Mobileme Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Dear Aunt TUAW: Help me move on from iWeb and MobileMe

by Erica Sadun (Jun 6th, 2012)

Dear Aunt TUAW, With the demise of MobileMe and [the corresponding decreased functionality of] iWeb the question has come up with myself and friends as to what to use instead. Looking for something along the lines of iWeb but with a bit more flexibility. Something like Adobe DreamWeaver is ...

OmniGroup has info for those syncing OmniFocus to MobileMe

by Kelly Hodgkins (Jun 4th, 2012)

Time is running out for OmniFocus customers who are still using MobileMe to sync their data. Apple is going to shut down the MobileMe service on June 30, 2012 and users need to switch their syncing services before this date. To help you transition away from MobileMe, OmniGroup lists several ...

How to keep MobileMe mail working after iCloud turns it off

by Mike Schramm (May 14th, 2012)

Here at TUAW on the tipline, we have heard no end of complaints about MobileMe. Some days, it seems like every other tip is about how much of a mess MobileMe email is. Which is probably why Apple is finally shutting the service down in a month or so, transitioning over to the new iCloud ...

MobileMe customers get free 20 GB of iCloud storage until September

by Kelly Hodgkins (May 7th, 2012)

Last year, Apple announced that it's shutting down MobileMe at the end of June 2012. To ease the transition from MobileMe to iCloud, the company offered 20GB of free iCloud storage to all existing MobileMe users. This free storage expires June 30, 2012, but a change in Apple's website, noticed ...

Replacing iDisk with online storage of your own

by Steven Sande (Apr 25th, 2012)

With the June 30, 2012 death of Apple's MobileMe service looming just a little over two months away, some Mac users are still wondering what to do to replace one of the keystone pieces of the service -- iDisk. Macworld's Glenn Fleishman provided some tips today on how to replace iDisk with your ...

Apple is giving away Snow Leopard to MobileMe customers

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Apr 18th, 2012)

In an effort to get the remaining MobileMe customers upgraded to Lion and iCloud, Apple is offering a free upgrade to OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard for those still running OS X 10.5 Leopard. Macgasm posted pictures of the missive, which directs MobileMe customers to this link. After signing in, those ...

Is the new Journal feature in iPhoto for iOS the start of something bigger?

by Mel Martin (Mar 8th, 2012)

I certainly hope so. One of the joys of using a Mac with MobileMe was that someone with little or no computer sophistication could get photos easily published to the web. Great for families sharing with distant relatives and friends, or anyone who needed to get a gallery of photos to the internet ...

Daily Update for February 24, 2012

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Feb 24th, 2012)

It's the TUAW Daily Update, your source for Apple news in a convenient audio format. You'll get all the top Apple stories of the day in three to five minutes for a quick review of what's happening in the Apple world. You can listen to today's Apple stories by clicking the inline player (requires ...

Apple halts iCloud push services in Germany

by Kelly Hodgkins (Feb 24th, 2012)

Apple was handed a setback in Germany recently when a court ruled in favor of Motorola in a patent infringement case involving Apple's iCloud and MobileMe push email service. A new support document on Apple's German website confirms the company is halting push email for its customers that are ...

Apple encourages MobileMe customers to transition to iCloud

by Dave Caolo (Feb 22nd, 2012)

MobileMe is scheduled to be shut down in June 2012, and Apple has begun encouraging users to transition to iCloud. Email messages are going out this week that promote iCloud's services and provide a big 'ol blue button for customers to click and begin the migration process. iCloud offers most of ...

Apple and Motorola scuffle over iCloud and push email

by Kelly Hodgkins (Feb 3rd, 2012)

Motorola scored a victory against Apple today when it won a permanent injunction against the company's iCloud and MobileMe push email service. According to FOSS Patents, the injunction is "preliminarily enforceable," which means Motorola can enforce the ruling right away by posting a 100 million ...

iCloud now has 85 million users

by Chris Rawson (Jan 24th, 2012)

In its recent conference call discussing its record-smashing financial results, Apple revealed that its cloud syncing service, iCloud, currently has 85 million users signed up. iCloud debuted alongside the iPhone 4S and iOS 5 as a free-of-charge replacement for Apple's old MobileMe service, and its ...

Type to your iPhone with Type2Phone and your Mac keyboard

by Erica Sadun (Nov 25th, 2011)

As a general rule, I avoid reviewing apps from friends. You send me a pitch, I pass it along to the team. But when Matthias Ringwald, Bluetooth developer extraordinaire told me about Type2Phone, I really wanted to try it out myself. For $4.99, this Mac app transforms your computer into a ...

'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 of iCloud. Welcome to iCloud. The Apple ID ...

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 the deprecation of iDisk and syncing services for ...