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Tuesday, December 23, 2008, 12:20 pm
Apple rolls out more MobileMe fixes
Apple this week quietly updated its MobileMe internet service with a new round of bug fixes and enhancements targeting Contacts, Calendar, Gallery, iDisk, and more.The improvements were detailed in a support document published to the company's website Monday and include the following:
Contacts
- Searching for contacts in a large address book (more than 1000 contacts) is faster and no longer results in a "slow script" browser alert message
- Exported vCards with multi-line addresses or notes can now be imported into the Mac OS X Address Book
- Adds keyboard shortcut to create a new contact
- Additional formatting options for European phone numbers are now supported
Calendar
- Adds sorting of To Do items by calendar or title
- Long event titles now appear properly in Month view
Gallery
- Updated "Tell a friend" email message
- Resolves an issue related to setting a new album's key photo
iDisk
- Files and folder names that contain Japanese language characters now display properly on the web
Account
- Hosting of iWeb pages can be configured for personal domains ending in ".eu", ".ax", ".tl", ".gw", ".kp", ".rs" or ".su"
- Family Member accounts now display the accurate renewal/expiration date
- Resolves an issue that prevented some members from using an activation key (MobileMe box) to renew a subscription
Login
- "Keep me logged in for two weeks" checkbox now works reliably
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I currently have a large file I'd like to send to a high ranking potential client, who doesn't have a lot of time to waste futzing with passwords and waiting for countdowns before he can download a large file.
I have mobile me, but the send file as a link from iDisk doesn't work, and I really don't want to send him through the process of downloading the idisk helper, installing it, etc. I really wish they'd get that one fixed, and if anyone has any recs for something that would be almost as simple and pretty inexpensive (since I probably only need it this one time) I'm all ears.
YES!!! My OCD made me click it even though it didn't work. Now I don't feel like they're mocking me every time I login.
Obviously it wasn't "quietly" updated, since there's a support document detailing the changes, which were also mentioned on the MobileMe news page. Why do tech writers feel a need to imply that Apple is sneaking around behind our backs fixing things, as if they were afraid to admit that they had ever made a mistake? Clearly this is not the case.
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Originally Posted by elliots11 
I currently have a large file I'd like to send to a high ranking potential client, who doesn't have a lot of time to waste futzing with passwords and waiting for countdowns before he can download a large file.
I have mobile me, but the send file as a link from iDisk doesn't work, and I really don't want to send him through the process of downloading the idisk helper, installing it, etc. I really wish they'd get that one fixed, and if anyone has any recs for something that would be almost as simple and pretty inexpensive (since I probably only need it this one time) I'm all ears.
I currently have a large file I'd like to send to a high ranking potential client, who doesn't have a lot of time to waste futzing with passwords and waiting for countdowns before he can download a large file.
I have mobile me, but the send file as a link from iDisk doesn't work, and I really don't want to send him through the process of downloading the idisk helper, installing it, etc. I really wish they'd get that one fixed, and if anyone has any recs for something that would be almost as simple and pretty inexpensive (since I probably only need it this one time) I'm all ears.
This feature was scrapped last minute when they released mobileme and hasn't been added back yet. I am looking for this feature to be implemented as well... but it seems it isn't at the top of the priority list.
@elliots11 - have you looked into drop.io? Seems like it might work for your needs; though there is a 100MB file size limit to utilize the free service.
I mostly use the webmail component of the MobileMe suite of apps, and it drives me crazy how slow it is. Compare the amount of time it takes to reply to an email using Gmail vs. MobileMe; it's simply ridiculous.
Sure, MobileMe *looks* appreciably nicer, but who cares about that when what I mostly end up seeing is the "Loading..." animation. I also still get way too many random timeout messages.
I honestly expected the speed of the webmail client to improve once Eddy Cue took over the reigns... hasn't happened yet from what I can tell. Has to be embarrassing for the company.
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Originally Posted by wealthychef
So now when will To-Do's show up on the iPhone? We have to-do's in iCal on the desktop, To-Do's in iCal on the Web, iCal sync between desktop, web and phone, and no To-Do list on the iPhone. I'm so perplexed by this because the To-Do application is ridiculously simple and there is no excuse for this.
So now when will To-Do's show up on the iPhone? We have to-do's in iCal on the desktop, To-Do's in iCal on the Web, iCal sync between desktop, web and phone, and no To-Do list on the iPhone. I'm so perplexed by this because the To-Do application is ridiculously simple and there is no excuse for this.
great point, this should have been there day one, with also a project management ability
todo list on iphone and mobleme.
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Originally Posted by RyanW
@elliots11 - have you looked into drop.io? Seems like it might work for your needs; though there is a 100MB file size limit to utilize the free service.
I mostly use the webmail component of the MobileMe suite of apps, and it drives me crazy how slow it is. Compare the amount of time it takes to reply to an email using Gmail vs. MobileMe; it's simply ridiculous.
Sure, MobileMe *looks* appreciably nicer, but who cares about that when what I mostly end up seeing is the "Loading..." animation. I also still get way too many random timeout messages.
I honestly expected the speed of the webmail client to improve once Eddy Cue took over the reigns... hasn't happened yet from what I can tell. Has to be embarrassing for the company.
@elliots11 - have you looked into drop.io? Seems like it might work for your needs; though there is a 100MB file size limit to utilize the free service.
I mostly use the webmail component of the MobileMe suite of apps, and it drives me crazy how slow it is. Compare the amount of time it takes to reply to an email using Gmail vs. MobileMe; it's simply ridiculous.
Sure, MobileMe *looks* appreciably nicer, but who cares about that when what I mostly end up seeing is the "Loading..." animation. I also still get way too many random timeout messages.
I honestly expected the speed of the webmail client to improve once Eddy Cue took over the reigns... hasn't happened yet from what I can tell. Has to be embarrassing for the company.
couldn't have said it better myself. the webmail client is an embarassment. luckily I only need to use it at work, I use my phone and mac at home to send mail at any other time. the speed, random timeouts, errors, ect... is awful.
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Originally Posted by elliots11
I currently have a large file I'd like to send to a high ranking potential client, who doesn't have a lot of time to waste futzing with passwords and waiting for countdowns before he can download a large file.
I have mobile me, but the send file as a link from iDisk doesn't work, and I really don't want to send him through the process of downloading the idisk helper, installing it, etc. I really wish they'd get that one fixed, and if anyone has any recs for something that would be almost as simple and pretty inexpensive (since I probably only need it this one time) I'm all ears.
I currently have a large file I'd like to send to a high ranking potential client, who doesn't have a lot of time to waste futzing with passwords and waiting for countdowns before he can download a large file.
I have mobile me, but the send file as a link from iDisk doesn't work, and I really don't want to send him through the process of downloading the idisk helper, installing it, etc. I really wish they'd get that one fixed, and if anyone has any recs for something that would be almost as simple and pretty inexpensive (since I probably only need it this one time) I'm all ears.
Too bad the guy is not on a Mac, he would be able to access your Public Folder right from the Finder. Since it sounds like he is on Windows, he can access your publc folder with any web browser:
MobileMe iDisk Help: Connecting to a MobileMe members Public folder
If you have a Mac or Windows computer, you can connect to a MobileMe members Public iDisk folder using a web browser. If you have a Mac, you can also connect to someones Public folder using Mac OS X.
After you connect, you can see, copy, and, depending on the access privileges chosen, add and remove files.
To connect to a MobileMe members Public folder, do one of the following:
From a Mac or Windows computer, open your web browser and type public.me.com/[MobileMeMemberName] in the browsers address field. If youre asked for a name and password, type public in the Name field, and then type the password in the Password field.
If youre using Mac OS X version 10.4.11 or later, in the Finder choose Go > iDisk, and then choose Other Users Public Folder from the submenu. Type the member name of the person whose Public folder you want to open in the Member Name field and then click Connect. If youre asked for a name and password, make sure public appears in the Name field, and then type the password in the Password field.
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Originally Posted by wealthychef
So now when will To-Do's show up on the iPhone? We have to-do's in iCal on the desktop, To-Do's in iCal on the Web, iCal sync between desktop, web and phone, and no To-Do list on the iPhone. I'm so perplexed by this because the To-Do application is ridiculously simple and there is no excuse for this.
So now when will To-Do's show up on the iPhone? We have to-do's in iCal on the desktop, To-Do's in iCal on the Web, iCal sync between desktop, web and phone, and no To-Do list on the iPhone. I'm so perplexed by this because the To-Do application is ridiculously simple and there is no excuse for this.
I'm with you on this. As much as I love my iPhone, my old Palm Treo 650 was years ahead (literally) of Apple in this function.
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So now when will To-Do's show up on the iPhone? We have to-do's in iCal on the desktop, To-Do's in iCal on the Web, iCal sync between desktop, web and phone, and no To-Do list on the iPhone. I'm so perplexed by this because the To-Do application is ridiculously simple and there is no excuse for this.