Transcript Valore_Mobile Me

New Forms of
Technology Project
by V. Valore
What is Mobile Me?
• A service that
keeps &
synchronizes
all your email,
calendar
information,
contacts &
documents
from your
iPhone, iMac or
PC
Mail Contacts & Calendar
• Uses Push
Technology to
update your
addresses &
calendars
automatically from
one device to the
other
Gallery
• Create your own
web based photo
gallery that you can
access from
anywhere and
invite friends to
view and contribute
iDisk
• Your hard drive on
the web makes it
easy to access and
share your
documents
anywhere
iPhone Locator
• Use Find My
iPhone to get
an exact
location of
where your
phone is
Pricing & Purchase
Locations
• Individual: $99/year
(after free trial)
• Family pack:
$149/year
• Purchase at Best Buy,
or anywhere you can
buy an Apple
computer
Drawbacks
• It has been challenging to change the domain email
address to anything other than the @me.com address
– Correspondents could get confused as they receive various
email addresses from you
• Web hosting is very basic
– Jumba hosting + domain (around $60 with domain + basic
hosting)
• Some of the features can be located for free or cheaper
prices
– ZenPhoto if you're after a photo gallery
– WordPress can be automatically installed from via Fantastico
Credits
• http://www.apple.com/mobileme/
• Class: ECOMP 7010