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    Apple MobileMe Family Pack

    Apple MobileMe Family Pack

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    Category: Software

    List Price: $149.00
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    Rating: 2.0 out of 5 stars 16 reviews
    Sales Rank: 268

    Format: Dvd-rom
    Platform: Mac Os X
    Media: DVD-ROM
    Operating System: Mac OS X
    Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.1
    Dimensions (in): 5.5 x 5.3 x 0.6

    MPN: MB825Z/A
    Model: MB825Z/A
    UPC: 885909270262
    EAN: 0885909249909
    ASIN: B001BY0C2U

    Release Date: July 12, 2008
    Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days

    Features:
      • Individual account plus four Family Member accounts, each with its own email address, 5GB of combined email and file storage, and 50GB of monthly data transfer
      • Use a complete set of desktop-quality applications to organize and store your most important information; changes, new messages, and events are automatically synced up to the cloud and back down to all your devices, so you're always up to date
      • MobileMe applications--Mail, Contacts, Calendar, Gallery, and iDisk--feature an elegant, unified interface, drag-and-drop support, and more; works with native applications you use every day--Outlook on a PC and Mail, Address Book, and iCal on the Mac
      • Create stunning online galleries for your photos; share photos with friends and family, let them download print-quality images, and even allow them to add their own photos
      • Store and access files from anywhere using MobileMe iDisk; share files that are too big for email by automatically sending a download link to recipients

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    Editorial Reviews:

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    MobileMe, an Internet service from Apple, automatically syncs your email, contacts, and calendar to your iPhone, iPod touch, Mac, and PC. So wherever you go, you'll always be up to date. Changes you make on one device are automatically sent to a secure online server, the MobileMe "cloud," and back down to your other devices, keeping them all in sync. MobileMe works with the native applications you use every day--Microsoft Outlook on a PC and Mail, Address Book, and iCal on the Mac. Access your email, contacts, calendar, photos, and documents from anywhere with a suite of elegant, ad-free web applications at me.com. Use MobileMe Gallery to share photos with friends and family in a stunning online gallery. Easily store, access, and share large files from anywhere using MobileMe iDisk. With push email, contacts, and calendars, easy photo sharing, an online iDisk, and 20GB of storage, MobileMe keeps everything up to date, anywhere you are. The Family Pack includes one individual account plus four Family Member accounts, each with its own email address, 5GB of combined email and file storage, and 50GB of monthly data transfer.

    It all goes where you go.

    Maybe you have a computer at home, one at work, and an iPhone or iPod touch. And it can be hard to keep them all up to date. But now there's MobileMe. Wherever you are, your iPhone, iPod touch, Mac, and PC are always current and always in sync. And with a suite of elegant new web applications, you can access your data from anywhere.
    • Automatic sync.
      MobileMe stores all your email, contacts, and calendars on an online server--or "cloud"--and syncs them to your iPhone, iPod touch, Mac, and PC. When you make a change on one device, the cloud updates the others. The sync happens automatically and continuously. You don't have to wait for it or remember to do anything--such as docking your iPhone and syncing manually--to stay up to date.

      (Please note: Updates between me.com and iPhone or iPod touch will occur in a matter of seconds; updates between me.com and Macs running Mac OS X Leopard and Windows PCs may take up to 15 minutes when MobileMe is set to sync automatically. Macs running Mac OS X Tiger may experience longer sync times.)

    • Works with the native applications you know.
      Do everything you need to do on every device you own. MobileMe works with Mail, Address Book, and iCal on a Mac; Microsoft Outlook on a PC with Windows XP or Vista; and the built-in applications on your iPhone or iPod touch.

    • Your web applications at me.com.
      Check your email, change your calendar, edit your contacts, and more at me.com. Accessible anywhere, me.com is an ad-free suite of web applications--Mail, Contacts, Calendar, Gallery, and iDisk--that are elegant and easy to use. You can drag and drop, click and drag, use keyboard shortcuts, and even switch between applications with a single click. Me.com is such a great web experience, it seems as if you're using desktop software.

    MobileMe Mail

    Now your email finds you anywhere, so you'll never miss an important message.

    Check your e-mail from an elegantly designed, ad-free interface. Send a quick reply without even opening a message.

    Push. Don't fetch.
    MobileMe Mail syncs new messages to your iPhone automatically and notifies you when they arrive. You'll know in a glance if you have new email, so you don't have to spend time checking.

    Your email meets its match.
    MobileMe Mail stays the same wherever you go thanks to IMAP technology. Whether you check your email on your computer, iPhone, iPod touch, or the web, read messages are marked as read, flagged messages are flagged, and all your folders are exactly the way you left them.

    The best email on the web.
    You can access MobileMe Mail from anywhere at me.com. With a beautiful, clean design and an intuitive interface, you might forget it's all on the web. View your messages and mailboxes in one window and simply drag and drop to organize them. With auto-complete addressing, message previews, and Quick Reply, email on the web is easier than ever. Best of all, you'll never see an ad.

    Native application friendly.
    MobileMe Mail uses the email applications you already know. On your iPhone and iPod touch, it works with the built-in Mail application. It also works with Mail on a Mac and Outlook, Outlook Express, or Windows Mail on a PC.

    Safe. Secure. And no spam.
    MobileMe automatically scans incoming and outgoing messages for viruses. Images are not loaded unless you allow it. With great spam filtering, your inbox will be junk mail free.

    You@me.com.
    With MobileMe Mail, you can create an email address that's personal and easy to remember. Maybe it's yourname@me.com or maybe it's something clever. Whatever you think up, it will be your best email address yet.

    Add contacts, edit details, and even assign photos from any computer. Locate a contact and get directions with integrated Google Maps.

    MobileMe Contacts

    From one place to the next, you're always well connected.

    Your connections in the cloud.
    With MobileMe Contacts, you have instant access to your entire address book. From your computer to your iPhone to the web, your contacts follow you.

    Keep contacts up to date.
    Ever been on the road without an important phone number? With MobileMe, your contacts are synced to all your devices and everything stays up to date. Make a change on your computer, and MobileMe updates your iPhone automatically. Likewise, when you make a change on your iPhone, it's synced to your computer. Whether you use Address Book on a Mac, Outlook, Outlook Express, or Windows Contacts on a PC, or Contacts on your iPhone or iPod touch, you'll always have the information you need.

    Everyone you know is on the web.
    You can also manage your contacts right from me.com. Anywhere you are, add new contacts and groups--even assign photos to them. Find a contact fast with a quick search. Map locations and get directions with integrated Google Maps. Changes made on the web are pushed to your devices automatically.

    No dock required.
    With push technology, all of the contacts on your iPhone, iPod touch, Mac, and PC stay up to date without a dock, a cable, or you doing anything at all.

    Add or change events with a simple drag and drop. Add multiple calendars for work, home, and anything in between.

    MobileMe Calendar

    Wherever you are is where you're supposed to be.

    You're always up to date.
    You'll never miss a lunch date or an important meeting. MobileMe syncs your calendar to your iPhone, iPod touch, Mac, and PC. So you always know where you need to be and when you need to be there. Make a change on one device--such as creating or rescheduling an event--and MobileMe updates it on all your other devices automatically. MobileMe works seamlessly with iCal on a Mac and Outlook on a PC.

    The amazing web calendar at me.com.
    MobileMe Calendar on the web makes being busy a lot more fun. You can create different calendars for work, home, and everything in between. Choose from day, week, and month views and turn calendars on and off for easy reviewing. With a simple drag and drop, add or change an event. Changes you make are automatically synced to all your devices so you're always up to date.

    No dock required.
    MobileMe Calendar syncs calendar changes over the air to your iPhone or iPod touch. You don't have to sync manually with a dock or do anything at all.

    MobileMe Gallery

    It's your own spectacular venue for sharing photos with the world.

    Arrange photos in albums and organize them by event. Add photos and manage albums from your iPhone, computer or any web browser.

    Point. Shoot. Amaze.
    When your friends and family visit your MobileMe Gallery, they're in for a show. Just upload photos from your computer or iPhone to your gallery, and invite people to visit, download their favorites, and even contribute their own. With beautiful animated views, everyone will see your photos come to life.

    Your photos never looked better.
    Friends and family can view your photos in a beautiful gallery using a web browser on a Mac or PC. They can skim albums to see what's inside, select an album, and choose viewing options such as mosaic, carousel, or slideshow. And with automatic resizing, your photos adjust instantly to fit the browser window so they always look great, even on large displays.

    Manage from anywhere.
    You can create a new album or make changes to your MobileMe Gallery from virtually anywhere at me.com. Easily upload new photos, rearrange them, edit titles, and more. Your changes are instantly reflected in your gallery for friends to see. Have a Mac? You can upload photos directly from iPhoto '08 or Aperture 2 with just a few clicks.

    Print-quality downloads.
    You can allow visitors to download high-resolution copies of their favorite photos or entire albums right from their browser. Your photos download as full-size JPEGs (highest resolution) or images optimized for 16-by-20-inch prints (smaller file size).

    Contributions welcome.
    You aren't the only one shooting pictures. With MobileMe Gallery, you can get the shots you wish you had by allowing friends to contribute their photos. They can do it from a browser or via email.

    Amazing with iPhone and Apple TV.
    MobileMe Gallery works beautifully with all your Apple devices. Your photos look great on iPhone. If you snap a picture on the road, you can post it directly to your gallery with just a few taps. And with Apple TV, you can view anyone's public photos on your widescreen television--no computer required.

    Upload files and download from any browser, anywhere you are. Easily share large files by sending an email with a link.

    MobileMe iDisk

    Anywhere you go, you can always get the files you need.

    Your personal hard disk online.
    With MobileMe iDisk, it's easy to store, access, and share files online. You have plenty of storage space--even large files are no problem. Just add the files you need to your iDisk, and whatever you upload will be there for you to download using a web browser on any computer.

    Easy web access.
    MobileMe iDisk is accessible from any web browser, Mac or PC, at me.com. With a familiar, intuitive interface, uploading and organizing files is as simple as drag and drop. You can see your files in list or column view. And if you use a Mac, you can find iDisk right in the Mac OS X Finder.

    Share and share alike.
    Sharing data with friends is a snap with iDisk--even files too big for email. Just upload what you want to share. iDisk will help you send an email with a link to the file. If you have files to share with a group of people, add the files to your iDisk Public folder, where your friends can access them online and post their own.

    Product Description
    Maybe you have a computer at home, one at work, and an iPhone or iPod touch. And it can be hard to keep them all up to date. But now there's MobileMe. Wherever you are, your iPhone, iPod touch, Mac, and PC are always current and always in sync. And with a suite of elegant new web applications, you can access your data from anywhere.

    Imagine running beautifully designed, easy-to-use Apple applications on your PC. At me.com, you can check your email, manage your contacts and calendar, share photos, and store documents. The applications are so intuitive and clutter free that me.com could become your new desktop. On a PC, MobileMe works seamlessly with the applications you use every day. You can use Outlook, Outlook Express, and Windows Contacts on XP or Vista. MobileMe automatically pushes your email, contacts, and calendars ? and even your Safari or Internet Explorer bookmarks ? to your other computers, iPhone, and iPod touch. If you have more than one PC, use MobileMe to keep email, contacts, calendars, and bookmarks the same on all of them. If you have a Mac and a PC, they can share the same information. MobileMe will keep your computers, iPhone, and iPod touch in sync and up to date. Do everything you need to do on every device you own. MobileMe works with Mail, Address Book, and iCal on a Mac; Microsoft Outlook on a PC with Windows XP or Vista; and the built-in applications on your iPhone or iPod touch.



    Customer Reviews:   Read 11 more reviews...

    4 out of 5 stars Working great for me now!   August 11, 2008
    David Nine (Duncan, SC USA)
    1 out of 3 found this review helpful

    I was like most here when MobileMe was launched...it was a nightmare...about the worse product launch I've seen in some time, if not all time. Couldn't get email, web apps didn't load, iPhone set up would crash, etc. Apple was slow and muted to respond.

    But that was then...July 11.

    As of now (Aug. 11), just about everything works great for me. My email is stable and functioning. My contacts are all there. Push calendars, contacts and email works perfectly and instantly with my iPhone, including my Entourage/Exchange items. Syncing between my office desktop and personal laptop is flawless (which by the way, what's the big gripe about a 15 minute interval between PC syncs?! When is it critical for you to have synced information on 2 or more computers within 15 minutes?!).

    There are definitely things that need improving like the dual listings on Exchange/iCal-Contacts entries on the iPhone; the ability to have shared calendars (which right now is limited to CalDAV server solutions like Mac OS X Server); better photo editing/sharing tools on the Gallery; and updates for Backup or another file backup solution to better integrate w/ MobileMe, especially for the Family Pack members.

    Anyway, I'd say give MobileMe a shot now. Lord knows, there have been plenty of other software releases that have had mountains of problems at launch (Vista, Leopard, Lotus, etc.) It definitely does not have a quarter of the issues it had at launch and really has become quite a nice replacement for us previous .Mac users. I find it to be an excellent solution for mobile users, especially those with iPhones and/or Macs.



    5 out of 5 stars Love it!   August 11, 2008
    Donald Barger (Mexico and Alabama)
    2 out of 4 found this review helpful

    Just a little history about me and my use of the software. I was a .mac user prior to mobile me. I switched over from pc about a year ago and have enjoyed the transition. I really like not being asked to fix everyone else's pcs any longer because they are tired of me saying, "Yeah, I don't have that problem on my mac."

    Now the review. What is with all of the hating of this product? I love it. It pushes to my ipod touch, it works well on all of my computers. I do not understand why people are still griping. Did the roll out of this new product go smoothly? No, not in the least but all is well now. It was a rocky transition but Vista is still in transition nearly two years after a roll out.

    For those unluckly 2% that had real mobileme problems, yes, you had it rough for a few days but the rest of us were mostly mad because it did not get started until a day or so after we expected.

    Benefits
    The push feature on email, address book, and calendar are great. I can make a change on my ipod touch (or iphone) and my home computer in another country is updated.

    As an added benefit I really like how everything flows together. I realize that I can publish my pictures on another site but I like how iPhoto integrates into my online gallery. I realize that I can publish videos to any site but I like how iMovie integrates to my gallery.

    Some have said that all of these features in mobile me can be found in other places. Most of the online features are available but they are not integrated, they are unreliable, and who wants all of the advertisements? I had been using these work arounds prior to .mac and now mobileme... it is worth the $112 or so that mobileme family pack costs to not have to deal with the other services.

    After using the service for a few weeks, I upgraded to the family plan so that my wife could use it as well. She loves it.



    1 out of 5 stars Problems still continue 8-4-2008   August 5, 2008
    Robert J. Wiley (Dallas, TX)
    2 out of 2 found this review helpful

    I love mac and apple products. But mobile me is a complete dud. I had .mac since 2007 and it was converted to mobile me.

    I spent two hours on the phone will apple care yesterday, they got a specialist and still they could not get my account to work.

    I have data lost that still has not been recovered. The web interface still is not working.

    I hope this will one day be a good product, but right now it is awful. It is very frustrating that it simply doesn't work.



    1 out of 5 stars Too difficult to use for work place   July 29, 2008
    H. Wu (Cupertino, CA USA)
    4 out of 5 found this review helpful

    I should have listen to all the negative reviews that have been posted everywhere and not just Amazon.com. It is easily one of the WORST product that I have ever used. It simply does not work as advertised.

    Apple advertised that it works well with Outlook on PC but it never bother to tell you that if your Outlook connects to Microsoft Exchange Server, it will not sync with your Contacts and Calenders. It tells you only when you bought the package and then tell you when you are setting up. A big company like Apple could be so sneaky. I guess all the marketings are the same. Boast big deliver little.

    Push emails, contacts and calenders that never push. I sent test emails, imported contacts and calenders. The following day, absolutely nothing got pushed to my iPhone. I finally gave up the following day and not bother to sync my contacts and calenders anymore.

    What a waste of money!!! It is a product that is not ready for prime time yet. For all Apple fanboys, please don't tell me give Apple time to work all the bugs out because it promises a lot of features. If you charge people money, you better deliver good product instead of a piece of JUNK.



    1 out of 5 stars Not family-friendly   July 27, 2008
    20th Century Girl (Long Beach, CA)
    3 out of 3 found this review helpful

    I've subscribed to the .Mac Family Pack for two years, was recently transitioned to MobileMe. MobileMe has been a giant step backward from .Mac.

    Other contributors have noted significant problems with MobileMe, such as not being able to use entries in the Address Book to address email, or having access to email at all for over a week (I can just now view my email via Web, but not in the OS X Mail application, which means I can't file the email locally), but what's significant to me about my Family Pack is that during the transition, the account seems to have been reclassified as "Individual." I can't find an access point to correct the error, don't know if Apple is aware of the problem, or when the issue may go to the front burner for correction. On the bright side, the subaccounts seem to still be active.

    Aside from problems with the rollout, some .Mac features have changed in ways that are less user-friendly, or have been discontinued. The .Mac home page has been discontinued, which not only announced new and updated features, but also posted current system status. Status information is now several clicks away, which is far less convenient for determining if one of the services is down. A popular .Mac feature that's not available in MobileMe is iCards, which many of us enjoyed for staying in contact with friends and family. No equivalent is available in MobileMe.

    If you're only now considering a subscription, the changes won't disappoint you, but I recommend waiting until ALL of the well-publicized issues are corrected before purchasing MobileMe, especially the more expensive Family Pack.


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