MobileMe

Apple's Mail e-mail client is a fairly straightforward tool for accessing IMAP, POP, and Exchange accounts, and for the most part it works quite well, but it is not without its quirks. One of these is that at times Mail can start prompting users for their account passwords again and seem to not properly store them. When this happens the program may appear to stop interacting with the mail server for such functions as downloading new messages.

The first thing to do whenever there is a problem with Mail's connection with an e-mail server is to open the … Read more

Apple may turn MobileMe into digital shelves where iTunes users can store electronic books, songs, and movies.

MobileMe is an online storage locker, a service that enables users to keep calendars, address books, and e-mail on Apple's servers. In the future, Apple could turn the service into an entertainment and media hub, where users maintain their digital music and video libraries, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal.

MobileMe costs $99 annually to use, but Apple may turn it into a free service, the Journal report.

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Using iCal linked with Apple's online MobileMe service is one way to synchronize your calendars across devices and make them available online wherever you have an Internet connection. Despite the benefits of this, a number of users have recently run into a problem in which setting alarms on future events results in an access-forbidden error that seems to pop up randomly.

For people experiencing this problem, if you create an event seven or more days in the future and then create an alarm or reminder for this event that occurs seven or more days in advance, iCal issues the … Read more

After logging out of your MobileMe account, you may find that your iOS device no longer automatically syncs with your Mac, even after you log back in to MobileMe. This very thing happened to me this weekend after I logged out of my MobileMe account to troubleshoot an issue with iWeb.

What happens? When you sign out of your MobileMe account on your Mac (System Preferences > MobileMe > Account) your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch will no longer be syncing automatically. For example, adding an iCal event on your iPhone will not add it to your Mac, even after … Read more

Apple's iWeb, combined with MobileMe, is an easy and effective method of publishing your personal Web site. Some users, however, encounter issues when attempting to publish their newly created or updated site using MobileMe.

When faced with publishing issues, there are a few places to look, most of which are fairly simple ways to solve the problem without having to be too technical.

The first thing to consider when facing publishing errors in iWeb is your Internet connection. Be sure you are connected to a network and that the network is connected to an ISP. Open System Preferences > … Read more

The synchronization features of iCal are exceptionally useful for keeping calendars in sync on different computers and mobile devices; however, there may be times when problems with the synchronization occur, resulting in more than one copy of the same event being distributed to all devices. Sometimes this happens only with one device, in which case the fix can simply be resetting and resyncing that device; however, at other times it may be impossible to identify the root of the problem.

In this case, the easiest solution is to reset the calendar synchronization data on all but one master device, set … Read more

File this under "it should have been free all along." Apple's "Find my iPhone" feature, previously a feature of the subscription-based MobileMe service, is now free--with a catch: it's only free for users of the iPhone 4, iPad, or newest fourth-generation iPod Touch.

That means that while many iDevices--be they iPad, iPhone, or iPod Touch--can be updated to iOS 4.2, only the most recent versions of each will get the free "Find my iPhone" functionality.

The service finds your iPhone, if by "find" you mean "get a rough … Read more

Apple has released a gaggle of knowledge base articles alongside the new version of its MobileMe Calendar Web application, now out of beta. The articles range in content from how to unpublish calendars to general troubleshooting methods to how to set up the new version.… Read more

Apple officially launched its new MobileMe Calendar today, bringing the features out of beta and making them available to all members of the paid service.

The new MobileMe Calendar debuted as a beta in July, adding a number of new features to make the service more powerful and easier to use. The new calendar includes everything from redesigned views for day, week, and month, to a new list view showing your events.

Among the new features in the calendar is the ability to create a shared calendar and allow those you share it with to also edit events. E-mail notifications … Read more