MobileMe Control Panel V1.3 Now Available for Windows Users

[Jeff Campbell]

<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/02/11/mobileme.control.panel.13/' target='_blank'>http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/02...ntrol.panel.13/</a><br /><br /></div><p><em>"Apple has released version 1.3 of the MobileMe Control Panel for Windows. The panel is a required tool for users wanting to sync and manage MobileMe and iDisk in Windows."</em></p><p><em><img src="http://images.thoughtsmedia.com/resizer/thumbs/size/600/at/auto/1234422252.usr105634.jpg" /></em></p><p><em></em></p><p>The update is required if you want to manage your <a href="http://www.apple.com/mobileme/" target="_blank">MobileMe</a> and <a href="http://www.apple.com/mobileme/features/idisk.html" target="_blank">iDisk</a> in Windows. This also adds a nifty icon in the system tray to signal a sync in progress. You can get more info at the <a href="http://support.apple.com/downloads/MobileMe_Control_Panel_for_Windows" target="_blank">Apple site</a>.&nbsp;</p>

[Dyvim]

I installed this yesterday and it's a big improvement. Love the sync icon as now you can actually tell when it's synchronizing (previously you had to right-click to bring up the context menu and if "Sync Now" was grayed out then you knew it was currently synchronizing). I did a lot of testing (incidentally I was modifying almost 100 contacts in Outlook on my main PC) and changes appeared on my iPhone in about 30 seconds from pressing Save on the PC- that's more than good enough for me.

What I'm really excited about today though is Foxmarks- I have MobileMe sync my Safari bookmarks but honestly I prefer to use Firefox on both PC and Mac and they're not supported. But I'm hoping Foxmarks will tie them together for me.

[Jeff Campbell]

Hey let us know if it does work syncing with Firefox and Safari. The only reason I use Safari is because it syncs with my iPhone. I prefer Firefox so if I can get those bookmarks to sync with Safari then I would be happy camper :-).

[doogald]

Hey let us know if it does work syncing with Firefox and Safari. The only reason I use Safari is because it syncs with my iPhone. I prefer Firefox so if I can get those bookmarks to sync with Safari then I would be happy camper :-).

It sure as heck works great! The only issue I had was the Foxmarks decided to alphabetize my bookmarks at some point, but that was pretty minor.

[Dyvim]

It does work. I started off syncing Firefox on 2 PCs and then on my 1 Mac. (Each time I exported my bookmarks on each machine before and after merging as a safeguard.) Then I added Safari sync on my Mac. As soon as I did that, MobileMe pushed the Safari bookmark changes to my iPhone and Safari on my 2 PCs (giving me the usual MobileMe overwrite warning on the PCs due to the massive one-time changes).

To be safe, I would make sure to only use Foxmarks for Safari on 1 machine. That should be all you need as MobileMe will handle pushing the bookmarks to Safari on your other machines.

If I had known about Foxmarks earlier, I could have saved myself a lot of hassle syncing my Firefox bookmarks on all my machines. Now it's even better as I can keep Safari (and via MobileMe my iPhone) in sync as well as Internet Explorer (although I'm not sure I care about that since I hardly ever use it).

This just made MobileMe that much more valuable. The bookmarks sync thing didn't do much for me since I primarily surf in Firefox - now I'm finally in sync.