Hi Marlaina, I think I originally posted this on the viphone list in answer to Scott Howell, so that means searching the archives would have to be done with the Google Groups web pages and the post could be hard to locate, but the way to avoid extraneous busy activity when logging into the MobileMe web site is to append the section you want to log into at the end of the address. That means that you add a slash and then "account", or "mail", or "find" (for "Find My iPhone"), or "calendar", etc. like this: http://www.me.com/account http://www.me.com/mail http://www.me.com/find
The address will resolve to a secure web address once your enter it into the Safari address field (e.g., if you used Command-L to move to the address field and typed this in, you'll get pointed to an address that begins with "https://"; instead of the normal "http://"; without the "s" at the end of "http"). I think that normally the main web page runs a javascript for your selection of the area of MobileMe you want, and this leads to busy messages. The other way you could get to your accounts screen is by going to the "MobileMe" menu in "System Preferences" (Control-F2 or VO-M to the menu bar, arrow down, press "s y" to "System Preferences", then navigate to "MobileMe" and VO-Space). I don't know whether you've already set up MobileMe for your computer. On systems with no MobileMe setup, there will be a login that lets you sign in with your Member Name (e.g. <your_name at me dot com>) and password in the text boxes, and then a "Sign In" button you can press (VO-Space). The other part of that pane will be a "Try MobileMe" side with button to a web page for trial subscription. If you have signed into MobileMe, then you'll find instead four tabs -- "Account", "Sync", "iWeb", and "Back to My Mac". Pressing the button for "Account Details" on the "Account" tab basically takes you to the Safari Login page for MobileMe, and will open up in your Account page after you log in. (I find it easier to just type the MobileMe URL address with the appended slash and "account", as described earlier, but this will also work.) HTH. Cheers, Esther On Mar 1, 2011, at 17:08, Marlaina Lieberg wrote: > Hi all. > > I am in flight again, this time on Southwest, and trying to log in for the > first time to my mobile me account. All I hear each time Safari gets focus > is safari busy. Yet when I leave focus and command tab over to mail, safari > seems to straighten itself out. Is this possibly because I am on a slower > satellite link perhaps? Or, have others had this issue with me.com. > > > Thanks so much. > > Marlaina, up in the air with her MacBook Air yet again. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
