Apple adds another 60 days free for MobileMe members


Apple has sent out another email detailing an additional free extension for members of the £59 per year MobileMe Service, this time 60 more days on top of the 30 already provided last month as an apology. A total of three months extra is very generous, and a sign that the company is not only looking to recruit new subscribers to the service from the world of Windows, but to ensure that those of us whose accounts date back to the days when it was called .Mac, and was for Mac users only, stay along for what has so far been a very bumpy ride.

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Tuesday, August 19th, 2008

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iPhone applications make a cool phone even cooler


The above is a screenshot taken using the Home button on my new iPhone 3G, to show just how extensively the setup can be customised with all manner of add-on applications via the App Store in iTunes, some incredibly useful, others not so. Stuff like Phone, Mail, Safari (the web browser) and iPod are standard, as are Photos, Maps, Weather, and a few others. I’ve added Twitterific, Remote, Facebook, Mobile News—and of these, the most brilliant is Remote, which allows you to use an iPhone or iPod Touch to control your iTunes playback from anywhere in your home. I don’t know how we got along without Remote. It’s simply brilliant. Many apps are free, and I for one haven’t paid for any yet but I may well do so if one comes up at the right price and seems potentially useful to me.

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Sunday, July 13th, 2008

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