Mac is now MobileMe

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[Chris DeWeese]

What is MobileMe?
MobileMe is Apple’s new Internet service for Mac, iPhone, iPod touch, and PC that takes the best of .Mac and adds many new features. With MobileMe you will continue to get services that take advantage of Mac integration such as iDisk and photo sharing from iPhoto ’08. You also get a suite of new web applications at me.com; push email, push contacts, and push calendar; and 20 GB of online storage.

For more information about MobileMe features, watch the MobileMe Guided Tour.

What happened to www.mac.com?
MobileMe has a new home at (www.me.com) where you will find a suite of web applications that have the familiar look and feel of the applications on your Mac. If you go to (www.mac.com), you will be redirected to the login page at me.com. We recommend that you update your bookmarks to .

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[Chris DeWeese]

So, my .Mac service was due to renew and I wanted to make sure it hard the proper credit card info. Using the old links, I kept getting directed to MobileMe. Once I figured out how to log in, the system took a very long time to allow me to do anything. I was miffed. All I wanted to do was check my cc# and go play with my kids. Then I saw why it took so long. Which is the reason for this post.

MobileMe is very cool. Tons of new stuff for the same or less money than last year when it was called .Mac. Now, you can access a bunch of your Mac stuff from a windows pc, or any computer for that matter, from anywhere in the world. They doubled the storage from 10G to 20G. I am presently syncrhonizing 12G's of documents for backup - mostly just because I can. I can access my web galleries and edit them remotely, I can see my iDisk from any pc, I can see all my email and contacts from any computer connected to the net. This is very cool.

I can also see my iWeb page links, but have no idea why. Perhaps it's a precursor to letting us update our iWeb pages remotely? Now THAT would be awesome! Just make sure you have some time to spare the first time you log in, though. It was worth the wait.

[Chris DeWeese]

ping

[Afronaut]

I think that is rather cool. But I can get a G-mail account and get 7 gigs for free. Store anything that I want and retrieve it from any computer or mobile device. For free.

7 Gigs....

[Chris DeWeese]

I think that is rather cool. But I can get a G-mail account and get 7 gigs for free. Store anything that I want and retrieve it from any computer or mobile device. For free.

7 Gigs....

I use Yahoo as my main/archive account. Basically, I point everything to Yahoo. Because it has no limit at all.

The 20G is for creating web sites, internet picture galleries, backing up data, ftp-types service, etc, as well as email and contacts - if you wish to use it.

[50cal Smokepole]

MobileMe? Cool. At least it's not a retread of:

[SLAP] Ow! Hey, stop that...

[Swordmaker]

.Mac is now MobileMe—PING!

Thanks to Chris DeWeese for the heads up...

.Mac > MobileMe Ping!

If you want on or off the Mac Ping List, Freepmail me.

[PugetSoundSoldier]

Heh... That was the first thing I thought of. Then I thought of this:

[Wyatt's Torch]

Have had zero success syncing my business Outlook with Mobile Me. Will not sync either way...

[bluelagoon]

How the heck do I get the MobieMe update and the configuration icon off my screen? It’s driving me nuts!! Thanks in advance. BL

[Chris DeWeese]

What screen?

[cowboyway]

The 20G is for creating web sites, internet picture galleries, backing up data, ftp-types service, etc, as well as email and contacts - if you wish to use it.

And the Push feature if you have an iPhone. I went through the MobileMe setup yesterday with my year old iPhone.

[antiRepublicrat]

Gmail won’t do the synch thing. This will synch your iPhone, iPod Touch and your Macs. The mobile devices are all push (instant update) while any Macs will synch at intervals or on demand.

[Mr. Blonde]

The interface online is about a million times better than the .Mac one was. I can’t stand the name though. I’m glad I’m not required to switch my email address to @me.com. It would be enough to make me drop the service.

[Sir_Ed]

They took away my ability to do slides.

Bums me out...

Ed