MobileMe not so pushy

July 15, 2008

Many commenters and bloggers hither and yon have noticed that MobileMe lacks “true push” capabilities, even though Apple uses the “push” buzzword extensively to describe MobileMe services.

A commenter in a MacRumors thread about the subject took screenshots from Apple’s site, showing they ha…

Apple releases OS X MobileMe update

July 10, 2008

Apple has released a new “MobileMe” update that allows your OS X system to “see” and interact with the new MobileMe service. As many may know, the change by from .Mac to MobileMe happened last night into the wee hours of the dawn. that software adds the new MobileMe system preference pane and ad…

iPhone 3G highly anticipated among readers

June 28, 2008

Yesterday, we asked you, dear readers, to identify the forthcoming Apple goody that you’re anticipating the most. Thousands of you answered, and here are the results.

First and foremost, you’re looking forward to the 3G iPhone. A full 1,802 (29.4%) respondents put the new phone at the top of …

The real .mac opens up with new regulations

June 27, 2008

ICANN, the ruling body for Net domain naming, has voted to relax a few rules that will supposedly open up a whole slew of top-level domain names, multiple news sources are reporting. They haven’t precisely said why they’re doing that, only that it will “preserve the safety measure, stability, an…

Rumor: 10.5.4 due before July 11th

June 24, 2008

AppleInsider claims to have information on the next point update of Mac OS X Leopard (version 10.5.4). According to AppleInsider, the build number of 10.5.4 is 9E17. They plus reported that the beta of 10.5.4 has “no known issues” in its latest build, and that beta testers were asked to focus on…

MobileMe browser requirements page found

June 23, 2008

Joining in on the conversation about tonight’s .Mac outage, reader Chad sent us a link to a page he discovered on .Mac. He said that while trying to access his .Mac service on his iPhone, he was redirected to a MobileMe browser requirements page. One of the suspicious things on the page is the f…

.Mac down

June 23, 2008

Some readers are reporting that they cannot login to their .Mac service. Apple is currently reporting that the Web Pages are down at mac.com.

“Members cannot access the www.mac.com website. It will be restored ASAP. Read more for interim solutions,” Apple notes on the support website.

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