Apple has just released a FREE App to allow users to access and see their own MobileMe Photo/Movie Galleries as well as the galleries of any other MobileMe user that you happen to know the user name of. This will be great for having instant access to not only your photos, but the photos of friends and family. Also if you want to invite others to look at your photos you can navigate to a particular gallery and simply hit the Email button in the upper right corner to send a link to anyone to get directly to that gallery on the web.
One tap access to your photos
Although you can certainly have all your photos on your iPhone, but chances are you're probably going to have many more photos from events and occasions past that you want to see. So now instead of keeping them on your iPhone or iPod touch you can upload them to your MobileMe Gallery (mobileme account required) and see them in the app. Keep in mind that you'll also need an internet connection to access. them. However, once the photo(s) has been viewed it can be viewed offline from that point forward.
This is cool, but what makes it cooler is seeing the photos of others without having to go to their sites and navigate to their galleries. Now you can just tap the name of a friend and see any new photos that have been uploaded. For example you can see my photography by putting in the name "terrywhite".
You can get MobileMe Gallery here from the App Store:
About Terry White
Terry is the co-author of The Best Selling "The iPhone Book" 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th editions. He has been active in the industry for over 25 years and is the founder and president of MacGroup-Detroit, Inc., Michigan's largest Macintosh Users Group, host of the Adobe Creative Suite Podcast and a technology writer - Terry White Tech Blog.
Thats cool but me personally (imo) would be happier if they just integrated that with the other mobile me app. Thats just what I think.
This is certainly cool but I just couldn’t see to paying $99 a month for the mobile me service.
It's not $99/month. It' s $99 for a YEAR and in most cases can be had for around $70/year as I've linked to it on sale.
I haven’t used my MobileMe gallery much. But with this app I will. I love the look and love how easy it is to see others. Better than flickr.
BTW, my mobile name is linnefaulk
Where is the MobileMe Gallery found in the Finder? I found it in iPhoto, but I can't find it anywhere else. I usually use LightRoom, so would I have to export pictures to the MobileMe Gallery (assuming I ever find it)???
Sam, it's not actually something you would see in the Finder. Your choices to get your photos from LR to MobileMe are to either export the JPGs from LR and a) import them into iPhoto which can upload directly to MobileMe or b) log onto the MobileMe website at http://me.com and upload them yourself. Think of your MobileMe gallery as a website like Flickr. Once you're logged into the website you can create albums and upload shots.