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.]
@HughB
I lived through the beef boycott. I saw it on TV. I heard the reports. That’s where I got the story.
Here are some facts that may explain some erroneous information on my part.
I think I was in high school. I dont think I was in jr. high and I dont think I was in college. That’s how I came up with the dates. Therefore, it would be 1967-1970.
I may have mispoken that it was nationwide. It may have been Los Angeles or California only. Afterall, I was a high school kid and my first love was not local/national/world news. But I remember the beef boycott.
Sorry if my first post had errors. I hope this post clarifies the facts as I know them. May explain why you and yours dont remember it.
Bottom line, want to reduce prices? Just boycott the product. Works everytime.
@HughB
I found this link. It might cover what I tried to describe with regards to beef, housewives, boycotts, and 1970!!!!
http://www.springerlink.com/content/l2202mk5u551k1q2/
BR,
maclouie
@Jason
“Why would anyone pay for MobileMe, which isn’t very good, when Google provides a free service.”
See below. Google does not provide all that MM does.
@Joke
“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.”
Call me crazy and I’m inclined to call you ignorant. If you don’t need all that MM does, then you’d be crazy to pay for it. But for my photography business, the ability to post my clients’ photos to secure galleries straight out of Aperture and update changed photos with a single click – that alone is worth the price of the whole package.
I also use MM for syncing contacts, calendars, Safari bookmarks & mail rules among my desktop, laptop & iPhone, hosting my website, email, automated online backup (Apple’s Backup app is very nice), and sharing files within my company.
Yeah, I could cobble together a partial solution with free services from Google, Drop Box and others. But, the convenience and integration of MM is cheap at the asking price.
@Majikthize
ditto.
I just because a MM user and it rocks! Everything is synced on all my devices and is available on-line and my wife doesn’t even know it. In other words, it works for her transparently. She maintains the family photos on her laptop and I get to see them or share them anywhere I am anytime. The new photos get added to the gallery without her thinking about it.
And contacts are sync’d on ALL devices with pictures.
Super Cool!
MM is mmmmmgood! Cheap with family plan and we all keep in synch.
@HughB
OK, so it was before I got married.
Here is the news article from 1973. Meat industry feel affects of housewife boycott:
http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2245&dat=19730402&id=qRozAAAAIBAJ&sjid=2TIHAAAAIBAJ&pg=6598,2901816
For those that think MM is too expensive, do what housewives do. But I guess you already are so what’s the beef?
The price is reasonable; wish the mail app on the iPhone had more bells & whistles tho
The whiners are screaming again. Free, free, free. Why should a premium service not have a fee attached to it? I suppose I wouldn’t mind a discount for long-term users, mind you.
” width=”19″ height=”19″ alt=”wink” style=”border:0;” /> But I most certainly do not want a free – ie an ugly, distracting, ad- supported site. Moreover, all the features that go into MobileMe need to be included when one determines the cost of the product. This is far more then merely a fine a web-based e-mail client.
Common Apple update the iCal sync to mobile me so you can select individual calendars or iPhone users/ computers so you can get a shared calendar and not everyones personal calendar.
Maclouie
I went to your website and read the article. Here is what it says was effect was the boycotts:
“the boycott efforts and their inability to have more than a temporary remedial effect on the retail pricing practices which prompted the boycott actions. The paper ends with a discussion of the demise of the price-increase boycotts, a discussion which draws heavily on the changing role of American women in the late 20th century.”
Small local boycotts with no long term effects if any toward prices. Your remember wrong son.
@Majikthize
You nailed it. Could not have said it better. $8 a month is pretty cheap in my mind. My wife’s iPhone was lost (stolen probably) and we tracked that sucker down to a car in a parking lot. That alone was worth a years’ price. One embarrased kid, priceless.
@Ad-free MobileMe
You are sooo incorrect. MobileMe is NOT a premium service. It is substandard in almost every possible way. Mail is awful, iDisk is pathetic. There are many, many better options. MobileMe is for lemmings that simply do not know quality.