Well it has been a full day with Mobile Me, and here are 10 things I dislike in no particular order:

• Mobile Me on Windows won’t sync with Outlook that connected to Exchange
• No other date format on Mobile Me web mail except for the US
• Webmail won’t sort by date with newest at the top (it can’t be changed but doesn’t remember the sorting).
• Syncing the most recent 50 messages on your iPhone doesn’t always give you the 50 most recent (a random section of 50 in 2007 pop up in one of my folders).
• No Reply-To address configurable. This is really annoying!
• Battery Life. Push is hard on battery life, so it would be great if I could use fetch instead (as my information isn’t overly urgent). Fetch can be used for mail, but not calendar and contacts.
• Odd Pushing. New mails seem to push down close to right away, but if I read them or delete them on mail.app, that update seems to take forever to propagate to my phone.
• The experiment continues...

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So after using Activesync with Exchange at work on my iPhone for ages, I’ve now switched over to a trial MobileMe subscription. I couldn’t activesync over the air at work anymore, so I thought I’d give it a go (two months for free so it cant hurt). So far so good with two caveats.

• You can’t sync from a PC to the MobileMe cloud if your Outlook is connected to an Exchange server (eg. your PC at work). This is a large annoyance, but I’m getting around it as Entourage on my Mac will sync with iCal.
• Push. You can set it to push sync or manual. Where is Fetch? For calendar and contacts (as I’m using google for mail) push isn’t required (and flattens the battery), so I’d like it to fetch every hour or so which it can’t. So I’m using manual. It syncs whenever I launch the specific application on the iphone.

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This was such a good idea when I started, but due to relative boredom I’ve been more busy on Facebook and Twitter. In some ways both of those also have the potential to annoy me greatly, and yet have been keeping me busy during the day to day malaise. Twitter is slightly less invasive as it’s really just micro blogging. Off to Forest this weekend for the big game against Derby, boooo sheep shaggers!!

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Snow again in London this morning, and the excuses to not make work have started. Not much snow really, just a half inch dusting or so but clearly they have run out of grit as all the tube platforms had snow sitting on them and the A4 was a pile of slush! BBC say it should give out sometime this morning so hopefully getting home is no problem.

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The snow in London has been amazing, today, at least 6 inches had settled this morning and its snowing again now on Tuesday evening. Diana has put some pictures up on her website and I’ve got a few on this page.

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