Mobileme

How do you share photos on your iPhone?

By Rene Ritchie, Friday, Apr 23, 2010 a 1:36 pm

The iPhone has a built in camera and with its always-on internet connectivity, it's a great way to share your pictures with friends, families, colleagues, and the world.

How do you use the calendar on your iPhone?

By Rene Ritchie, Monday, Apr 19, 2010 a 1:29 pm

The are several ways to use the calendar on your iPhone, including syncing with other devices (including computers) and with the cloud (via a variety of services). You can also keep just one global calendar for everything, or separate ones for work, school, hobbies, family, training, etc.

iPhone 4: Notes Sync for IMAP

By Rene Ritchie, Friday, Apr 9, 2010 a 4:07 pm

When you add an IMAP-based email account (including MobileMe and Gmail) to iPhone 4, in addition to the previous options you now get a toggle for "Sync Notes".

Notes syncing was famously listed as an iPhone 1.0 feature but then mysteriously vanished only to return in iPhone 3.0 as an iTunes-limited option (i.e., not push or over-the-air).

Apple Developing iGroups Social Networking App? -- Patent Watch

By Rene Ritchie, Friday, Mar 19, 2010 a 9:12 am

According to Patently Apple, Apple is laying the foundations for a potential iGroups app that would allow like-minded iPhone (or iPod touch and iPad users, presumably) to set up MobileMe-powered social networks at events like WWDC (Apple's yearly World Wide Developers Conference).

Find My iPhone Working on iPhone Safari, iTunes Preview Categories Now Working on Web

By Rene Ritchie, Friday, Feb 19, 2010 a 2:12 pm

Apple has changed MobileMe's me.com site, previously inaccessible from iPhone or iPod touch Safari, to not only allow access to Find My iPhone, but to offer help in setting up accounts and getting additional apps. iTunes Preview, meanwhile, has duplicated even more of the media and app browsing experience on the web by adding support for categories.

QuickOffice, Box.net Updated -- Now Play Great Together

By Rene Ritchie, Wednesday, Feb 10, 2010 a 10:20 am

QuickOffice and Box.net both announced updates recently that work together to provide more seamless access to documents on your iPhone, from the cloud.

QuickOffice 3.0 [$9.99 - iTunes link] lets you access documents stored on Box.net, as well as other cloud-based repositories like MobileMe, Google Docs, and Dropbox. It's also a free update for existing users.

MobileMe Having Post-Christmas Blues -- WebApp, iChat, Prefs Down, Down, Down!

By Rene Ritchie, Sunday, Dec 27, 2009 a 5:33 pm

According to MobileMe System Status, Mac Preferences, Windows Control Panel, iChat, and the www.me.com WebApps are down for the count. (Just how hard did they hit the eggnog over the last few days?)

Still, they're keeping some pretense of holiday spirit, or irony:

All other MobileMe services are online and fully operational

Let us know how badly you're affected, and when things start going smoothly for you again.

MobileMe Mail Down

By Rene Ritchie, Tuesday, Nov 10, 2009 a 1:57 pm

MobileMe is currently down for some via client (Mail on Mac and iPhone -- count me in), and the Web (working fine for me). Maybe they were upset we gave GoogleSync all the love this morning?

Let us know how it's working for you, and we'll update when it's back online for everyone.

MobileMe Media Sync

By Rene Ritchie, Tuesday, Oct 20, 2009 a 7:02 am

Synchronization of Media State Across Multiple Devices, one of the latest patents filed by Apple, aims to use MobileMe to make sure if you start watching a movie in iTunes or on the AppleTV, then switch to your iPhone, you're at the exact same place in the movie (and back again) -- with no USB sync required.

Apple "Improves" MobileMe, Find my iPhone, Updates iDisk Public Folder

By Rene Ritchie, Friday, Oct 9, 2009 a 12:42 pm

Apple's MobileMe News page has posted two updates today, one on recent MobileMe service improvements, including direct access to Find my iPhone, and the other on iDisk public folder updates.

First up, the service improvements: