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'Welcome to iCloud' emails sent out prematurely

by Chris Rawson (Sep 30th, 2011)

Between the upcoming media event on October 4 and recent downtime on MobileMe, it's looking likely that iCloud's public launch is coming soon. An email sent to an AppleInsider reader, reprinted below, adds yet more evidence for an imminent debut ...

Apple allegedly 'open' to restoring discontinued MobileMe features

by Chris Rawson (Sep 13th, 2011)

As part of the MobileMe transition to iCloud, several of MobileMe's features are being discontinued, including iWeb hosting, Gallery, iDisk, and a handful of syncing services. An AppleInsider reader emailed Apple CEO Tim Cook to complain about ...

Apple confirms iCloud won't offer iTunes streaming to iOS

by Mike Schramm (Aug 30th, 2011)

The iTunes Match beta opened up to developers yesterday, and in case you were somehow under the impression that it actually offered streaming of music to your iOS device, you're mistaken. Apple has confirmed, because apparently there was ...

MobileMe, iCloud phishing scam making the rounds

by Michael Grothaus (Aug 26th, 2011)

There's a new phishing scam going around today involving MobileMe and iCloud. As noted by MacRumors, the scam involves an email that asks users to upgrade their MobileMe accounts to iCloud. The email reads: Dear MobileMe ...

MobileMe webmail balks at political bulk mailings

by Mike Schramm (Jul 8th, 2011)

Unfortunately, as originally reported by John Brownlee at Cult of Mac, it looks like Apple may be filtering out emails sent from the online MobileMe client based on content. The story is that a user was trying to send an email mentioning ...

Dear Aunt TUAW: Help me get a MobileMe refund

by Erica Sadun (Jun 16th, 2011)

Dear Aunt TUAW, I renewed MobileMe in April for $99. It appears there will be no refund. Where's the loud and insistent outcry? Your rather ticked-off nephew, Z Dear Z, Auntie totally gets where you are coming from (although as far as ...

Ten ways to replace iWeb and MobileMe hosting

by Steven Sande (Jun 13th, 2011)

Yesterday, we reported on a rumor that Apple's website creation software, iWeb, is about a year away from obsolescence, along with MobileMe's hosting of iWeb sites. An iWeb user allegedly sent Apple CEO Steve Jobs an email asking if he should ...

How iTunes Match solves my obscure downsampling problem

by Richard Gaywood (Jun 11th, 2011)

I have a longstanding audio quality problem with iTunes -- but iTunes Match will finally resolve it for me. Hurray! Hopefully this post will help others in the same situation. It all starts with the sad fact that I'm a perfectionist idiot about ...

Banned apps back from beyond with iCloud

by Michael Rose (Jun 9th, 2011)

Miss your iDOS emulator, or another app that's been punted from the App Store? CDFXapps noticed that the App Store app on their iOS 5-enabled iPad gave them the option of redownloading the no-longer-available DOS emulation app. This is part of ...

MobileMe: Some speculation about the transition to iCloud

by Steven Sande (Jun 7th, 2011)

I'll start this post off by stating the obvious -- there's a lot about how MobileMe services will transition to iCloud that we don't know yet. But I'm going to take a stab at some of the most pressing questions we've received from TUAW readers ...

Windows XP users will be lost in the iCloud

by Michael Rose (Jun 7th, 2011)

It's a subtle change but an important one: Apple's published Windows system requirements for iCloud are a bit different than they are for MobileMe and the current version of iTunes. Per the company's press release: Using iCloud with a PC ...

MobileMe stays live through June 30, 2012

by Chris Rawson (Jun 6th, 2011)

Apple's new iCloud service is a full, free replacement for MobileMe. But iCloud won't officially launch until iOS 5 debuts this fall. What does that mean for existing MobileMe subscribers? Not long ago we advised our readers not to pay ...

iCloud offerings might be free to those who upgrade to Lion

by Dana Franklin (Jun 1st, 2011)

When Steve Jobs kicks off Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) next Monday, AppleInsider suggests the iconic CEO may reveal an aggressive price-point for some of the Cupertino company's upcoming cloud services -- free. On Tuesday, Apple ...

MobileMe subscription about to expire? Don't renew it just yet

by Chris Rawson (May 30th, 2011)

If you've already paid the US$99 for Apple's MobileMe service, but your account is due for renewal within the next ten days or so, it might be a good idea to hold off on renewing it for now. Apple's rumored to be heavily revamping its MobileMe ...

MobileMe mail service experiencing problems

by Michael Grothaus (May 16th, 2011)

I've been having problems getting MobileMe email all day today. So have lots of other people. The problems seem to be with both IMAP servers and on accessing email on the MobileMe member page. To be fair, some of us at TUAW haven't had any ...

Rumor: Evidence for a Castle in the 'iCloud' for Lion

by Michael Rose (Apr 30th, 2011)

French blog Consomac sent us a heads-up that they've done a bit of digging in the current developer preview, searching for further evidence of the suggested Find My Mac feature in Mac OS X 10.7 Lion and the fabled iCloud domain name. What they ...