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Saying "goodbye" to .Mac

by Cory Bohon (Jul 9th, 2008)

Tonight, we will all say "goodbye" to .Mac, a service that has been a small part of Apple for almost 8 years. iTools, .Mac's predecessor, was launched on January 5, 2000 at the Macworld Expo in San Francisco and was a free service that included a HomePage, iCards and the much coveted @mac.com e-mail ...

Apple, Amazon offer boxed versions of MobileMe

by Cory Bohon (Jul 8th, 2008)

Early Tuesday morning, Apple started offering boxed versions of the much awaited MobileMe web service. While buying from Apple costs $99 for the boxed version, Amazon is offering MobileMe for $89.99 (US). According to Amazon, MobileMe has been on sale since "July 1, 2008," however, they also say ...

MobileMe launch date set: July 9th at 6 p.m. PT

by Cory Bohon (Jul 7th, 2008)

Apple has just updated the .Mac status page with the date/time of the .Mac to MobileMe switch. So, for those of you wondering when Apple might start the switch will not have to wonder any longer. July 9th from 6 p.m. until 12 a.m. PT is the scheduled date and time. Apple says that during the switch, ...

.Mac Bookmark webaccess going away July 6th

by Scott McNulty (Jul 2nd, 2008)

The above message has been posted to the .Mac Tips website. As you can see .Mac members are being told to sync their .Mac bookmarks to a computer (Mac or PC) by July 6th because web access to bookmarks is no longer going to be supported in MobileMe (.Mac's replacement). The July 6th date is ...

MobileMe and personal domains

by Dave Caolo (Jun 29th, 2008)

According to Apple Support documents, personal domains will be kept intact with MobileMe. Blogger Sean Sperte noticed a "personal domain" option while watching the MobileMe quick tour. That prompted some investigation which led to this support document. Sure enough, it confirms that .Mac personal ...

Rumor: 10.5.4 due before July 11th

by Cory Bohon (Jun 24th, 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 also 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

by Cory Bohon (Jun 23rd, 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 fact ...

.Mac down

by Cory Bohon (Jun 23rd, 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. Could this ...

Apple leaves placeholder text in a published MobileMe page, eh?

by Cory Bohon (Jun 23rd, 2008)

Canada has many things going for it: maple trees everywhere, single-payer health care system and a one-of-a-kind Apple page. One of our readers just tipped us about an error on the MobileMe signup completion page for Canada. Apparently, Apple's designers left in some placeholder text on the signup ...

Readers report .Mac service outages

by Michael Rose (Jun 17th, 2008)

We've gotten several reports this morning that sections of the .Mac service, including web galleries, webmail and the www.mac.com page, are offline today. Email to the .Mac domain appears to be flowing but there's no ETA on restoration of the services and no clear picture of exactly what is ...

UI changes in the MobileMe Guided Tour

by Dave Caolo (Jun 10th, 2008)

Part of the fun of watching the Guided Tour videos that Apple has been producing lately is obsessing over every minor detail. With that in mind, we've gone over the MobileMe Guided Tour with a fine-toothed comb. Here's what we found. ...

What isn't making the cut from .Mac to MobileMe

by Scott McNulty (Jun 9th, 2008)

On the surface MobileMe looks like a much better way to spend $99 than .Mac ever was, but there are a few .Mac features that are going to be discontinued. Say farewell to the following .Mac highlights: iCards: I don't remember the last time I sent an iCard, but I always liked the fact that I ...

Get a $30 discount on MobileMe

by Cory Bohon (Jun 9th, 2008)

If you have been waiting for the announcement of MobileMe (which, who hasn't), then you might like to know about two deals we discovered that allow you to get MobileMe on the cheap. Deal 1 Apple is running a promotion for new Mac purchasers. This deal allows you to get a $30 discount on a new Mac + ...

.Mac to MobileMe: what's the deal?

by Scott McNulty (Jun 9th, 2008)

The above graphic is what greets you when you visit .Mac. Apple is not hiding the fact that MobileMe is the successor to .Mac (which itself was the replacement for iTools, which some might recall was free). Now, many .Mac users might be worried about how the transition from .Mac to MobileMe will ...

Apple posts MobileMe Guided Tour

by Scott McNulty (Jun 9th, 2008)

MobileMe is a brand new service from Apple that will soon replace, and supplant, .Mac. Apple bills it as 'Exchange for the rest of us,' meaning that it offers you one central place ('the cloud,' as Apple is calling it) to store your email, calendar, and address book. You even have a number of ...