Announced in June and released just a few weeks ago remote access to your iDisk is now available from your iPhone or iPod Touch. The application allows you to access your iDisk and even view most file formats directly on your phone.
Apple have upgraded their MobileMe service. It isn’t a massive refresh by any means but a number of little improvements that together make the experience that bit better. Sadly there are still no server sided mail rules, we have been begging for this service for sometime (see here) as they are an essential side to any cloud service.
3-4 days after I spend my hard earned money on the bleeding edge of technology I always enter a time verging on ‘buyers regret’. It isn’t so much that I regret the upgrade more that new hardware brings with it new problems.
As well as a brand new front page Apple have updated their MobileMe service with a new file sharing utility that will especially useful for sharing files too large for email.
This week Google announced Google Sync (beta) for the Google Apps services. The service allows two-way push sync of Google Calendar and Gmail contacts data to iPhone and Windows Mobile devices through ActiveSync. Two-way contacts sync is also available for devices that support SyncML
I was asked today if I could make five changes to MobileMe what would they be. I tweaked the question to a five point wishlist. as I have to say I am more than happy with my MobileMe service.
With the excitement of the upcoming iPhone 2 firmware and launch of the Mobile Me cloud service July is going to be a great month for Apple fans. MobileMe is the most significant upgrade for us. Having been .Mac users for a number of years now we did feel this may have been our last year, the service itself is great but limitations to the .mac mail service made it a second choice to Gmail.
Rumours are appearing on a number of the big Apple blogs and sites that the .Mac service is to get a complete overhaul. The prediction suggests the new features will be rolled out with the iPhone 2 update.
