MobileMe: Service Updates as of December 22, 2008

  • Last Modified: December 22, 2008
  • Article: HT3344

Summary

The MobileMe service has recently been updated with many fixes and improvements as described below.

Products Affected

MobileMe

Contacts

  • Searching for contacts in a large address book (more than 1000 contacts) is faster and no longer results in a "slow script" browser alert message
  • Exported vCards with multi-line addresses or notes can now be imported into the Mac OS X Address Book
  • Adds keyboard shortcut to create a new contact
  • Additional formatting options for European phone numbers are now supported

Calendar

  • Adds sorting of To Do items by calendar or title
  • Long event titles now appear properly in Month view

Gallery

  • Updated "Tell a friend" email message
  • Resolves an issue related to setting a new album's key photo

iDisk

  • Files and folder names that contain Japanese language characters now display properly on the web

Account

  • Hosting of iWeb pages can be configured for personal domains ending in ".eu", ".ax", ".tl", ".gw", ".kp", ".rs" or ".su"
  • Family Member accounts now display the accurate renewal/expiration date
  • Resolves an issue that prevented some members from using an activation key (MobileMe box) to renew a subscription

Login

  • "Keep me logged in for two weeks" checkbox now works reliably

Additional Information

For the best MobileMe experience, you should use the latest versions of Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard (if you use a Mac), MobileMe Control Panel (if you use a PC), and iPhone software (iPhone or iPod touch).

For a comprehensive list of previous updates see this article.

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