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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



21 Comments

wealthychef 16 Years · 48 comments

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.

elliots11 16 Years · 289 comments

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.

pdiddy 17 Years · 27 comments

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.

stormchild 20 Years · 104 comments

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.

federmoose 16 Years · 195 comments

Quote:
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.

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.