Which is short-sighted of Apple since their two largest competitors offer this service.
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Originally Posted by Smiles77
I gotcha. Thanks for clarifying. You're correct, to use the webmail interface you have to have a .me account. I don't think that's a bug, I think they just never expected anyone to want it for anything else. It's not an email aggregator: it's a web client for their specific service. You've got to have someone already hosting your email, so they would be from whom you'd check your email online. I wouldn't expect Apple to build this functionality in anytime soon.
I am still taken by the fact that when I signed up for Mobile Me I couldn't merge my accounts and had to keep using my old account so that I wouldn't lose my purchases. It doesn't look like they are going to fix this any time soon. Having said that (please bear with me as I am a newbie) How is that going to affect me with ICloud? Meaning I want to sync all my mail, contacts, calendars, notes etc. I also want to sync my Itunes media. Will I have to log in twice on Icloud? How about apps like Pages? I downloaded it from the app store with my old apple id so how would that affect me if i am using mobile me to log in? Like I said I am a newbie so sorry for the stupid questions
Credit to Jony I've for yet another beautiful, simple design.
Somehow I doubt that Jony, the hardware designer, had much if anything to do with this website design
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Originally Posted by ijoe
I am still taken by the fact that when I signed up for Mobile Me I couldn't merge my accounts and had to keep using my old account so that I wouldn't lose my purchases
that's interesting because I stopped using my old sbcglobal.net apple id over a year ago and yet i can still log in and redownload the music etc that I bought with it.
yes but you can't download those purchases using a mobile me account (since it became an apple id as well) What I want to do is have one log in for everything (info and media) using my @me account WITHOUT losing my purchases from my old account. I am not sure if I am making sense here.
Accidentally went to iCloud.net, looks like maybe someone is trying to mess with Apple?
If you're stupid enough to give your actual Apple ID to a website that looks like this:
you deserve whatever they do to you.
On a related note, if anyone happens to have the iCloud account associated with penis@me.com, I used your ID to login there. It just said "you don't have blah blah blah" but it did redirect to the page afterward, so they have that ID on file now.
Just FYI. Not that the password was the right one, though.
I'm been playing around with iCloud.com and it's very well done. There are some kinks that make it not ready for launch just yet but they put an amazing fit and finish on the site. All the other tie-ins to iOS, Mac OS, and Windows are going to make this service indispensable.
One service I'd like to see is iTunes for iCloud that ties into your iTunes Store purchases for streaming or gives you access to your complete iTunes catalog if you sign up for iTunes Match.
I'm been playing around with iCloud.com and it's very well done. There are some kinks that make it not ready for launch just yet but they put an amazing fit and finish on the site. All the other tie-ins to iOS, Mac OS, and Windows are going to make this service indispensable.
One service I'd like to see is iTunes for iCloud that ties into your iTunes Store purchases for streaming or gives you access to your complete iTunes catalog if you sign up for iTunes Match.
+1
I'm buying a Macbook Air soon and I really want to keep it lean and mean which means I'd love to be able to stream content to it rather than take up 30GB of SSD storage for music that I may rarely listen to.
I'm buying a Macbook Air soon and I really want to keep it lean and mean which means I'd love to be able to stream content to it rather than take up 30GB of SSD storage for music that I may rarely listen to.
1) Just checked out iTunes 10.5 to see if you can play the entire audio or video file from with your Purchased list but it's only a 1m:30s audio preview and 0m:30s video preview.
2) I wonder how in-depth the iCloud APIs are iOS and Mac OS. IOW, I wonder if a developer could release a Mac app that works much like Dropbox or iDisk but with tie ins to stream your audio and video from your iCloud storage. For your 30GB that would mean buying the 50GB package at $100 a year but it would an option. Hopefully iTunes Match will have web or iTunes access come the Autumn event so you won't have to wait for a decent option.
1) Just checked out iTunes 10.5 to see if you can play the entire audio or video file from with your Purchased list but it's only a 1m:30s audio preview and 0m:30s video preview.
That's what I keep testing. You can play podcasts at full length, so I'm hoping that eventually this functionality branches out into the music and video portions of the store.
I also can't find any use of Flash on iCloud.com. I know, I know many of you are saying "duh!" but MobileMe's site did and still does use Flash for uploading and downloading files. It's how it accesses the local file system. Not so with iCloud.com.
I'm a bit disappointed by pricing. It would be perfect if it's just the opposite: $10, $20 and $50 for 20, 40, and 100 GB. but a lof of things don't count toward this space so I guess I should try and see how much I really need.
For people who laments the end of iDisk and Gallery please keep in mind that this is only iCloud1.0. I'm sure it will be updated and features will be added regularly just like iOS and OSX.
I so freaking fuckly hope that will be the case! The integration of Gallery & Aperture is so much appreciated and used by me I cannot explain the easiness to a non Mac user. Than again, I don't talk that much to non Mac users - LOL.
But I will need to explore the other photo sharing sites as I don't want to wake up & realize it is June 30, 2012 already. If anything, I'll buy a new MacMini, create a website and do my own photo sharing.
Or you'll have to wait until iOS 5.0 is officially out so you can create a free account to test it out. You can then sync all your Macs information to that iCloud account. This is how I'm doing it since it won't yet let me move my account.
That's a good tip: create a test account and simply copy over (some) data to test iCloud but still retain MobileMe, which I use for photo sharing. That, and iDisk but that one is easily transferred to Dropbox or something similar.
If you're stupid enough to give your actual Apple ID to a website that looks like this:
you deserve whatever they do to you.
Hear hear!
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Originally Posted by Tallest Skil
On a related note, if anyone happens to have the iCloud account associated with penis@me.com, I used your ID to login there. It just said "you don't have blah blah blah" but it did redirect to the page afterward, so they have that ID on file now.
Just FYI. Not that the password was the right one, though.
I once tried to set my password to penis, but it said it wasn't long enough
Picasa is useless for all but the most rudimentary photo sharing. You can delete a picture and an entire album but the link and embed code for it still works days after sitting around in caches. Not good.
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I gotcha. Thanks for clarifying. You're correct, to use the webmail interface you have to have a .me account. I don't think that's a bug, I think they just never expected anyone to want it for anything else. It's not an email aggregator: it's a web client for their specific service. You've got to have someone already hosting your email, so they would be from whom you'd check your email online. I wouldn't expect Apple to build this functionality in anytime soon.
Credit to Jony I've for yet another beautiful, simple design.
Somehow I doubt that Jony, the hardware designer, had much if anything to do with this website design
I am still taken by the fact that when I signed up for Mobile Me I couldn't merge my accounts and had to keep using my old account so that I wouldn't lose my purchases
that's interesting because I stopped using my old sbcglobal.net apple id over a year ago and yet i can still log in and redownload the music etc that I bought with it.
Accidentally went to iCloud.net, looks like maybe someone is trying to mess with Apple?
If you're stupid enough to give your actual Apple ID to a website that looks like this:
you deserve whatever they do to you.
On a related note, if anyone happens to have the iCloud account associated with penis@me.com, I used your ID to login there. It just said "you don't have blah blah blah" but it did redirect to the page afterward, so they have that ID on file now.
Just FYI. Not that the password was the right one, though.
One service I'd like to see is iTunes for iCloud that ties into your iTunes Store purchases for streaming or gives you access to your complete iTunes catalog if you sign up for iTunes Match.
I'm been playing around with iCloud.com and it's very well done. There are some kinks that make it not ready for launch just yet but they put an amazing fit and finish on the site. All the other tie-ins to iOS, Mac OS, and Windows are going to make this service indispensable.
One service I'd like to see is iTunes for iCloud that ties into your iTunes Store purchases for streaming or gives you access to your complete iTunes catalog if you sign up for iTunes Match.
+1
I'm buying a Macbook Air soon and I really want to keep it lean and mean which means I'd love to be able to stream content to it rather than take up 30GB of SSD storage for music that I may rarely listen to.
+1
I'm buying a Macbook Air soon and I really want to keep it lean and mean which means I'd love to be able to stream content to it rather than take up 30GB of SSD storage for music that I may rarely listen to.
1) Just checked out iTunes 10.5 to see if you can play the entire audio or video file from with your Purchased list but it's only a 1m:30s audio preview and 0m:30s video preview.
2) I wonder how in-depth the iCloud APIs are iOS and Mac OS. IOW, I wonder if a developer could release a Mac app that works much like Dropbox or iDisk but with tie ins to stream your audio and video from your iCloud storage. For your 30GB that would mean buying the 50GB package at $100 a year but it would an option. Hopefully iTunes Match will have web or iTunes access come the Autumn event so you won't have to wait for a decent option.
1) Just checked out iTunes 10.5 to see if you can play the entire audio or video file from with your Purchased list but it's only a 1m:30s audio preview and 0m:30s video preview.
That's what I keep testing. You can play podcasts at full length, so I'm hoping that eventually this functionality branches out into the music and video portions of the store.
I'm a bit disappointed by pricing. It would be perfect if it's just the opposite: $10, $20 and $50 for 20, 40, and 100 GB. but a lof of things don't count toward this space so I guess I should try and see how much I really need.
For people who laments the end of iDisk and Gallery please keep in mind that this is only iCloud1.0. I'm sure it will be updated and features will be added regularly just like iOS and OSX.
I so freaking fuckly hope that will be the case! The integration of Gallery & Aperture is so much appreciated and used by me I cannot explain the easiness to a non Mac user. Than again, I don't talk that much to non Mac users - LOL.
But I will need to explore the other photo sharing sites as I don't want to wake up & realize it is June 30, 2012 already. If anything, I'll buy a new MacMini, create a website and do my own photo sharing.
Or you'll have to wait until iOS 5.0 is officially out so you can create a free account to test it out. You can then sync all your Macs information to that iCloud account. This is how I'm doing it since it won't yet let me move my account.
That's a good tip: create a test account and simply copy over (some) data to test iCloud but still retain MobileMe, which I use for photo sharing. That, and iDisk but that one is easily transferred to Dropbox or something similar.
Thanks sol!
I had my hardrive stolen years ago with iTunes purchases and they showed right up. Awesome!
Looks like Steve was right in stating that merely 4% makes routinely, automated backups.
If you're stupid enough to give your actual Apple ID to a website that looks like this:
you deserve whatever they do to you.
Hear hear!
On a related note, if anyone happens to have the iCloud account associated with penis@me.com, I used your ID to login there. It just said "you don't have blah blah blah" but it did redirect to the page afterward, so they have that ID on file now.
Just FYI. Not that the password was the right one, though.
I once tried to set my password to penis, but it said it wasn't long enough
Only in Gmail, no ads in Calendar, Picasa, Docs.
Picasa is useless for all but the most rudimentary photo sharing. You can delete a picture and an entire album but the link and embed code for it still works days after sitting around in caches. Not good.
I once tried to set my password to penis, but it said it wasn't long enough