MobileMe - Any improvements since launch?

[James Bond]

I've been looking for a few months for a good way to sync a Calendar, notes, etc, between my Mac, PC, and iPhone.

For notes, I've been using Google Notebook along with an iPhone app called gNotes.
For Calendar I haven't done much. I use Outlook at work, but I don't have a way to push that calendar to my iPhone or Mac.

Is MobileMe the answer I've been looking for? I would like to be able to update the Calendar and notes from any of the three devices.

Mods: Please move to All Things Apple, if you get a chance.

 

[James Bond]

I just signed up for the trial, I guess it couldn't hurt to try it out.

Can I copy contacts from my iPhone to MM? That would be nice.

 

[AstroManLuca]

Shouldn't this be in All Things Apple?

 

[James Bond]

Originally posted by: AstroManLuca
Shouldn't this be in All Things Apple?

I'm not syncing just Apple products. MobileMe relates to PC as much as it does Mac.

Maybe I would get more help there, though 😉

 

[AstroManLuca]

Originally posted by: James Bond

Originally posted by: AstroManLuca
Shouldn't this be in All Things Apple?

I'm not syncing just Apple products. MobileMe relates to PC as much as it does Mac.

Maybe I would get more help there, though 😉

MobileMe is also an Apple product 😉

 

[torpid]

If your IT people will let you, you can sync all the devices by setting your iphone and outlook to sync with google calendar. The outlook part requires installing google sync though, I believe.

 

[Kaido]

For convenience, it's pretty good. My wife really likes it. My main gripe is how slow their web hosting is. Other than that it works fine, there were some rollout bugs, but I haven't seen any problems with it since then.

 

[bigrash]

Originally posted by: James Bond
I just signed up for the trial, I guess it couldn't hurt to try it out.

Can I copy contacts from my iPhone to MM? That would be nice.

Contacts get automatically synced I believe.

MM works pretty well for me. Signed up for the trial last year and bought the full service from ebay for like $30.

 

[AstroManLuca]

I'll stop playing mod 😛

I haven't used it myself, but from everything I've heard, it's pretty nice except for iDisk, which is still very slow. It's up to you to decide whether the other features are worth it.

 

[speg]

Google Sync is WICKED for pushing calander (and contacts) to your iPhone. I'm not sure how easily you can hook up Outlook and Google but if you can, that would work pretty well.

 

[James Bond]

Originally posted by: speg
Google Sync is WICKED for pushing calander (and contacts) to your iPhone. I'm not sure how easily you can hook up Outlook and Google but if you can, that would work pretty well.

I don't see that in the AppStore - is it there?

 

[torpid]

Originally posted by: James Bond

Originally posted by: speg
Google Sync is WICKED for pushing calander (and contacts) to your iPhone. I'm not sure how easily you can hook up Outlook and Google but if you can, that would work pretty well.

I don't see that in the AppStore - is it there?

Nope - no app required

 

[lokiju]

Just use google sync, it's free.

 

[James Bond]

Wow, this is really fucking lame so far :|

http://www.google.com/support/...nswer.py?answer=138740

On that page it tells me that it will ONLY sync the contacts in the "My Contacts" group. I followed the instructions and configured my device to sync contacts with Google through iTunes, and bam, 2 seconds later, my phone is full of like 200 random fucking contacts.

Now I get to spend an hour cleaning all this shit up.