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Apple Details Recent Enhancements to MobileMe

Wednesday February 25, 2009 8:17 am PST by Eric Slivka

Apple today posted a MobileMe news article referring to a new new support document detailing recent enhancements to MobileMe.

Mail
- Compose window address selector shows all email addresses for contacts, not just home and work addresses.
- Newly added email addresses to Contacts appear in the compose window selector without having to logout and login.
- Improved printing of HTML formatted messages.

Contacts
- vCard export supports all text fields.
- Improved results when searching with both first and last names.
- Improved Japanese name ordering.

Calendar
- Faster start time when accessing Calendar for the first time.
- Faster performance when switching between day/week/month views.
- Calendar now retains your last view settings, such as day, week, or month view, as well as showing or hiding the To Do panel.

Gallery
- Faster loading of Gallery home page for visitors.

Login
- MobileMe login has new design featuring news updates.

The tweaks follow several recent updates to MobileMe, including the addition of file sharing and the release of a new version of MobileMe Control Panel for Windows that enables faster syncing contacts and calendars with Outlook.
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derryquinn
39 months ago
Nice to see it is being improved, however certain things such as "Faster loading of Gallery home page for visitors." makes you wonder why this wasn't as fast as possible before... did anyone used to have trouble connecting to .Mac galleries "back in the day"? I always found them incredibly slow. Are MobileMe's any better? I haven't used one yet.

The new page looks a lot nicer, I didn't like the other one, it looked kinda... bland, and while this is very similar, for once, more text makes it look nicer.
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rachaface
39 months ago
does anyone know if you can now log in on internet explorer? i wish i could avoid it, but the school computers take an extra 5 or 6 minutes to load in firefox when the computer starts up, and i just dont have the time between classes to log into my iDisk on firefox when MSIE is available instantly.
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samh004
39 months ago
I guess a faster gallery might also be a feature of Safari 4, rather than MobileMe. Like the new front page, looking forward to them adding a few new apps at some point, giving me something I'm missing, but don't know it yet.
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longofest
39 months ago

Nice to see it is being improved, however certain things such as "Faster loading of Gallery home page for visitors." makes you wonder why this wasn't included befor...


They had to get the product out of the door. If you take the approach that it should be flawless on the initial launch, then you will never launch because you will always be tweaking and refining.

That being said, it should at least WORK when it is launched. MobileMe had horrible issues when it launched that were inexcusable. However, something like optimizing the loading of webpages is perfectly acceptable to include post-launch; it worked before, it just works better now that they have had time to go back through the code and performance tune it better.
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PlaceofDis
39 months ago
too little too late. i've already decided that after 3 years .mac/mobile me will never be up to where it should be. just not worth the cost when there are better alternatives out there.
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Doctor Q
39 months ago
"Keep me logged in for two weeks" finally works.
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voicegy
39 months ago

"Keep me logged in for two weeks" finally works.


Hast thou a time machine, good Doctor? ;)

(Odd how many gods and demi-gods posted early on this thread.)

I've had a .mac account from the beginning when it was free - it's always nice to see improvements, especially given the yearly admission fee. :)
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emotion
39 months ago

too little too late. i've already decided that after 3 years .mac/mobile me will never be up to where it should be. just not worth the cost when there are better alternatives out there.


I'm beginning to think like that as well. Here in Europe iDisks are slower too.
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chicagdan
39 months ago

I'm beginning to think like that as well. Here in Europe iDisks are slower too.


The combination of Safari 4 plus the MobileMe upgrades means it's finally a usable Windows webmail client. It's never going to be worth the money, but for those who have stuck with it for years, this is a welcome upgrade. Safari 4 in particular is a huge leap forward, so much faster.
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walnuts
39 months ago
It also seems to me like they added Chrome to the list of acceptable browsers- that seemed to me like an oversight on apple's part. I can't imagine that Chrome didn't actually display mobile me correctly, and I never had any issues with it.
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