The folks who own iPads and pay $119/year for MobileMe subscriptions have something to be happy about: The MobileMe iDisk app is now iPad-compatible. Of course, that compatibility upgrade also brought iOS4 support for the iPhone version:
What’s New In Version 1.2
- Designed for both iPhone and iPad
- Multitasking support for iPhone 4 and iPhone 3GS (iOS 4 required).
* Quickly switch to another app and back to iDisk
* Play audio from your iDisk while using another app
- When app is opened, the last file or directory viewed is displayed
- Option to open iDisk documents in compatible apps such as iBooks
- When sharing a file, an email can be sent from any configured email account
- The URL for a shared file can be copied and pasted
- Various stability improvements
The app’s free and available in the iTunes store. [iTunes via 9to5 Mac]
Lukasz
Wednesday, July 7, 2010 at 5:14 PMI am one of those folk who own an iPad and pays $119/year for a MobileMe subscription. Friends tell me I need my head checked and I’ve been thinking of late perhaps they’re right.
On point, I was amazed when I first used my iPad that it didn’t come with the iPhone clock and calculator apps and that iDisk and MobileMe Gallery apps weren’t yet iPad compatible.
As for why I need my head checked, here’s one but one reason. I use MobileMe on a desktop, laptop, iPhone and iPad and email synchronisation is frustrating. MobileMe inboxes update whenever a new email is pushed but other folders (including sent items and deleted items) only update when you manually update them i.e. because I haven’t looked at my deleted items on my iPhone for a couple of weeks (aka since I haven’t manually updated) every email I’ve deleted on my iPhone in that time will still be in deleted items on my iPhone though they are not in my deleted items on, for instance, my desktop because I regularly look at that folder.
I presume Apple feel it’s a waste of data to make sure all devices are 100% synchronised at all times but it frustrates the hell out of me.
Similarly frustrating is that events created in iCal using floating time do not sync as one would expect they would with iPhone/iPad. (Or at least as I expected they would sync.) This caused me to nearly miss an international flight last week.
Flight details are typically given in local time and because my flights crossed time zones I created the events using floating time. If you create an event using floating time it will, for instance, happen at 3 pm regardless of what time zone you are in. As events created with floating time don’t properly sync with iPhone/iPad, when my phone changed times zones the calendars on my iPhone/iPad offset the time of the event so that it happened at 3 pm AEST time and not 3 pm local time as floating time ordinarily would. It was a mad taxi ride to the airport after I realised.
Similarly frustrating is that “Stickies”, Apple’ Mac notes, don’t sync across MoibleMe devices and that you can only “Find Your iPhone” using MobileMe and that you can’t “Find Your iPad” using it.
So many more come to mind (so so many more when I consider the limitations of the iPhone/iPad) but I’ll end it here.
Bernhard de Kok
Wednesday, July 7, 2010 at 5:17 PMMe now happy :)
Will Jones
Wednesday, July 7, 2010 at 11:40 PMDoes this mean we can open pages documents from the iDisk directly in iPad?
I suppose uploading documents to it is too much to ask for, but If we could at least open them then thats a big step forward?
CJT
Tuesday, October 19, 2010 at 3:36 AMYour question has probably been answered by now, however, I don’t think, that you can directly access and edit for example a pages file online. I do think though, that you can download this sort of file to your iPad.
On your second point: You can use the goodreader app to upload files to iDisk after you have imported them to goodreader.