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Take Control of iCloud Joe Kissell Senior Editor, TidBITS Senior Contributor, Macworld joekissell.com @joekissell

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What Is iCloud?

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Syncing: The Old Way <ul><li>Every device has a copy of all your stuff </li></ul><ul><li>From time to time, connect them with cables </li></ul><ul><li>Sync and hope for the best </li></ul>

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Push Updates (MobileMe) <ul><li>Modify data on any device </li></ul><ul><li>Data pushed up to cloud </li></ul><ul><li>Data pushed to other devices </li></ul><ul><li>Mail, Contacts, Calendars, Bookmarks only </li></ul>

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Push Updates (iCloud) <ul><li>Mail, Contacts, Calendars, Bookmarks, plus… </li></ul><ul><li>Photos </li></ul><ul><li>Documents </li></ul><ul><li>Music, TV shows, Apps, Books </li></ul>

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Can You Use iCloud? <ul><li>Mac: 10.7.2+ </li></ul><ul><li>PC: Windows 7 or Vista </li></ul><ul><li>iOS: iOS 5+ </li></ul><ul><li>Apple TV: 2nd-gen, latest SW </li></ul><ul><li>Apple ID (more on this later) </li></ul>

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Can You Use iCloud? <ul><li>All your devices OK: go for it </li></ul><ul><li>If some devices not OK: </li></ul><ul><ul><li>Don ’ t use iCloud </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><li>Replace outdated devices </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><li>Go without some services on older devices </li></ul></ul>

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A Quick Spin through iCloud…

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Stuff That ’ s Pretty Much the Same as in MobileMe <ul><li>Mail </li></ul><ul><li>Contacts </li></ul><ul><li>Calendar </li></ul><ul><li>Bookmarks & Reading List </li></ul><ul><li>Find My Noun* </li></ul><ul><li>Back to My Mac* </li></ul>

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iCloud Downloads

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iTunes Match

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iCloud Backup (iOS only)

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Photo Stream

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Documents in the Cloud

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iCloud Configuration

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iCloud Configuration

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iCloud Configuration

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All About Your Apple ID <ul><li>Apple ’ s “ universal ” credentials </li></ul><ul><li>MobileMe/.Mac logins work* </li></ul><ul><li>iCloud needs a me.com address </li></ul><ul><li>An Apple ID can have multiple addresses </li></ul>

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All About Your Apple ID <ul><li>Apple IDs can ’ t be merged </li></ul><ul><li>Sharing is problematic </li></ul><ul><li>You can use one Apple ID for purchases, another for everything else </li></ul>

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Migrating from MobileMe <ul><li>Gone right away: </li></ul><ul><ul><li>Mac-to-Mac data syncing </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><li>Mail: POP access (in & out), external addresses, 3 aliases </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><li>Contacts: publish/subscribe </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><li>Back to My (older) Mac </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><li>Find My (pre-iOS 5) Device </li></ul></ul>

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Migrating from MobileMe <ul><li>Gone as of June 30, 2012: </li></ul><ul><ul><li>Gallery </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><li>iDisk </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><li>Backup </li></ul></ul>

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Migrating from MobileMe <ul><li>Gallery replacements </li></ul><ul><ul><li>Dropbox </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><li>Flickr </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><li>Facebook </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><li>Picasa Web Albums </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><li>ZangZing </li></ul></ul>

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Migrating from MobileMe <ul><li>iDisk replacements (storage & sharing) </li></ul><ul><ul><li>Dropbox </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><li>SpiderOak </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><li>SugarSync </li></ul></ul>

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Migrating from MobileMe <ul><li>iDisk replacements (Web hosting) </li></ul><ul><ul><li>1 and 1 .com </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><li>DreamHost </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><li>FatCow </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><li>thousands of others… </li></ul></ul>

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Migrating from MobileMe <ul><li>Dealing with duplicates </li></ul><ul><ul><li>Back up and export first </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><li>Check “ On My Mac ” </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><li>Still no joy? Delete & import </li></ul></ul>

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Bookmark Sync Problems? <ul><li>Export old bookmarks </li></ul><ul><li>Erase bookmarks everywhere </li></ul><ul><li>Create a new bookmark on one device, let it sync </li></ul><ul><li>Erase new bookmark </li></ul><ul><li>Import old bookmarks </li></ul>

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iCloud & Snow Leopard <ul><li>Mail: (almost) no problem </li></ul><ul><li>Calendar: try BusyCal or http://tidbits.com/article/12669 for iCal </li></ul><ul><li>Contacts: iffy at best </li></ul><ul><li>Everything else: sorry </li></ul>

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<ul><li>Take Control of iCloud (v. 1.1) </li></ul><ul><li>Much more than I covered today </li></ul><ul><li>153 pages </li></ul><ul><li>$15 </li></ul>Ebook: http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9781615423958.do Also available on Safari Books Online For Further Reading…

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Q & A

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Thank you for your kind attention! Joe Kissell joekissell.com • @joekissell