8 posts and columns on iDisk

What To Do After MobileMe Goes Away?

in Mossberg’s Mailbox on June 29, 2011 at 3:25 pm PT

Walt answers a reader’s question on what to do with data stored on MobileMe after it goes away.

In and Out Of Office: Putting iPads To Work

in Personal Technology on March 16, 2011 at 6:13 pm PT

A brief primer on how to get such documents into and out of an iPad, and how to view, edit and create them on the tablet.
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Apple Reaching for the Cloud With MacBook Air and N.C. Data Center

in News on October 23, 2010 at 3:30 am PT

Steve Jobs says the MacBook Air is the future of the MacBook and the future of the notebook as well. But if that’s to be the case, the machine–and Apple’s ecosystem–needs to evolve a bit more to appeal to that strata of user tethered to the high-capacity hard drives that the Air has summarily dispatched.

OS X 10.5.8 Kills Bugs Dead

in News on August 5, 2009 at 4:17 pm PT

Apple on Wednesday released OS X 10.5.8, the latest point release to Mac OS X Leopard, even as Amazon takes pre-orders for its next iteration–Snow Leopard (OS X 10.6). 10.5.8 is largely a maintenance update, though it does patch a number of security vulnerabilities (18 to be exact), some of them fairly old.
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Quickoffice Brings Editing to iPhones, But Put It on Hold

in Personal Technology on May 6, 2009 at 6:04 pm PT

The iPhone Quickoffice app allows users to create and edit Word and Excel documents, but getting files into the app is a pain.
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Kinoma Touches Up Clunky Windows Mobile

in The Mossberg Solution on August 26, 2008 at 2:36 pm PT

Kinoma Play is one application that is desperately needed by Windows Mobile users, and it just might remind them that there’s a better way to navigate media and media-related Web services without needing to buy a new mobile device.
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5 Days of Technical Problems? MobileMe Really is "Exchange for the Rest of Us"

in News on July 16, 2008 at 7:40 am PT

After five days without comment, Apple today acknowledged that the rollout of its MobileMe suite of Internet services was, in the company’s own words, “a lot rockier than we had hoped.” In a message to MobileMe subscribers, Apple apologized for the service’s troubled debut and its lack of “true push” capabilities and offered them a subscription extension to allay any hard feelings.

5 Days of Technical Problems? MobileMe Really is “Exchange for the Rest of Us”

in News on July 16, 2008 at 7:40 am PT

After five days without comment, Apple today acknowledged that the rollout of its MobileMe suite of Internet services was, in the company’s own words, “a lot rockier than we had hoped.” In a message to MobileMe subscribers, Apple apologized for the service’s troubled debut and its lack of “true push” capabilities and offered them a subscription extension to allay any hard feelings.