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No aliases or ability to add additional mail account into iCloud mail?
Unless this is just a beta thing, there is no ability to add either aliases to your free @me.com email address under iCloud or add an additional POP mail account. In MobileMe, users could add aliases (additional @me.com addresses that all share the same inbox) and also add another account via POP3 (e.g. mail from your old ISP account). In the above screenshot of the preferences panel from iCloud mail, there was a ‘+’ button in MobileMe where the red square has been drawn.
You can see a screenshot of the MobileMe counterpart with the additional ‘+’ after the break. It’s possible that since this is a free service Apple have decided to cut out some of the whistles and bells, or it could just be that this is to be added at a later date. After all, this panel is kind of pointless unless you can actually add other accounts or aliases. What do you think?…
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Yesterday’s iCloud introduction leaves lots of questions, few answers
Yesterday in the delirium of the WWDC keynote, iCloud seemed like the business – the all-syncing, all-dancing digital nirvana that we could have only dreamed of a few years ago. And we have a feeling that it will pan out this way in the long run, but right now the web is starting to fill up with questions from concerned Apple customers whose current modus operandi doesn’t seem to fit in with the way we currently understand iCloud to work. Questions like “Will my MobileMe account migrate to iCloud?”, “Can I still share my Apple ID with my family for app purchases and still use iCloud?”, “What happens to iDisk?” and “What about MobileMe Gallery?”. The perception is that Apple are suddenly telling us that the way we use our accounts and sync our phones has to change. Unfortunately, while Cupertino have given us lots of information about how wonderful iCloud is, they’ve neglected to provide answers to important questions like these that would inevitably be on people’s minds. So what answers do we have? Read on.…
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iOS 5 announced: new feature round-up
Steve Jobs’s WWDC Keynote has wrapped up and I have to say that this is probably the most exciting and feature-packed non-hardware keynote I’ve ever seen him do. There are some incredible new features being packed into iOS 5 that will really wipe the smug smile from any face that might have been claiming that iOS was getting stale and falling behind the competition. After the break we’ll have a quick round-up of what’s new so read on.…
Read MoreTIP: Make your Xtra or Yahoo! mail push reliably to your iPhone
For as long as I have had an iOS device, I have had my Xtra mail configured as a Yahoo! account, which is widely advertised as providing push mail to the iPhone. The trouble is, I’ve found it incredibly unreliable, and so have others. And it’s not just Xtra mail that seems to be affected, but all Yahoo! mail – my wife’s own @yahoo.com email address suffers the same problem with unreliable push. Sometimes it works, albeit slowly, but most-times it simply doesn’t push at all. A few days ago I decided to do some experimenting and I found a solution – push is now instant and reliable. How? Keep reading for the instructions.…
Read MoreYahoo!’s new mail web app for iPhone is amazing
Yeah, that’s right: I said amazing. Once the leader of the web, expectations of Yahoo! have slipped in recent years, and it’s not often that we get excited about any of their offerings. But their new mail web app (which consequently becomes the web app for Telecom / Xtra mail) for iPhone and iPad is an effort worthy of some attention, so it’s going to get some. …
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Apple Releases New-look Mobile Me
On Friday Apple released it’s new version of Mobile Me, and I have to say, I absolutely love it. It looks very very nice, and much more user friendly I have found. Read on for an overview and pictures!…
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MobileMe Mail Beta hints at new direction for OSX or shift in priorities at Apple
Today I got my invite for the beta version of the new MobileMe Mail interface, and it speaks volumes about where Apple is at right now. Until now, MobileMe Mail (and all other facets of the service) have had a distinctly OSX look and feel. Even while stuck at work on lowly Windows PCs, Mac-heads could escape from it all and pretend that they were using OSX, if only for a minute, by logging in to their MobileMe account through any web browser.
So it’s interesting that the new beta service turns its back on all those OSX icons and instead brings a look and feel that is distinctly iPhone OS inspired. In fact, it’s the spitting image of the iPad’s Mail app.…
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Ask iPhonewzealand: How should I setup my iPhone for Xtra Mail?
Recently, we’ve received quite a few emails from Telecom customers who have had issues sending or receiving emails from their iPhones or who aren’t sure what server addresses to use for SMTP etc. If you’re one of those experiencing issues with Xtra email on your iPhone, there’s an uber-simple solution that you’d be forgiven for overlooking. Details after the ‘read more’.…
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Tip: How to change fonts in the Mail app
Apple. They know style, but they do like to push their vision of it in our face a little. Case in point: the Mail app. Possibly the only HTML mail client I know of that has no option to choose a font. But there is a sneaky way around it that doesn’t require jailbreaking or any third-party apps. Read on for our simple but clever tip!…
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TIP: How to get MobileMe functionality… for free
After a shakey launch and initial few months, MobileMe has once again become an attractive proposition not just for iPhone users but for Mac users and even PC users. But its price point of $140 per year is pretty steep, and places it out-of-reach for many would-be users including myself. So what are the alternatives? In this article I will show you how to get the MobileMe experience using free alternatives.…
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