Comments on: WWDC 2008: Mobile Me http://johnbiehler.com/2008/06/09/wwdc-2008-mobile-me/ Technology, photography and anything else I find interesting Fri, 05 Dec 2008 13:09:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Tanya (aka NetChick) http://johnbiehler.com/2008/06/09/wwdc-2008-mobile-me/#comment-8835 Tanya (aka NetChick) Wed, 11 Jun 2008 19:23:59 +0000 http://johnbiehler.com/?p=356#comment-8835 Ahh! Kevin beat me to it... I'll definitely be using the Funambol when I get my new iPhone (i'm still in severe iPhone withdrawls btw -- It's like I've lost a limb.) I'm sure there'll be other open-source software out there that does similar things as Funambol too. Wait and see I guess! Ahh! Kevin beat me to it… I’ll definitely be using the Funambol when I get my new iPhone (i’m still in severe iPhone withdrawls btw — It’s like I’ve lost a limb.)

I’m sure there’ll be other open-source software out there that does similar things as Funambol too. Wait and see I guess!

]]> By: John http://johnbiehler.com/2008/06/09/wwdc-2008-mobile-me/#comment-8830 John Wed, 11 Jun 2008 15:55:05 +0000 http://johnbiehler.com/?p=356#comment-8830 I hadn't seen that yet Kevin and I'm not surprised. There have been many attempts at replicating the .Mac service by others but they have always been quite involved to setup and because Apple bakes support for .Mac into so many aspects of their products, it always seems (to me) to be not quite .Mac. Personally, I have many options to do many of the things that MobileMe/.mac does. I don't want my photos going to Apple's servers in their album system, I'd rather they go to Flickr. I don't care if my email address is john@mac.com as I have a number of my own domains. It still remains to be seen if you can use your own email domains for the push service. I do like the syncing of calendars and contacts which what I currently use .Mac for to sync between my various Apple computers and it's pretty seamless. Based on the keynote (which I finally fully watched the video of last night), Mobile Me push looks pretty sweet. I'm also curious about syncing my iPhone wireless with everything - new photos in Aperture/iPhoto, new music on my desktop, etc and it seems to me that MobileMe will be the way to do that but I guess we'll have to see once more info is out there and the service is available. I hadn’t seen that yet Kevin and I’m not surprised. There have been many attempts at replicating the .Mac service by others but they have always been quite involved to setup and because Apple bakes support for .Mac into so many aspects of their products, it always seems (to me) to be not quite .Mac. Personally, I have many options to do many of the things that MobileMe/.mac does. I don’t want my photos going to Apple’s servers in their album system, I’d rather they go to Flickr. I don’t care if my email address is john@mac.com as I have a number of my own domains.

It still remains to be seen if you can use your own email domains for the push service. I do like the syncing of calendars and contacts which what I currently use .Mac for to sync between my various Apple computers and it’s pretty seamless. Based on the keynote (which I finally fully watched the video of last night), Mobile Me push looks pretty sweet.

I’m also curious about syncing my iPhone wireless with everything - new photos in Aperture/iPhoto, new music on my desktop, etc and it seems to me that MobileMe will be the way to do that but I guess we’ll have to see once more info is out there and the service is available.

]]> By: Kevin Haggerty http://johnbiehler.com/2008/06/09/wwdc-2008-mobile-me/#comment-8829 Kevin Haggerty Wed, 11 Jun 2008 15:01:48 +0000 http://johnbiehler.com/?p=356#comment-8829 John - you see this? http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/06/10/funambol-to-offer-an-open-source-competitor-to-mobileme-as-an-iphone-app/ John - you see this?

http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/06/10/funambol-to-offer-an-open-source-competitor-to-mobileme-as-an-iphone-app/

]]> By: Kevin Haggerty http://johnbiehler.com/2008/06/09/wwdc-2008-mobile-me/#comment-8750 Kevin Haggerty Tue, 10 Jun 2008 18:03:00 +0000 http://johnbiehler.com/?p=356#comment-8750 I've never used .Mac - mostly because I didn't feel like paying the US $99 a year for what I felt I could get for free mostly. One thing I *would* like to have is the ability to sync calendars seemlessly. I like to be able to have access to my wife's calendars and her to mine, so the system I have set up now is a bit kludgy. I sync her calendars to a site I found (icalx.com) and then subscribe to them from my google apps calendars. I use google apps calendars primarily for me and subscribe to them from iCal on my Mac. That means I can only make changes online and view (read only) the calendars in iCal, but it's not that bad. As for my wife, she just does everything through iCal and I see the changes without her having to do anything. I guess it's the extra step I don't like, having to sync her calendars to the middleman (iCalx.com) to get everything to work. Of course the bonus is that it's free. Does .Mac (or MobileMe) allow you to bring your own email address with you? Anyways, I'm anxious to hear what you think of the new MobileMe when the switch happens. I’ve never used .Mac - mostly because I didn’t feel like paying the US $99 a year for what I felt I could get for free mostly. One thing I *would* like to have is the ability to sync calendars seemlessly.

I like to be able to have access to my wife’s calendars and her to mine, so the system I have set up now is a bit kludgy. I sync her calendars to a site I found (icalx.com) and then subscribe to them from my google apps calendars. I use google apps calendars primarily for me and subscribe to them from iCal on my Mac. That means I can only make changes online and view (read only) the calendars in iCal, but it’s not that bad. As for my wife, she just does everything through iCal and I see the changes without her having to do anything. I guess it’s the extra step I don’t like, having to sync her calendars to the middleman (iCalx.com) to get everything to work. Of course the bonus is that it’s free.

Does .Mac (or MobileMe) allow you to bring your own email address with you? Anyways, I’m anxious to hear what you think of the new MobileMe when the switch happens.

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