‘Take Control of MobileMe’ provides book-length documentation for MobileMe
Posted by Dennis Sellers 
Oct 24, 2008 at 7:30am
Take Control has released a new, 112-page ebook about Apple’s MobileMe online service. It’s written to provide documentation and help readers make the most of their $99-per-year subscription!
Apple’s MobileMe online service has been much in the news lately, since it integrates with the iPhone to seamlessly move contact and calendar information among the iPhone, the MobileMe Web site, and a computer. Along with this whizzy syncing feature, MobileMe offers a virtual Swiss Army knife of options, but one notable lack is detailed documentation. The new Take Control of MobileMe is an ebook by Mac expert Joe Kissell designed to fill that gap.
Kissell first focusses on set up and syncing—what to expect, what kinds of data sync, handling problems, and more. Once that’s covered, Kissell examines these topics:
° Various ways to use an iDisk for storing and sharing files;
° Accessing and updating calendar and contact data on the MobileMe site;
° Using the Gallery feature (alone or via iLife ‘08) to publish photos and movies;
° Publishing a Web site to MobileMe’s servers;
° Enabling Back to My Mac in order to access one of your Macs from another;
° Using MobileMe email, via its web interface, Apple Mail, and an iPhone or iPod touch;
° How MobileMe’s Backup app compares to Leopard’s Time Machine.
Take Control of MobileMe can be purchased for US$10 here.
The book assumes that most readers are using Mac OS X 10.5 (“Leopard”)—and possibly an iPhone or iPod touch, but it also has details aimed at helping those using Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger, Windows XP, and Windows Vista.
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Dennis has been a newspaper editor/reporter (seven years) and teacher (seven years). He has over 10,000 magazine, newspaper and online articles to his credit. He has also covered the Mac and tech industries for over a decade for such online publications as MacCentral, MacMinute and now MacsimumNews.
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