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| From: Apple
List Price: $99.00
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Rating:  129 reviews
Sales Rank: 29
Format: Dvd-rom
Platform: Mac Os X
Media: DVD-ROM
Edition: Standard
Operating System: Mac OS X
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 5.5 x 5.3 x 0.5
MPN: MB611Z/A
Model: MB824Z/A
UPC: 885909242122
EAN: 0885909242122
ASIN: B001BY45QO
Release Date: July 12, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: BRAND NEW IN RETAIL BOX.
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| Features:
| • | 20GB of combined email and file storage, 200GB of monthly data transfer, and full access to everything MobileMe has to offer | | • | Use a complete set of desktop-quality applications to organize and store your most important information; changes, new messages, and events are automatically synced up to the cloud and back down to all your devices, so you're always up to date | | • | MobileMe applications--Mail, Contacts, Calendar, Gallery, and iDisk--feature an elegant, unified interface, drag-and-drop support, and more; works with native applications you use every day--Outlook on a PC and Mail, Address Book, and iCal on the Mac | | • | Create stunning online galleries for your photos; share photos with friends and family, let them download print-quality images, and even allow them to add their own photos | | • | Store and access files from anywhere using MobileMe iDisk; share files that are too big for email by automatically sending a download link to recipients |
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Product Description
Imagine running beautifully designed, easy-to-use Apple applications on your PC. At me.com, you can check your email, manage your contacts and calendar, share photos, and store documents. The applications are so intuitive and clutter free that me.com could become your new desktop. On a PC, MobileMe works seamlessly with the applications you use every day. You can use Outlook, Outlook Express, and Windows Contacts on XP or Vista. MobileMe automatically pushes your email, contacts, and calendars ? and even your Safari or Internet Explorer bookmarks ? to your other computers, iPhone, and iPod touch. If you have more than one PC, use MobileMe to keep email, contacts, calendars, and bookmarks the same on all of them. If you have a Mac and a PC, they can share the same information. MobileMe will keep your computers, iPhone, and iPod touch in sync and up to date. Do everything you need to do on every device you own. MobileMe works with Mail, Address Book, and iCal on a Mac; Microsoft Outlook on a PC with Windows XP or Vista; and the built-in applications on your iPhone or iPod touch.
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MobileMe, an Internet service from Apple, automatically syncs your email, contacts, and calendar to your iPhone, iPod touch, Mac, and PC. So wherever you go, you'll always be up to date. Changes you make on one device are automatically sent to a secure online server, the MobileMe "cloud," and back down to your other devices, keeping them all in sync. MobileMe works with the native applications you use every day--Microsoft Outlook on a PC and Mail, Address Book, and iCal on the Mac. Access your email, contacts, calendar, photos, and documents from anywhere with a suite of elegant, ad-free web applications at me.com. Use MobileMe Gallery to share photos with friends and family in a stunning online gallery. Easily store, access, and share large files from anywhere using MobileMe iDisk. With push email, contacts, and calendars, easy photo sharing, an online iDisk, and 20GB of storage, MobileMe keeps everything up to date, anywhere you are. An individual membership comes with 20GB of combined email and file storage, 200GB of monthly data transfer, and full access to everything MobileMe has to offer. It all goes where you go. Maybe you have a computer at home, one at work, and an iPhone or iPod touch. And it can be hard to keep them all up to date. But now there's MobileMe. Wherever you are, your iPhone, iPod touch, Mac, and PC are always current and always in sync. And with a suite of elegant new web applications, you can access your data from anywhere. - Automatic sync.
MobileMe stores all your email, contacts, and calendars on an online server--or "cloud"--and syncs them to your iPhone, iPod touch, Mac, and PC. When you make a change on one device, the cloud updates the others. The sync happens automatically and continuously. You don't have to wait for it or remember to do anything--such as docking your iPhone and syncing manually--to stay up to date.
(Please note: Updates between me.com and iPhone or iPod touch will occur in a matter of seconds; updates between me.com and Macs running Mac OS X Leopard and Windows PCs may take up to 15 minutes when MobileMe is set to sync automatically. Macs running Mac OS X Tiger may experience longer sync times.)
- Works with the native applications you know.
Do everything you need to do on every device you own. MobileMe works with Mail, Address Book, and iCal on a Mac; Microsoft Outlook on a PC with Windows XP or Vista; and the built-in applications on your iPhone or iPod touch.
- Your web applications at me.com.
Check your email, change your calendar, edit your contacts, and more at me.com. Accessible anywhere, me.com is an ad-free suite of web applications--Mail, Contacts, Calendar, Gallery, and iDisk--that are elegant and easy to use. You can drag and drop, click and drag, use keyboard shortcuts, and even switch between applications with a single click. Me.com is such a great web experience, it seems as if you're using desktop software. MobileMe Mail Now your email finds you anywhere, so you'll never miss an important message.  Check your e-mail from an elegantly designed, ad-free interface. Send a quick reply without even opening a message. | Push. Don't fetch.
MobileMe Mail syncs new messages to your iPhone automatically and notifies you when they arrive. You'll know in a glance if you have new email, so you don't have to spend time checking. Your email meets its match.
MobileMe Mail stays the same wherever you go thanks to IMAP technology. Whether you check your email on your computer, iPhone, iPod touch, or the web, read messages are marked as read, flagged messages are flagged, and all your folders are exactly the way you left them. The best email on the web.
You can access MobileMe Mail from anywhere at me.com. With a beautiful, clean design and an intuitive interface, you might forget it's all on the web. View your messages and mailboxes in one window and simply drag and drop to organize them. With auto-complete addressing, message previews, and Quick Reply, email on the web is easier than ever. Best of all, you'll never see an ad. Native application friendly.
MobileMe Mail uses the email applications you already know. On your iPhone and iPod touch, it works with the built-in Mail application. It also works with Mail on a Mac and Outlook, Outlook Express, or Windows Mail on a PC. Safe. Secure. And no spam.
MobileMe automatically scans incoming and outgoing messages for viruses. Images are not loaded unless you allow it. With great spam filtering, your inbox will be junk mail free. You@me.com.
With MobileMe Mail, you can create an email address that's personal and easy to remember. Maybe it's yourname@me.com or maybe it's something clever. Whatever you think up, it will be your best email address yet.  Add contacts, edit details, and even assign photos from any computer. Locate a contact and get directions with integrated Google Maps. | MobileMe Contacts From one place to the next, you're always well connected. Your connections in the cloud.
With MobileMe Contacts, you have instant access to your entire address book. From your computer to your iPhone to the web, your contacts follow you. Keep contacts up to date.
Ever been on the road without an important phone number? With MobileMe, your contacts are synced to all your devices and everything stays up to date. Make a change on your computer, and MobileMe updates your iPhone automatically. Likewise, when you make a change on your iPhone, it's synced to your computer. Whether you use Address Book on a Mac, Outlook, Outlook Express, or Windows Contacts on a PC, or Contacts on your iPhone or iPod touch, you'll always have the information you need. Everyone you know is on the web.
You can also manage your contacts right from me.com. Anywhere you are, add new contacts and groups--even assign photos to them. Find a contact fast with a quick search. Map locations and get directions with integrated Google Maps. Changes made on the web are pushed to your devices automatically. No dock required.
With push technology, all of the contacts on your iPhone, iPod touch, Mac, and PC stay up to date without a dock, a cable, or you doing anything at all.  Add or change events with a simple drag and drop. Add multiple calendars for work, home, and anything in between. | MobileMe Calendar Wherever you are is where you're supposed to be. You're always up to date.
You'll never miss a lunch date or an important meeting. MobileMe syncs your calendar to your iPhone, iPod touch, Mac, and PC. So you always know where you need to be and when you need to be there. Make a change on one device--such as creating or rescheduling an event--and MobileMe updates it on all your other devices automatically. MobileMe works seamlessly with iCal on a Mac and Outlook on a PC. The amazing web calendar at me.com.
MobileMe Calendar on the web makes being busy a lot more fun. You can create different calendars for work, home, and everything in between. Choose from day, week, and month views and turn calendars on and off for easy reviewing. With a simple drag and drop, add or change an event. Changes you make are automatically synced to all your devices so you're always up to date. No dock required.
MobileMe Calendar syncs calendar changes over the air to your iPhone or iPod touch. You don't have to sync manually with a dock or do anything at all. MobileMe Gallery It's your own spectacular venue for sharing photos with the world.  Arrange photos in albums and organize them by event. Add photos and manage albums from your iPhone, computer or any web browser. | Point. Shoot. Amaze.
When your friends and family visit your MobileMe Gallery, they're in for a show. Just upload photos from your computer or iPhone to your gallery, and invite people to visit, download their favorites, and even contribute their own. With beautiful animated views, everyone will see your photos come to life. Your photos never looked better.
Friends and family can view your photos in a beautiful gallery using a web browser on a Mac or PC. They can skim albums to see what's inside, select an album, and choose viewing options such as mosaic, carousel, or slideshow. And with automatic resizing, your photos adjust instantly to fit the browser window so they always look great, even on large displays. Manage from anywhere.
You can create a new album or make changes to your MobileMe Gallery from virtually anywhere at me.com. Easily upload new photos, rearrange them, edit titles, and more. Your changes are instantly reflected in your gallery for friends to see. Have a Mac? You can upload photos directly from iPhoto '08 or Aperture 2 with just a few clicks. Print-quality downloads.
You can allow visitors to download high-resolution copies of their favorite photos or entire albums right from their browser. Your photos download as full-size JPEGs (highest resolution) or images optimized for 16-by-20-inch prints (smaller file size). Contributions welcome.
You aren't the only one shooting pictures. With MobileMe Gallery, you can get the shots you wish you had by allowing friends to contribute their photos. They can do it from a browser or via email. Amazing with iPhone and Apple TV.
MobileMe Gallery works beautifully with all your Apple devices. Your photos look great on iPhone. If you snap a picture on the road, you can post it directly to your gallery with just a few taps. And with Apple TV, you can view anyone's public photos on your widescreen television--no computer required.  Upload files and download from any browser, anywhere you are. Easily share large files by sending an email with a link. | MobileMe iDisk Anywhere you go, you can always get the files you need. Your personal hard disk online.
With MobileMe iDisk, it's easy to store, access, and share files online. You have plenty of storage space--even large files are no problem. Just add the files you need to your iDisk, and whatever you upload will be there for you to download using a web browser on any computer. Easy web access.
MobileMe iDisk is accessible from any web browser, Mac or PC, at me.com. With a familiar, intuitive interface, uploading and organizing files is as simple as drag and drop. You can see your files in list or column view. And if you use a Mac, you can find iDisk right in the Mac OS X Finder. Share and share alike.
Sharing data with friends is a snap with iDisk--even files too big for email. Just upload what you want to share. iDisk will help you send an email with a link to the file. If you have files to share with a group of people, add the files to your iDisk Public folder, where your friends can access them online and post their own.
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This is a step back from .mac July 18, 2008
J. Miller (Walkersville, MD United States)
28 out of 41 found this review helpful
I am writing this review over a week after the launch. I have been a user of this service since this was called iTools back in the very first days of 2000. Back when Santana and Rob Thomas were making Smooth music together. BTW, it was also a free service back then. Times have changed and Apple now charges $99 and we have only a few more features. The so-called push technology that Apple was promoting is not push.
It actually takes 15 minutes to sync on your home macs. Also, you can no longer create groups. Sometimes, you can't even edit them. So far, the service is spotty. This was one of the best features of .mac. You can still edit any you have now when the service works, but Apple has stated no new groups can be created. All current users should get a refund because we paid our money with the belief we would get all the services for a full year. Also, it appears that homepage is not going to be supported for much longer. It works now but it appears that both Groups and Homepage may disappear like water in a desert. The so-called push technology is not enough to win over many new converts. With what they are taking away and adding it seems that the only viable product here is email and $99 a year for that is robbery. The ability to sync all my contacts, ical, and email on my mac and an iphone will be great once everything works correctly. I just wish they would have beefed up the Groups and Homepage features and not reduced their usefulness.
 MobileMe promises everything, does NOTHING July 14, 2008
Ryan Jensen (Wisconsin)
23 out of 33 found this review helpful
DO NOT BUY THIS PRODUCT UNTIL YOU HAVE TRIED IT FIRST. Apple currently allows you to do a 60 day trial before you purchase; I'm glad I tried it first. It was only released a couple of days ago, and nothing works. E-mails are duplicated when you delete them, calendar events dates are changed by a day, features that were advertised with the iDisk function are being removed by Apple, logging in works / doesn't work / works / doesn't work, and syncing either works, doesn't work, or can lag on and on. I consider myself to be a more advanced computer user than the general population. This has to be one of the lousiest pieces of software I've ever used. I WANT it to do what it says, but it just doesn't work plain and simple. I can't believe this is an official piece of software from Apple! Don't believe me? Visit the official Apple support discussions for MobileMe and read about all of the problems for yourself.
***Edited on July 25th*** Well, Apple has now added another 30 days to the free trial because of all of the problems (which now gives you a total of 90 days). Amazon has dropped the price, the reviews are averaging 1 star, and Apple's customer support is non-existent. I've called Apple technical support only to be told that they don't support MobileMe over the phone. I then e-mailed them 3 times and each time got links to the support webpage after 3 days of waiting. More items are working, but it's still buggier than all get out. Some things that still don't work are being able to access your address book to e-mail contacts, unable to add a field when adding contact information, deleted e-mails popping back up, messages are labeled as "unable to send" but send anyway... etc, etc.
If you want reliable email, stay far away from MobileMe... July 21, 2008
Yellow Jacket (Atlanta, GA USA)
23 out of 27 found this review helpful
I have been a fairly content .mac customer since 2002... a few problems here and there, but overall, it hasn't been bad... until NOW...
The MobileMe transition has been horrible... I, along with many others (check the discussion boards over at apple), have had no email for days and days now... This is completely UNACCEPTABLE...
Upon complaint of the lack of email service, apple throws this in your face: "The Service is designed for personal use and not intended to be used for commercial business purposes, including, but not limited to, transacting online sales or software distribution via an e-commerce site."
So... it seems clear that MobileMe is a "hobby" and not intended for serious users...
and I won't even bother to describe how horrible the "push" service is... How it won't sync birthdays to the calendar in my iPhone... How some contacts have mysteriously just disappeared or have lost data...
Stay away from this product! Just go get a FREE gmail account, it is much more dependable!
Apple's VISTA July 22, 2008
T. Lawrence (Davis, CA United States)
21 out of 33 found this review helpful
Theoretically, a great idea - and I have been a .mac subscriber since 2004 - but mobileme was either rushed out or the folks at Apple have hired a bunch unemployed VISTA engineers - or maybe both - this thing really stinks - I have been unable to get any email for 5 days and counting - the sync is unreliable - works great on their ad - but not so well in the real word - and now it appears that the issue is spreading to ichat - unable to log in there - Apple should have introduced this over time and not migrated all of the .mac accounts over at the same time that the G3 iphones were introduced - VERY unApple like - pretty, pretty, pretty poor.
Run...Run away fast! July 22, 2008
Douglas B. Rankin
20 out of 25 found this review helpful
I've been a Mac geek for years. I have always tried to convert people. This one program has soured me to Mac for a long time to come. Their head-in-the-sand attitude is perhaps the most ostentatious business decision I have ever seen. Not only have they done damage to individuals and businesses who rely on data, they REFUSE to acknowledge they are at any fault. They continue to lie on their web page about the status of the program, they remove any avenue of normal communication or feedback, and they remove select postings on discussion groups which are critical of their company. Keep your money and go to gmail or yahoo.
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