Along with the MobileMe fixes that 10.5.6 brought along with it, Apple has updated it on the server side as well. Minor changes have been brought about for the Contacts, Calendars, Gallery, iDisk as well as the login screen.
Before you get excited, there still is no “Share File” button in iDisk that we have all longed for. The feature is still has a ‘coming soon’ status on the MobileMe iDisk feature page. Oh how I long to send those huge attachments, and just imagine the look on the face of the one who finds out how awesome my way of sending email attachments is.
Nevertheless, I’m happy that Apple is constantly working on MobileMe. The detailed support document mentions features like “adds shortcut for creating new contact”, and “Long event titles now appear properly in Month view” when it comes to the Calendars. They have also included a “Tell a friend” link for MobileMe web galleries, although we’re still lacking photo comments to make this a Flickr alternative. Check out the full document for whole list.
Unfortunately though, I could not test any of this, as MobileMe refused to log in (for the first time in months) and repeatedly told my Safari and Firefox browsers that Internet Explorer 7 is not fully supported. The desktop features work just fine though.
[Thanks Dan for the link up!]
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Looking forward to seeing the full iDisk offered but I do recommend that everyone and I do mean everyone sign up for the free 2GB of Dropbox space. iDisk and Dropbox are two different paths to the same goal…easy online storage but Dropbox is the honor roll student while iDisk is the truant student.
I will probably co-exist with both of them.
iDisk should best be regarded as part of MobileMe. For me I just need some basic online file storage and iDisk performs really well for that. It syncs my documents, and I have access to all my files on the go including my iPhone and Windows machines. I haven’t checked out Dropbox yet, but from what I’ve heard it seems like a really good online storage system.
I have tried free alternative but having to set up about 7 different services for the same thing is cumbersome. I use the email, contacts, calendar and bookmarks in MobileMe to keep my iPhone, iMac and MacBook in sync. Webmail is painful though so I have it forwarded to GMail as well so when I don’t have access to my iPhone or Mail.app I can just open GMail instead. iDisk is also troublesome which is why I use Dropbox. The intergration with Finder is amazing, it is quicker, syncs great, works Windows/Mac/Linux and free for 2GB.