Comments on: Break Away From MobileMe: 7 Free Services to Help You Make the Move

By: James

James — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 17:37:50 +0000

As for me I use SyncMate. It is absolutely free (Contacts and iCal sync) and allows syncing my Mac with Windows Mobile, other Mac and PC.

As far as I know SyncMate also supports Mac and Nokia S40, Sony PSP, Google account synchronization.

You can find detailed information about SyncMate at their homepage http://www.sync-mac.com/syncmate-features.html

By: Johan

Johan — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 10:35:59 +0000

Google now has push !!

With 5 external push email addies

By: Sohrob

Sohrob — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 04:47:35 +0000

Haha yeah I know… Nothing can beat iWeb.

By: JB

JB — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 21:11:23 +0000

::ahem::

Yahoo Calendar > Google Calendar, works much better w/ iCal than Google’s incarnation. (ie. delgates)

By: Jerome

Jerome — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 01:32:51 +0000

Yes but the $99 set back may make it worthy to spend an hour of your life setting those up.

By: Blayne

Blayne — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 03:03:04 +0000

I know i am kind of late but now there is Google Docs which is like Amazon S3 or whatever!!!

By: Studio Daily Blog » Apple adds sharing of large files with iDisk

Studio Daily Blog » Apple adds sharing of large files with iDisk — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 17:24:49 +0000

[...] email addresses I have. I will admit that the iDisk service is a nice feature but there are other alternatives to most everything that Mobile Me offers. Apple is such an innovator in so many things it would [...]

By: WebKarnage

WebKarnage — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 16:11:38 +0000

My google email accounts have the largest amount of server contacting issues of all the emails I’ve ever had, and it still happens regularly. MobileMe had a bit at first, then great, none since.

MobileMe is costly, but very convenient, and I worry about relying on Google heavily, I can see a large trap happening in a few years….

It’s not just Apple apps that use MobileMe easily either, many others do (RapidWeaver etc) and that makes other bits of your digital life easy too.

By: sjuh

sjuh — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 18:39:53 +0000

I started using fruux since i read about it in the comments. It works really exactly like the syncing offered by mobileme. hope to see some in depth coverage about their service soon. would be nice to see a review from people with more clue :-) all i can say is that it works without any issues.

By: Mojito

Mojito — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 04:41:48 +0000

I would also suggest using Zenbe: http://www.zenbe.com My favorite thing about is that you can delete attachments without deleting the message they were attached to. I find it handy for document storage and sharing, too.

By: Vanni

Vanni — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 21:11:37 +0000

On Jan 4th i renewed my MobileMe account. Yesterday I downloaded the trial version of iWork09 to check out the new features. I was able to use the iWork.com feature using my MobileMe Account. I like it. I’m happy with all the features of the MobileMe… and having three machines everything is working just fine and i really like the connivence of syncing between desktops and laptops. Colour me happy.

By: Jack

Jack — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 20:51:27 +0000

All I know is that with 2 Desktops, 2 Laptops (one of which is always on the road) and an ipod touch; MobileMe never worked correctly. It never finished a full sync of the iDisk (which only the road laptop uses) during the 3 month trial. Contacts would never sync correctly with any of the computers even after 6-8hrs of working with the supposed “Tech” support to try and fix it.
Those are the only two services I was definitely after and they could never explain to me why they wouldn’t work.
I’m leaving Mobile me far behind.

By: Markus McLaughlin

Markus McLaughlin — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 05:22:31 +0000

Another possibility for your own web site is to purchase an external ethernet enabled 1TB hard drive, download Joomla, XXAMP for whatever OS you use, Cyberduck, and KompoZer. Be sure to purchase a domain after doing all of that! As far as mobileme-like functions beyond web hosting or your own ftp server, google how to push your own content for free! Just a thought for the cheapskates out there!!!

Markus McLaughlin
linuxglobe.wordpress.com
Hudson, MA, USA

By: martin

martin — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 06:43:22 +0000

try this online clone of apple mobile me gallery: http://yzx.se/imager

By: defilm

defilm — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 23:37:23 +0000

I tried MM in early October. My MB, MBP and Iphone3G were all in sync
in an hour on a Sunday. I get to work Monday, and mail service is out
ALL day! I don’t care how much the service costs, I can not afford to
have my mail down all day.

Reading updates, I tried it again 10/30. Only to experience another outage.

So: DISK, 10GB, super fast, $19/yr, can even use your own domain names: http://www.bingodisk.com
Used WebDav. Unlimited bandwidth.

http://www.filesanywhere.com, $9/mo supports it all. webdav Ical, idisk, sync, across multiple paltforms. I have used it for years on windows, and never once had an outage
that was their fault. I added my MB, MBP and Iphone3G (and yes OmniFocus, 1passed), and
works like a charm. Of course the MB’s are faster as they use a USB UM150 1 x EVDO Verizon
broadband connection where I get up to 2.0Mbs down and up to 1Mbs up. Avg is more like 1.1Mbs down and 384-512Kbs up. Compared to my 3G that rarely runs 3G.. it is a blessing. If an
1 X EVDO rev A verson of the Iphone 3G came out tomorrow for $400, I would toss my newly
upgraded iphone3G (from an Iphone) in the trash.

I love my Mac’s, but really I look at them as : A Multicore processor with Debian Linux, running a Gui of Cocco (vs. Xwindows, KDE), and Parallels VM software with WIndows XP on top.
If another intel dual PC ran Mac OS X 10.5 I would jump in a second. It is hard to run all
that on an Intel MBP that only supports 4Gbs, like the PC’s in the latte 1980’s. Steve???
We can put in 8, 16MB these days… we are no longer using 386SX chipsets….

I have no affiliation with FIlesanywhere, or bingodisk. BTW, I use Bingodisk even though
an Idisk comes with files anywhere because Bingodisk is notedly faster, and at $19 for 10GB
how can you go wrong??

IMHO, Steve Jobs and Bill Gates have a lot more in common.

By: Edgar

Edgar — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 23:27:58 +0000

Not to keep bangin the same drum here, but it probably takes me more time to write this that it would take me to setup MM again! Beat that google+DropBox+Fruux+whatever…. !

By: ecchi

ecchi — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 22:25:00 +0000

Yay, time to repeat myself.. again

@John Smith:
Its not 7 different services, and it certainly doesn’t take 3 hours to setup. With Google as the SERVICE PROVIDER, they all work in tandem, just like MobileMe does. So in retrospect, your only getting 3, maybe 4 different services tops. Google(GMail, GSites, GCal, Picasa, GContacts, etc) + DropBox is a pretty good substitute. Fruux + DropBox is also interesting, but you’d still need to add a email solution in there (which would put it at 3 different services, but would provide a better Contact-sync solution).

By: John Smith

John Smith — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 17:35:47 +0000

This is sort of the thing, though — using 7 disparate services to replace .Mac is a LOT more work on your part. Sure, you can save $99/year, but if I have to spend 3 hours setting up those accounts, it’s not worth my time.

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