Apple offers MobileMe users another free 60 days

Apple has given MobileMe users another free 60 days to make up for the service's rocky launch.

Comcast: No new traffic management plan yetComcast says it's looking at slowing traffic for its heaviest users during times of network congestion.
RapidWeaver updated to 4.1RapidWeaver has been updated simplifying the process of building a Web site.

Review: Facebook 1.1 for iPhone
Facebook boasts 90 million active users—the company's iPhone app lets you stay in touch with your little subset.
Review: Firefox 3.0
Powerful and polished, Firefox 3 improves on its predecessor in nearly every respect. However, users may not get all of the dramatic speed boosts promised.
Review: NetTrekker educational search engine
If your child spends many hours on the Internet researching his or her homework, a yearly subscription to NetTrekker will prove to be an affordable, efficient, and trustworthy aid.
Review: NetNewsWire for iPhone and iPod touch
iPhone version of the popular Mac newsreader has lots of potential, but it could take a few cues from its Web-app predecessor.
Review: MobileMe 1.0
MobileMe is a rebranded .Mac, but the service offers one stellar feature that may convince new people to subscribe. Some information can now be synchronized among devices as it changes.

Earthlink and the devil's spam filter
Want to make friends and influence people? Dial down Earthlink's address-approval "feature."
The limits of iPhoto slideshows
Are iPhoto slideshows completely un-shareable? Limited, yes, un-shareable, no.
Bugs & Fixes: Vanishing contacts and calendar events
Ted Landau tells you what to do if contacts and calendar events synced via MobileMe suddenly disappear from your iPhone. And he returns to smart flash drives, the subject of last week’s column.
Force subscribed calendars to sync to MobileMe
MobileMe won’t sync all the events from your subscribed calendars. Until such time as it does, this hint provides a usable, if not perfect, workaround.
Troubleshooting MobileMe calendar syncing
A tale of working through MobileMe calendar-syncing conundrums.

When Apple's reach exceeds its grasp
The troubled release of MobileMe, along with iPhone 2.0 and App Store snags, suggests that perhaps Apple is trying to create too many innovative products at once, says Jason Snell.
Google and Yahoo strike deal, Microsoft's out
PC World looks at the aftermath of the Google-Yahoo deal—particularly how it affects one-time Yahoo suitor Microsoft.
The Apple of the future
The Apple of five years from now will most certainly be different from the Apple of today. But as Dan Moren suggests, it probably won’t be a future anybody can predict.
Analysis: Microsoft should focus on strengths
Microsoft should consider putting its search-advertising endeavors on the back burner for now and attempt an end run at Google by trying to become a leader in the display-, video- and mobile-advertising markets, where no company is a clear leader yet.
Opinion: What Microsoft’s Yahoo bid means for Mac IT
John C. Welch looks at two Yahoo products used by Mac IT administrators that face an uncertain future if Microsoft is successful in its bid to buy Yahoo.