AppleInsider Staff
The MobileMe Gallery app (iTunes link) lets users select an album with a tap and flick back and forth through photos, pinch to zoom, or rotate into landscape view. The software also automatically stores photos that have been viewed, so they can be accessed again even without a network connection.
Friens' publicly shared content can also be accessed by choosing their name from contacts or entering their MobileMe member name. It also includes a scrolling sampler at the top that gives users access to recent photos.
Users must enter their MobileMe member name and password to see their list of published movies and photos. A MobileMe subscription is required.
The free, 0.7MB application requires iPhone OS version 3.1 or later. Features of the software, according to Apple, include:
- View your entire gallery including password protected and hidden albums
- Flick through photos and pinch to zoom in for more detail
- Rotate iPhone to see photos in landscape
- View your friends' gallery photos and movies
- Access previously viewed photos when offline
- Easily share a link to an album from iPhone
Prior to MobileMe Gallery, Apple released only four total applications on its App Store. Another, MobileMe iDisk, is also centered around the company's MobileMe service. It allows users to access their iDisk anywhere from their iPhone and view popular file types like Microsoft Office and iWork '09 documents and presentations, as well as PDFs.
The other Apple-created applications are Remote, Keynote Remote, and Texas Hold'em. They are in addition to the native applications that come built-in to the iPhone and iPod touch.
With iPhone OS 3.0, MobileMe users were given the "Find My iPhone feature, which can be used to remotely pinpoint a lost or stolen phone. MobileMe is the successor to Apple's .Mac. The service debuted in 2008.
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89 Comments
Very nice! About time, too.
And it begins...I don't like my stuff being on the "cloud", especially in a unencrypted format.
Isn't Google finally realizing the mistakes they made?Just because you have nothing to hide shouldn't mean you give up your right to privacy.
And it begins...I don't like my stuff being on the "cloud", especially in a unencrypted format.
Isn't Google finally realizing the mistakes they made?Just because you have nothing to hide shouldn't mean you give up your right to privacy.
What the hell are you on about again?
It's like Flickr.
What the hell are you on about again?
It's like Flickr.
Would you put your private photo's of your 16 year old daughter sunning on the beach in Hawaii while in her bikini on Flickr? Possibly to be photoshoped into cp and circulated on the internet?
I don't think you would.So what's protecting those photo's on MobileMe? From being hacked?
Nothing, and that's my point.Encryption of the files should at least be optional. But as always Apple, like Google, throws your privacy right out the window.
They operate from a position that "nothing can go wrong" when instead they should be operating from "lets make things as secure as possible so nothing does go wrong"
If it wasn't for Unix under OS X, it would have been pawned long ago.
Just downloaded this app. It was a bit difficult to use my Gallery from the iPhone prior to this. From my 3GS I could upload photos and videos to it, but it wasn't easy to view them or share a link to them from the iPhone. Thanks, Apple!
BTW, I wonder if the iDisk and Gallery app functionality could be consolidated into a single app? Why have two slots consumed to use the same cloud service? Just a thought.