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Rethinking MobileMe and iPod Touch as ultra-portable

I find that I use my iPod Touch as a music/video player only incidentally. With the wireless option and the app store my iPod Touch is more of a PDA/game machine. I carry it around the house and now use my laptop for other things ( editing photos and video, etc. ). At work, we now have a wireless guest network setup ( separate from the corporate LAN ) and when I am near a conference room or sitting neat…

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Mounting MobileMe iDisk on Windows XP

One of the discussions on the Apple MobileMe iDisk forum is how to get iDisk mounted as a drive on Windows XP. While Apple has provided instructions on how to do this on Vista nothing was said about XP. The solution that worked for me was similar to the one that Apple provided for Vista and involves using the "Add Network Place" wizard. If you’re using Windows XP, open the Explorer, click Computer, and then click “Map network drive” in…

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MobileMe ate my contact list.

After composing an email in Gmail yesterday, I went to the address bar and started typing in my wife's name.   Normally Gmail would present me with a drop down of choices, but in this case, I was present with only her MSN account email.   Strange?  Until I read this on the MobileMe status blog. Yesterday (Monday) morning a syncing bug was discovered which caused contact and calendar data not to sync properly over-the-air with iPhones and iPod touch.…

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MobileMe and Time Capsule

  MobileMe and Time Capsule, originally uploaded by Khürt on 26th July, 2008. I have a Time Capsule with NAT turned on. The wireless network is configured for WDS between the Time Capsule, and Airport Extreme Base Station and an AirPort Express. I connected the MacBook directly to the Time Machine and still get the same error.…

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