Since broadband has taken off here in the states (mostly) as well as the rest of the world, people, especially those with older machines that are having a not so easy time keeping up with the increasing demands placed upon them, have started started focusing their attention on cloud services. Of course there is Apple’s paid MobileMe service which is decent, there is Microsoft’s LiveMesh, Google of course has their own venture and host of services to brag about, and today iCloud, founded by Daniel Arthursson and funded by parent company Xcerion, can themselves brag a little louder with the announcement and release of some much improved features.
Did you sign up with MobileMe and have had one, two, three, or more questions/problems that the written FAQ’s and other forum based topics couldn’t answer? Good news English speaking users as Apple announced on this Monday, April 27th, on their MobileMe News Blog that MobileMe will now feature 24/7 Chat support (English only) to help you step your way through your issues no matter what time of day or night, and hopefully get you back on the straight and narrow faster and happier. So turn that frown upside down and give the now voice powered support a shot. Don’t forget to let us know how it goes!
Source: The iPhone Blog
If you were a fan of Apple’s in house email service known as “.Mac”, today will bring a sad announcement and possibly a tear to your eye. Apple has officially stated that July 7th would be the end of .Mac homepages and groups. The homepages you currently have would still be accessible, however you will not be able to edit old, or create new pages after said date. Homepage changes aren’t all that bad as you can still use MobileMe and iWeb to get your life out there. However the .Mac groups feature is really getting the chopping block as everything is being taken offline including group email addresses, group homepages, message boards, and iDisk groups. If you have any of these services set up on MobileMe you’ll want to notify your users of the changes about to take place. Don’t worry about losing data as Apple will be moving anything in a group folder to a “group archive” folder so that you still can access all of those files and memories. When Apple moved from .Mac to MobileMe did you come along for the ride? Is the ending of .Mac while inevitable, still leave you longing for a piece nostalgia?
Source: Macworld
