to mobile me, or not to mobile me?
i really love my mac mini. and i've been using a service called spanning sync to [somewhat] solve my syncing problems between gmail, my iPhone, mac mini, and my laptop. it's been working great between my gmail and mini (and thus my iPhone), but it has been weak for my laptop. lots of calendar events don't show up, contacts doubled, etc.
this service costs about $25/year, which is a lot of money. more than anything, if i ever choose not to use it, i'm kind of screwed unless i have a different solution.
enter: different solution. i think.
i've been considering using mobile me, the apple service that provides 20gb of storage, syncing between all your computers (over the internet, and thus, from anywhere), and email and some websites and such. i haven't wanted to use it, really, because it's a whopping $100/yr, i don't need the 20gb (peterdot's servers already have plenty, and i backup to my time capsule at home). but one thing i've learned as a mac user is that it's easiest to just let apple do things the way apple wants (for example, i hate iPhoto, but using it makes my iPhone far more valuable to me).
and now the new iPhone software has a "where's my iPhone?" thing, which locates your iphone in case it gets stolen or lost.
so what do i do? should i ditch the spanning sync and use mobile me? there's a 60 day free trial, so i guess i could at least try it...
comments:
Yeah! Try it!
kate | June 19 @ 8:30am