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    Mobile Me

    (formerly .mac - a service to sync essential data between several Macs)

    More like 'Woe is me'

    Anyone using this heap of dung successfully?

    It brings a whole new meaning to the word SLOW and constantly warns me that it's about to sync something or other (duh! yes, just go ahead ffs!).

    Useless, Apple. Major FAIL.

    Only $99 p.a. Bargain!
    Last edited by bogeyman; 5 November 2008, 02:25.

    You've come right out the other side of the forest of irony and ended up in the desert of wrong.

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    Originally posted by bogeyman View Post
    (formerly .mac - a service to sync essential data between several Macs)

    More like 'Woe is me'

    Anyone using this heap of dung successfully?

    It brings a whole new meaning to the word SLOW and constantly warns me that it's about to sync something or other (duh! yes, just go ahead ffs!).

    Useless, Apple. Major FAIL.

    Only $99 p.a. Bargain!
    It (now) works like a dream for me.

    I'm syncing - iMac, Macbook, iPod touch & wife's WinXp laptop.

    However, I only use it to sync address books, calendars & bookmarks (just calendars with the wife).

    I've run into trouble syncing widgets & mail accounts before so I just don't bother (all my mail access is IMAP now so a non-issue). Widgets isn't such a big deal as I have lots more widgets on my imac than my macbook.

    I don't often use the web front end - I know that was a problem when it was first launched, but I'll be getting two months free from them at the end of this year for that debacle.

    Also, I have it set to sync automatically. In practice, this means it can take anywhere from 0-5 minutes to get up to "the cloud" and another 0-5 minutes to get propagated out to all devices.

    I rarely get the warning messages about "too much is changing - are you sure" unless the wife has booked loads of social engagements or the macbook has been away from a network for a while.
    ‎"See, you think I give a tulip. Wrong. In fact, while you talk, I'm thinking; How can I give less of a tulip? That's why I look interested."

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