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Apple rolls out more MobileMe enhancements

By: , IntoMobile
Tuesday, December 23rd, 2008 at 12:48 PM

MobileMe has had some trouble getting up and running. The push-data service from Apple is now stable and reliable, but far from perfect.

To that end, Apple has rolled out a few fixes and feature upgrades to its MobileMe service. Apple’s list of MobileMe enhancements and bug-fixes include:

Contacts

  • Searching for contacts in a large address book (more than 1000 contacts) is faster and no longer results in a “slow script” browser alert message
  • Exported vCards with multi-line addresses or notes can now be imported into the Mac OS X Address Book
  • Adds keyboard shortcut to create a new contact
  • Additional formatting options for European phone numbers are now supported

Calendar

  • Adds sorting of To Do items by calendar or title
  • Long event titles now appear properly in Month view

Gallery

  • Updated “Tell a friend” email message
  • Resolves an issue related to setting a new album’s key photo

iDisk

  • Files and folder names that contain Japanese language characters now display properly on the web

Account

  • Hosting of iWeb pages can be configured for personal domains ending in “.eu”, “.ax”, “.tl”, “.gw”, “.kp”, “.rs” or “.su”
  • Family Member accounts now display the accurate renewal/expiration date
  • Resolves an issue that prevented some members from using an activation key (MobileMe box) to renew a subscription

Login

  • “Keep me logged in for two weeks” checkbox now works reliably

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Will hails from The City of Angels - Los Angeles, California. He spends his time playing with his numerous gadgets and looking forward to seeing what future holds for mobile technology. An avid promoter of a fully "digital" life, he promotes the widespread adoption of truly mobile, paper-less living. He dreams of the day when he can go completely digital. No more snail mail, paper receipts, bound books, notepads/spiral notebooks, credit cards, hard currency. He's a digital warrior - fighting for the converged life. He is an idealist and a realist - he has a perfect view of what the world should be but knows that the world is not perfect. Can we ever hope to see Will's dream become reality? We'll see...