It’s been several months now that Apple’s cloud-syncing MobileMe has been created yet the issues seemed to get worse and worse as the days rolled by. For those of you who use MobileMe (like me), you know that your contacts would sync from your iPhone to your Mac, but your Mac wouldn’t sync properly (specifically the contacts in your Address Book) to your iPhone or other computer or vice versa. Well now, thanks to Apple’s latest update of 10.5.6, MobileMe’s performance should be much better.

According to Computer World, “as part of the Mac OS X 10.5.6 upgrade released today, Apple included fixes to MobileMe, the company’s online synchronization, storage and Web application service. ‘Contacts, calendars, and bookmarks on a Mac automatically sync within a minute of the change being made on the computer, another device, or the web at me.com,’ Apple said in the update description it posted online Monday morning.”

I’ve yet to update to 10.5.6 since I’m at work but I’m looking forward to MobileMe being fixed. As many have said in the past, this could be Apple’s strength if it would get MobileMe once and for all fixed.

For those Mac users who’ve already updated, do you notice everything syncing properly with MobileMe? Leave a comment or msg me on twitter if you know!

For those of you who don’t know what MobileMe is, click here for a brief explanation.

Mac OS X has some really awesome features, as most of you know.  However, I just came upon a new way to make a screensaver that really impressed me.  I want to thank MacMost for this awesome tip.  I will show you how to create a photocast in Flickr and then push that photocast feed into your OS X screensaver.

What is a photocast?  It’s a RSS feed with any tag(s) you want which will then pull all Flickr photos worldwide with the tag(s) you ask for.

In the example I have below (the video), I created a Flickr photocast with the tag of ocean.  A website called Photocastr will automatically create your photocast feed.  It’s really easy.  Once I created my photocast feed (the most 50 recent Flickr photos with the tag “ocean”), I then insert the feed into iPhoto which causes iPhoto to subscribe to the photocast.

After about 3 to 5 minutes, iPhoto pulls all the Flickr photos and then I open System Preferences up and click on Desktop/Screensaver.  I then scroll down and voila!  My Flickr “Ocean” Photocast feed is in my screensaver and now I have a really cool photo screensaver (I chose the “mosaic” option) that displays the 50 most recent ocean-tagged Flickr photos.

Here’s a quick demo to show you how easy it is and how cool the screensaver can be!  Enjoy!

Choose Full Screen for an easier view… please note, it “grayed” out only on the first 3 seconds of the video, it will correct as soon as you start watching.

The latest Apple confirmations/announcements from today’s Steve Jobs’ Keynote are:

(1) iPhone 2.0 SDK - all iPhone users will be able to purchase tons of apps from iTunes via the App Store.  They displayed several games, business applications, medical applications, etc.  This will be a free update for all iPhone users in July.

(2) MobileMe - the revamped .Mac… it will include Push mail, contacts and calendar data and synced back to your iPhone over the air.  It will cost $99/year and can be upgraded for the rest of us .Mac users.

(3) Snow Leopard - As predicted, a new OS X will be released soon.  It will be previewed later today at WWDC.

(4) THE NEW iPHONE (3g) - click here for more info.

So any die-hard Appleholic knows that next week is a big week. Why? Apple has their annual WWDC meeting where Steve Jobs will announce Apple’s new products/plans/updates. I must admit, I feel like Christmas is on Monday (when Steve Jobs takes the stage). This is a big deal for all of us who love Apple. Thanks to some of the insider blogs (Engadget, Gizmodo, TUAW), here are the rumors of what’s to occur next week. Will they be right?

(1) iPhone 3G - according to many insiders, Apple will announce their 2.0 iPhone which is rumored to have GPS, 3G capability and several more features. Read more here.

(2) iPhone Applications (iPhone SDK) - for the rest of us who already have an iPhone and don’t plan on shelling out another rent payment to get a new one just yet, the iPhone SDK (Software Development Kit) is supposed to be announced. Some sites report that we will be able to purchase 3rd party applications from iTunes as early as Monday.

(3) Snow Leopard (10.6) - Several sites are reporting that Leopard 10.6 will be announced (otherwise known as Snow Leopard) which will improve speed and security for Mac’s successful Leopard operating system. Click here to read more about that.

Needless to say, next Monday will be an exciting day as will the rest of the week when the world will see what Apple is going to announce. I don’t know about you, but I’m waiting on pins and needles!

Which rumors do you think will come true? What else have you heard that Apple will announce? Leave your comments below!