.
 
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I have MobileMe, but I am thinking I might start looking around at other options only because MobileMe seems to be changing, and I am thinking of going to something else.

I use the Full MobileMe service right now, and I am paid up thru June of 2012, but what service do you guys use, Local ISP, Gmail, MobileMe, Other, also looking for other options that people can suggest.
I use Gmail for my mail, the Mac address book for contacts, and iCal for my calendars.
 
I use MobileMe for most things. I have a whole mac set up so it's just easy that way. I use iCal and also work Exchange calendar but it all syncs pretty simply. I also have a gmail account and all that is set up too but isnt used that often
 
MobileMe.

the cost of an exchange server would rival that of the mobileme service but without some of the software advantages. i used google for a while but i hate their contacts management system and how it constantly adds new "recently contacted contacts" to your contacts list indiscriminately and without a way to shut it off.
 
Mail = GMail
Calendar = Google Calendar
Contacts = GMail/Google Contacts

I use Nuevasync to get push email/contacts/calendar. I like the way Nuevasync handles email deletion compared to Google Sync.
 
Entourage which is part of microsoft office for the MAC for everything. Gmail is just one of many clients that syncs to entourage.
 
Have been using MobileMe for a lil bit but, IMO, not really worth the $$ you pay for it. I'm slowly migrating all my crap to Gmail/Cal/Contacts instead now.
 
Mail - MobileMe, Windows Live Hotmail
Calendar/Contacts - Google

I use Exchange with Google and Windows Live Hotmail
 
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I used to use MobileMe but switched to Gmail with Exchange. I love it, it's all free and works better than MobileMe. I had a lot of issues with MM not pushing email and/or changes to the phone. I could read mail on the web and the phone would never mark the messages as read. But Gmail does this within 2 seconds.
 
I have used mobile me since it was .mac years ago across my various macs.

It's had it's issues, sure. But it can't be beat for seamless OS integration.

Even when i've had some frustrating problems (mostly calendar related), support has been good.
 
I have MobileMe, but I am thinking I might start looking around at other options only because MobileMe seems to be changing, and I am thinking of going to something else.

I use the Full MobileMe service right now, and I am paid up thru June of 2012, but what service do you guys use, Local ISP, Gmail, MobileMe, Other, also looking for other options that people can suggest.

I use Exchange for Work email, contacts and calendar. There are issues with the calendar sync though. This usually shows up when a change is made to a single instance of a recurring appointment.

For personal I use Live and Hotmail and have set them up like Exchange accounts. It works really, really well.
 
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