Apple Launches MobileMe Gallery Software for App Store

By Dena Cassella Published January 14, 2010

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Apple’s MobileMe Gallery app allows iPhone users to view entire photo galleries, flick through and zoom-in on photos, view friends’ gallery photos and share links to albums. The software also automatically stores photos that have been viewed, so they can be accessed again even without a network connection. Apple says the free MobileMe Gallery app lets you view all the photos and movies published in your gallery with “a tap” of the screen.

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You can create a new album or make changes to your gallery at me.com. Apple says you can upload photos directly from iPhoto ’09 or Aperture 2 with just a few clicks and the pictures and videos you take with your iPhone 3GS can be posted directly to your gallery with a few taps. The free, 0.7MB application requires iPhone OS version 3.1 or later.

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