EXTReeeME.Org

Just struggled through not getting the latest news, watching the WWDC-Keynote spoiler free and catching up the latest news. SO I’m back in the civilated World to get you my thoughts about it. This Time MobileMe

MobileMe is, as Apple says it, Exchange for the Rest of us. And even more, if you ask me. As it’s cool for the average Joe, what does it give us? The Filmmakers? Is it usefull? Worth spending the Money? Lets thake a look.

What do we get?

Apple gives us a lot with this service. Let’s break it down.

Exchange replacement

Apple fully replaces the Features of Exchange, like Push Mail, Push Contacts and Push Calendar. With this they send you new Mails, Contacts or Appointments from the Server you’re connected to directly to your iPhone, Mac or PC. Every Software that can use Exchange will be used with this. So lets say you’re on your PC, using a Mailprogram. Let’s hope its not that Messysoft thing, but Thunderbird or so. Someone sends you an E-Mail and it will be pushed to your PC. Imagine that right in this Moment you get a call to please come as quick as possible to whereever. Grab your iPhone open Mail and there it is. The same Mail. While driving to whereever you answer that e-mail and send it with your iPhone. Arriving at home your PC already knows the mail was answered. Or make an appointment while driving. Ad it to your iPhones Calendar and have it pushed to your PC also. And this all secured by Cisco-Standarts.

Me.com

The next big thing. Me.com. Fully replaces .mac and enhenches it a lot. Let’s say you forgot to take your iPhone with you. Arriving at the Hotel you go to the internet, go to me.com and everything is there. Your Mail in a desktop-like enviroment, your contacts, your calendar. Even your Pictures and files are there, available online, reachable from virtually any device that can browse the net (Some ajax, java and so forth needed). You can even send Pictures you got via e-Mail to your gallery. The iDisk gives you enought Space to share big files with someone via e-Mail. Just upload a rough cut of your last shooting days footage and send the Link to the director. Upload your on-set Photos made with your iPhone and it will be online in a gal that you can link to on your website. It gets really easy, as everything is manageble via one place, me.com

If you use a mac the iDisk will be connected like a normal drive inside your Mac, so drag and drop files to it from inside your finder. No longer playing with buggy ftp, just upload, go to me.com, send the link via email and your ready to go. Big timesaver. And as you have 20 gigs of storage it should be no problem to stay inside your limits.

Conclusion

You can work with the Tools you know and use this featurefull service. Use your favorite Mailapp, use your iPhone, even your iPod. Use it on PC or Mac. The best thing. It’s two month free to test, then it’ll cost you 99$ a year for all this service and 20Gigs of onlinestorage. I’ll use it. The Price is unbeatable. It’s really good, but even better with the new iPhone anounced that I’ll tolk with you later about.

Screenshots

Here you’ll se some of the Screens of the WebApp at Me.com

Links

More about MobileMe at Apple.com

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