Version 1.1 of the MobileMe iDisk app for the iPhone and iPod Touch is now out. It does the following: Auto-complete email addresses when choosing recipients for a shared file File sharing emails are automatically saved to your Mail account’s Sent folder When viewing an image, tap and hold to save it to your photo roll or copy it to another app Maximum setting for cache size is now 500MB (up from 200MB) Faster downloads Various bug fixes Localizations for Chinese, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Italian, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish
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Flow: Amazon S3, iDisk
Flow is a nice little FTP client. But it also supports WebDAV and SFTP as well as Amazon’s S3 and mounting an iDisk from a Mobile Me account. Unlike JungleDisk it doesn’t seem to mount S3 as an actual disk in Mac OS X, but it can be used to take files from iDisk to S3, which is fairly interesting. Flow also supports discovering all of the local services over Bonjour, which can be pretty helpful. Overall, it’s a nice little application that’s pretty sleek and I look forward to seeing where they go with it.
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iDisk + Word
I have been a .Mac/MobileMe subscriber for a long time. But until recently I had never bothered to use any of the services other than mail. Then I started to use my iDisk. Today, I had written a couple of pages of my upcoming book since my last full save and then viola – Word crashed. I’m not used to Word crashing often, but I have Word set to autosave every 5 minutes, so when it does crash I’m not all that overly concerned as the damage is minimized. However, Word was unable to find the Auto-recover location and so was not actually autosaving, nor telling me it wasn’t. So…
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Accessing MobileMe Public Folders
Public Folders in Mobile Me can be password protected. They can also be set as Read Only, using the iDisk tab of the MobileMe System Preference pane. Here, in a section called Your iDisk Public Folder you will see an option to Allow others to: and you will be able to set this to Read only or Read and Write. If you set it to Read only then while users will be able to see the files you store on your iDisk they will not be able to alter them. If you set it to Read and Write then other users will be able to upload to your Public Folder.…