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Apple's been trying hard to make up for the many service problems MobileMe subscribers have experienced since the service launched on iPhone 3G day. Part of Cupertino’s strategy for smoothing ruffled feathers included the addition of 30 days of free service to customers. Well, Apple's just tripled that number. This week it sent out an e-mail notifying users they're going to receive another 60-day extension, bringing the total number of free MobileMe service days to 90. Not bad.

Here's what Apple had to day about the free service extension:

The transition from .Mac to MobileMe was rockier than we had hoped. While we are making a lot of improvements, the MobileMe service is still not up to our standards. We are extending subscriptions 60-days free of charge to express appreciation for our members’ patience as we continue to improve the service.

You are eligible if you are a MobileMe member whose account was active as of today, August 19. See here for more information on eligiility.

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The service ($99/year) keeps email, contacts, appointments up-to-date between a Mac, and iPhone, iPod touch, and even a PC. That means if you make a change to an appointment or an address on your home computer, it will automatically appear on your iPhone and on any other computer you've set up.

There service does this by setting up what Apple calls a "MobileMe cloud." The cloud holds all your e-mail, contact, and appointment information. When you make a change to a contact on your iPhone, it automatically gets sent to the cloud and in a few minutes sent to your other computers. It also works with pictures and large files. What is on one device automatically gets sent to the others through the cloud.

MobileMe works with Microsoft Outlook and Mac Address Book so you don't even have to have a Mac—you can synch with the PC office computer too. All you need is an internet connection and be running Safari, Firefox, or Internet Explorer 7.0

But wait, there's more. With MobileMe you get a virtual desktop. That means on almost any computer attached to the internet, you can access your appointments, contacts, and your e-mail.