How to allow others to upload files to your MobileMe gallery

You can publish your photos and movies to your MobileMe gallery, but that’s not all you can do. You can also allow your friends and family to upload their own photos to your albums and to download their favorites of your photos.

Click the Gallery icon in the MobileMe toolbar to open the My Gallery window.
Create a new album in your MobileMe Gallery by clicking the + button.
In the Album Settings dialog box, name your album.
Select the settings that you wish to apply to your album.
To allow people to upload photos to your gallery, select Allow: Uploading of Photos via Web Browser.
To allow people to download your photos, select Allow: Downloading of Photos or Entire Album.
Click Create.

Now when people visit your gallery online, Upload and Download buttons will be active if you’ve enabled these options; otherwise, the buttons appear but are grayed out. Visitors can select a photo and click Download to transfer the file to their own computer, or they can click the Upload button and add their own photos to your album.

Share large files with MobileMe

If you’ve ever tried to send a large computer file via e-mail, you probably already know what a hassle it can be. Slow upload times and limits on file sizes and types can make it a Herculean task even when using compression software. To avoid these issues, you can use MobileMe iDisk to share your large files.

Click the iDisk icon (the cloud icon) in MobileMe online.
Click the directory that contains the file you want to send. If the file you want isn’t already synced with MobileMe, click the Upload button to upload a file from your computer.
Click the file, and in the next column, click Share File.
Enter the recipient’s address in the new window. Type a personal message if you want and then click Share.

Once you’ve clicked Share, an e-mail will be sent to the people you’ve selected with a link so that they can download the file.

Find a Lost iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch

One really cool thing that you can use MobileMe for is to find a lost iPod touch, iPad, or iPhone. Click the Find My iPhone button in the MobileMe toolbar and you’ll be taken to the location page. You must register your device and make sure that it is running the appropriate software before this service will work.

Once you’ve registered your device, as long as your iPhone (or iPad/iPod touch) is on, you will be able to track its location on the map. You also have the ability to send a message to your iPhone that will appear on the main screen or to play a tone, even if the iPhone is in silent mode.

If you’ve simply misplaced your iPhone or left it somewhere where it can be retrieved, you can remotely place a lock on the iPhone so that no one will be able to use it until you return for it. Perhaps most importantly, if you believe you will not be able to recover your iPhone (if you know it’s been stolen, for example), MobileMe gives you the means to perform a remote wipe of the system.

This wipe will remove all of your data, personal settings, and personal information from your iPhone or iPad and restore it to factory settings. It will not, however, affect your wireless service.

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