New navigation on Me.com
Now when you go to me.com you’ll see two persistent navigation features at the top of every page: a cloud icon on the left, and your name on the right. Clicking the cloud icon (or using the key combination of Shift-Esc) opens a new application switcher which lets you move to any other MobileMe web application from the one you’re currently using. Clicking your name on the right opens a menu you can use to visit your account settings, access help, or sign out.
New MobileMe Mail now available to all members
The all-new MobileMe Mail at me.com is now out of beta and available to all members.
Here’s a summary of what’s new in the Mail web application, including a couple of new features Apple has added since the beta went live:
• Widescreen and compact views. When reading your mail at me.com, the new widescreen view lets you see more of each message with less scrolling. Choose compact view to hide your folders or classic view to see more of your message list.
• Rules to keep your email organized everywhere. Mail rules help you reduce inbox clutter by automatically filing messages into folders you select ahead of time. Set them up at me.com, and your rules organize your incoming email on the web and everywhere else — on your iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Mac, and PC.
• Single-click archiving. Click the Archive button and the selected message is quickly filed into the Archive folder where it’s always available for future reference.
• Formatting toolbar. You can create great-looking email messages using formatting buttons to bold or italicize text, change font color, insert images, and more. You can even create formatted web links to hide long URLs.
• Faster performance. Mail at me.com loads your inbox and messages faster. And with interface refinements such as the ability to scroll through your entire inbox without having to manually click to load the next set of messages, you’ll be able to work more efficiently.
• Increased security with SSL. With MobileMe Mail, accessing your email on the web is more secure than ever. Your inbox is protected to prevent anyone from eavesdropping on your webmail. As always, you receive SSL protection when you use your MobileMe Mail account on your iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Mac, and PC.
• Support for external email addresses (new since the beta). Reading all your email in one place is easy with MobileMe Mail. You can receive email from another service by having the email forwarded to your me.com address.* And when you reply to a message using webmail, you can choose to send it from the address it was sent to, or from your MobileMe account.
• Improved junk mail filtering (new since the beta). MobileMe Mail places suspected spam messages directly in the Junk folder. If you see an email that you actually want, click the “Not Junk” button on me.com. MobileMe moves the message to your Inbox and makes sure that messages from that sender are not sent to your Junk folder again.
• To use the new MobileMe Mail, just sign in to your account at me.com.
Find My iPhone app now available
The Find My iPhone app is now available as a free download from the App Store.
If you lose your iPhone or iPad while on the go, simply install the Find My iPhone app on any other iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch to find it. Sign in with your member name and password to locate your missing device on a map and have it display a message or play a sound. You can even remotely lock the missing device to protect your privacy, or wipe it to permanently delete all of your data if you think that it won’t be returned. The app will automatically sign you out after 15 minutes of inactivity or you can manually sign out at any time.
In addition to the new app, the Find My iPhone web application on me.com now displays your device location on a full-screen map. Simply click the device on the map to reveal the full set of Find My iPhone actions.
To download the new Find My iPhone app for your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch, visit the App Store. To use Find My iPhone on your Mac or PC, go to me.com/find. As a reminder, be sure to set up MobileMe and Find My iPhone on all the devices you want to locate.
More info via Apple’s MobileMe News here.
[Attribution: The Register. Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Lava_Head_UK” for the heads up.]
Has anyone noticed how much more snappy the MobileMe web interface is with the update? Especially Mail. It’s finally up to a speed that I can deal with in my Safari Web Browser.
I with you guys. I would rather pay. I hate ads and MobileMe lets me create iWeb pages and host pictures in a beautiful ad free way. If it didn’t do what I wanted I wouldn’t pay for it an I would start designing a program that did the things I wanted that weren’t in MobileMe. I’m satisfied and I like the new layout, looks sharp.
None of these updates mean much unless the uploading to mobile me is as fast as Dropbox… or faster.
If you shop both Amazon and eBay, you can get it for close to half price.
My last renewal only cost me $52!
Does anybody know, if Mail in MobileMe is still powered by Suns Massaging Server or if Apple has changed the “technology in the cloud” to their own Mail server software in Snow Leopard?
Currently I have my email domain forwarded to Gmail, which automatically archives everything and then forwards it to my Mobile Me Inbox. Gmail acts as my spam filter and a backup for my email and MobileMe is what I do my day to day emailing from. Personally I like MobileMe because it allows me to sync all my settings across multiple Macs, as well as the other elements that sync, plus it’s easy for my family as well.
I like the rules thing, but I wish it could be tied in with Mail.app and rules synced across all services. When I played with the beta I couldn’t implement all my custom rules either, which made it a little useless. That may have changed now though.
Been a member since 2001, well worth the money in my opinion.
iDisk is incredibly slow here in the UK using Finder, but it is VERY fast using a client like CyberDuck or Transmit.
Tech support for MobileMe is first class. Every time I’ve had a problem I’ve managed to talk to an expert online and had the problem fixed.
Calendar/Contact/Notes (iOS 4) syncing is brilliant, never failed me.
I think it’s worth every penny.
I just want more web storage. The 20 gb isn’t enough for all the photos and movies I like to share with the family.
I’m still upset at Apple promising .mac email would always remain free and then not only charging for it, but not grandfathering in existing accounts.
Meanwhile, most of the services MobileMe offers can be found for free, and in some cases, better elsewhere.
The only feature I really want now is the Find my iPhone feature, but $99 a year is too much for that.
Are we supposed to be able to access Me.com thru our iPads? I always get the page that asks me to set up an account. Funny thing is….it’s been set up for awhile. Same happens with my iPhone. Never really been able to access MM on either device. Any thoughts? What should my settings be on the iPad and/or iPhone? I thought i had everything correct and it was on Apples side……
I have been a subscriber since 2003 and have always been very pleased with customer service when I had an issue or two. I’m with the others no spam ever, no ads and for $99.00 or less wherever you purchase it I find it a good value. I like Apple, their products and equally their exceptional customer service which to me is priceless.
People just love things FREEEEEEE!
They really don’t mind having their privacy BUTTRAPED DAILY…
as long ad it’s FREE
@Harper101,
You can only access Find my iPhone/iPad through Safari on an iPad or iPhone, the idea being you setup the Mail, Contacts and Calendar Apps on your iDevice (in Settings/Mail, Contacts, Calendars) to access the features on the web interface.
You guys who say you’d rather pay for this service are crazy. MobileMe is not worth 99 dollars…not even 50 with a discount. Comparing paying MobileMe to a house or car? Childish. The service is terrible for 99. Get over it.
Here’s a sure way to reduce the price of Apple products:
STOP BUYING THEM.
Guaranteed the prices will drop.
My favorite example is when housewives thought the price of ground beef was too high in the 60’s/70’s and all American housewives stopped buying beef. Guess what. Prices came back down.
I love capitalism – it’s magical.
Now I WOULD pay for this service if it was any good. But it isn’t. Sad.
BTW, the only entity that will raise prices when demand decreases is the government. Example: LAX parking fees after 9-11. This is what happens when you have a monopoly which is what the government is. Competition/capitalism is good.
For me, there are two over riding features.
Galleries/iWeb publishing. I can write HTML and Javascript, but I really don’t want to. My motto: “Easy is good!” Making web pages and photo galleries is so easy. Saves me gobs of time.
2- iDisk
A few years ago, I spent 8 months in Spain writing. I would have been in constant terror of having my computer stolen and losing all that work, but for iDisk. Twice a day backups to the cloud and I could rest in peace knowing that, even if the worst happened, that work would not be lost.
Unfortunately, my daughter now has my MBP at college so I have my old Mac Pro G5. The syncing feature is so pathetically slow that I have taken it off auto and only sync manually.
Recently I have taken to using dropbox to hold works in progress because the syncing is instantaneous. When I get my new MBP however, I am sure al will be fine again.
Overall – I think that many people overlook iDisk. If you have anything that you really do not want to lose, then you should be using it.
“I agree that I’d rather pay $99/year than have ads.”
A-men. There is plenty of free services out there for people who don’t want to pay 99 bucks a year. Plus, I always find MM for 60-65 bucks on Amazon.
Funny how people would be screaming at the top of their lungs, the CIA was spying on their email account. They actually wouldn’t sell that info.
But if Gooooooogle does it and sells that info to anyone with buck…. NOOOOO PROBLEM!
Everything is overpriced in the eyes of a true cheapskate.
I don’t mind that it’s a pay service, but I do wish it was worth $99.
iDisk without an FTP client is still a joke.
Sounds like Apple was “felling our pain” when their prototype phone was lost. A nice touch to offer that great panic app. free to everyone. Thank you Apple. We all forget our phones somewhere at some point, or they get stolen.
Now when the App gets so detailed that it shows me which room of my house I left it in, in which pants pocket, THAT will be nice.
@Maclouie
“My favorite example is when housewives thought the price of ground beef was too high in the 60’s/70’s and all American housewives stopped buying beef. Guess what. Prices came back down.”
What? I an 70 years old. I asked my wife if this happened. She said she could not remember it either. So she called 7 of her close friends, and none of them could recall such a thing. Tried searching on Google. Could you provide us with where you got such a story?
Hey busy
Apple has “felled” my pain since the first 128 Mac back in 1984. And it still does today. AAPL too.