MobileMe: About the mid-September 2008 MobileMe Update
Summary
This article provides more detailed information about some of the recent improvements and the resolution of known issues that Apple delivered in the Mid-September 2008 update to MobileMe services.
Apple is always working to improve MobileMe. Since MobileMe is primarily a server-side, or "cloud"-based, service, the MobileMe team can make improvements and push updates to MobileMe without any action being required of MobileMe customers. Since server-side updates are a bit more innocuous than a standard software update to Mac OS X or Microsoft Windows, it's easy not to notice that updates are occurring. Usually the only hint of these updates is that things just "work better".
Products Affected
MobileMe
All MobileMe Services
- Improved localization for MobileMe web applications
MobileMe Account
- Improved performance when attempting to add a family pack sub account
- Added the MobileMe Control Panel for Windows download to MobileMe Account
- Improved behavior when purchasing an account update
- Disabled unusable buttons for expired accounts
- Improved alert message when applying an activation key to a trial account
MobileMe Calendar
- Improved calendar performance with reoccurring events
- Improved International time zone handling
- Improved experience when first loading calendars
- Resolved an issue where detached events were returning after syncing
- Resolved an issue where the Birthday calendar could disappear if MobileMe sync data was reset
- Resolved an issue where ToDo due dates were being shifted one day forward
MobileMe Contacts
- Resolved an issue where Save Changes dialogue was appearing without changes being made
- Improved searching to better support international characters (for example, é)
- Resolved an issue in Safari where the Google Map of an contact's address would not change when viewing a second contact
- Changed sort order of Groups to be consistant with the iPhone/iPod touch
- Resolved an issue where the Birthday field could only be added to one contact
MobileMe Gallery
- Resolved a "Slow Script" alert in Safari after uploading a large number of photos
MobileMe iDisk
- Resolved an issue where scrolling using the arrow keys on a keyboard was scrolling as expected
MobileMe Sync
- Improved performance of the MobileMe Sync servers