[Frigidman]

Hey, this has been bugging me for a long while now (ever since they introduced it and forced this popsnizzle into my menubar), but is there a way to eliminate that stupid MobileMe Sync circle icon thing in my menubar?!

I have absolutely no inclination to ever use that another-name-for-a-chicken-sucking service, and the stupid icon looks too much like my Time Machine icon, and I am sick of running across it all the time up there! I have dug through the prefs for it and cannot find any checkbox to 'show in menubar'. I mean, everything else appears to have an option for that, so why not MangleMe?

Hrm.

[Frigidman]

Think I figured it out. holding -cmd- then drag the fire trucker off the menubar.

Apparently there IS a checkbox option to show it in the menubar, but you have to either sign up for the junk, or have an account already! Bah, jerkoffs.

Anyhow, its gone for now, hope it remembers that and stays that way.

[the Battle Cat]

Frigidman, on December 24th 2008, 12:00 PM, said:

Anyhow, its gone for now, hope it remembers that and stays that way.

After all those mean things you just said about it? Not likely. Now it has it out for you, waiting, biding its time. Oh you'll think it's gone, yep, and just when you get that smug look back on your face ... BAM!

[Brad Oliver]

Frigidman, on December 24th 2008, 01:00 PM, said:

Think I figured it out. holding -cmd- then drag the fire trucker off the menubar.

Now if only we could figure out how to disable the lame swear filter!

[devSin]

Frigidman, on December 24th 2008, 12:00 PM, said:

Think I figured it out. holding -cmd- then drag the fire trucker off the menubar.

Yes, this works for every menu extra. You can also reorder them as you desire by holding down Command and dragging them to a new location on the menu bar. Surprise, this also works for standard toolbars in every application.

Frigidman, on December 24th 2008, 12:00 PM, said:

Apparently there IS a checkbox option to show it in the menubar, but you have to either sign up for the junk, or have an account already! Bah, jerkoffs.

This is the SyncServices icon, not a MobileMe icon. You could simply launch iSync and disable the "Show status in menu bar" option. Now that you've manually removed the icon, the option should already be off.

[striderdm1]

'junk'? Wow I love MobileMe... perhaps it's just me? lol

[DaveyJJ]

striderdm1, on December 30th 2008, 08:12 AM, said:

'junk'? Wow I love MobileMe... perhaps it's just me? lol

No. From my inside source at Apple I'm told there's at least two other people signed up*. But that does make you 33% of the market, yes.

* One of these is still in his/her trial period though.

[Frigidman]

DaveyJJ, on December 30th 2008, 09:49 AM, said:

No. From my inside source at Apple I'm told there's at least two other people signed up*. But that does make you 33% of the market, yes.

* One of these is still in his/her trial period though.

ROFL!

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It was part of iSync? Hm. I figured it was mobileme cause all the menu had in it was 'enable mobileme' option. Oh well, its gone now.

[striderdm1]

Thanks!!

[Kaoro]

I like MobileMe... but I don't think it's worth $99/year. But I have so much crap associated with my .mac email that I can't get rid of it .

[Frigidman]

Kaoro, on January 7th 2009, 01:06 PM, said:

I like MobileMe... but I don't think it's worth $99/year. But I have so much crap associated with my .mac email that I can't get rid of it .

They have you! NO!!!

[striderdm1]

Kaoro, on January 7th 2009, 06:06 PM, said:

I like MobileMe... but I don't think it's worth $99/year. But I have so much crap associated with my .mac email that I can't get rid of it .

Not to sound nasty or anything, but if you have it then find some uses for it. Otherwise you're wasting money, not good
I love my MM acc, got lots of family pics and movies for us all here. Plus my two sites and a gallery amongst other uses. I like it, though i do wish it was a little cheaper!

[teflon]

yup, switching email address is like getting a new mobile, except much much worse.
At least with a phone you get the opportunity to port over your phone number, so that you dont have to send out a mass text message... But with email addresses, you have to either send out a mass email address, OR hope that you can keep that email address usable (ie, not paid for and/or not prone to closing without constant use) and forward all the incoming mail...

so once youre latched into .mac or whatever else (emails tied to your ISP are worse) youre pretty much stuck. Of course, you do get a few hosts, like Gmail, that are very accommodating to forwarding mail etc. etc.

[Kaoro]

striderdm1, on January 7th 2009, 02:16 PM, said:

Not to sound nasty or anything, but if you have it then find some uses for it. Otherwise you're wasting money, not good
I love my MM acc, got lots of family pics and movies for us all here. Plus my two sites and a gallery amongst other uses. I like it, though i do wish it was a little cheaper!

Well I do use some of it... The calendar/bookmark/address book sync is awesome. My upload speeds are so bad that using the iDisk for any type of big file is not really a sane thing to do. That and I'm not comfortable putting myself on the interwebz.

Yeah the email thing is pretty bad. One time I let my .mac sub expire and they instantly stopped my access to my inbox . They could at least give you a warning to migrate stuff over.

[charmin]

The sync is good stuff, especially with the 3rd party apps that support it (Transmit). I don't use the iDisk because I rent much more server space than their measly 10GB, and so far I've only used the gallery for 1 person + 4 photos, though I'd like to get around to using more.

The trouble with being a massive nerd is that there's almost always a better alternative I can hack together from OSS (though the syncing is good enough that it's just not worth my time to try and simulate it).

As for e-mail, domain names ftw. I can change e-mail provider in a heartbeat without losing a single e-mail, though if I want to change my domain provider it gets a bit uglier..