MobileMe is useless - Part 1

Hi
Many of you may know of Apple's MobileMe service. It has many features such as bookmark syncing, calendar syncing, online space and finding your lost iPhone. Now a MobileMe subscription costs around AU$119. It is completely ridiculous as I have found a way to easily get almost every feature for free and the few that cost, very cheaply.


iPhone Syncing


This feature is very easy. The first step is to make a Gmail account.


Settings>Mail, Contacts, Calendars>Add Account...>Microsoft Exchange
Then just plug in your email address and password. Your can ignore the domain. On the next screen, input the following settings:


Server: m.google.com
Domain: Leave this blank
Username: your email address


Then ensure Mail, Contacts and Calendars are on. When you press Done, press Keep on my iPhone. This should sync all your contacts, emails and calander information to your iPhone. If it does not work, feel free to email me at ravingsoftechnogeek@gmail.com. Lastly, in your Gmail, go into settings and then to Forwarding and POP/IMAP. Go down to "2. When messages are accessed with POP" and set it to "keep Gmail's copy in the Inbox".




I will continue Mac syncing, Windows syncing and Find my iPhone in the next few posts.

BAD GOOGLE

Oh come on Google, you can be better than that. If you don't know what I am referring to, just go to Google's homepage. Notice anything different? No, you have not accidentally gone to Bing, Google has just straight out copied them.

As many of you know, there are only 3 reasons people use Microsoft's Bing.

1. It is default in Internet Explorer
2. They do not like Google just on principal
3. It has pretty pictures

Earlier this week, Google took away their plain white site background and replaced it with some cool nature pics. There is no way to deny that Google copied them. That is just not how you do things - come on, you have so much original software but you just go and copy other people. You have no idea how disappointed I am with you.

AndrewCow

P.S. I SWEAR the Office 2010 review will be up sometime this weekend

PACMAN!!

PACMAN!! It was it's 30th year anniversary the other day so to celebrate, google being the awesome comapny they are, made their logo not just a pacman dedicated version of google like other holidays, but a WORKING VERSION OF PACMAN in the shape of the google logo. For those of you who missed the 48 hour window where you could play the game, it will still live on at the address: http://www.google.com/pacman/

Go there and you can play like it was the 1980s all over again:) Also, the "I'm feeling lucky" button has been replaced by an "Insert Coin" button which allows you to play with Mrs Pac Man in two player mode using WASD and the arrows.

I hope you have had fun and a video review of Office 2010(that's right 2010) will be up soon:)
AndrewCow