iCloud

Yojimbo and iCloud Yojimbo is a popular information organizer app, and one of the key features for the software has been seamless integration between multiple Macs using Apple’s MobileMe service. MobileMe is being shuttered by Apple on Saturday, June 30th, and that means that Bare Bones has to move the app’s syncing abilities to iCloud…

MobileMe: It’s time to move The transition from MobileMe to iCloud officially started on October 12, 2011, and both services will run concurrently through June 30. After that deadline, however, any content stored in MobileMe accounts will be lost forever. After migrating to iCloud, you’ll still have several of the same services you’re already used…

Then click on the small gear icon to choose Select All.The next step is to click on the gear icon again and choose Export vCard. When you do that, your browser will save a .vcf file of all your contacts to your default download location. It’ll dub it “[Name of your first contact] and [number…

The first step was to upgrade to Parallels Desktop 7.0.15050.707095, which according to the company, “adds experimental support for OS X Mountain Lion Developer Preview as both a host and guest.” That means that you can both 1) run this version of Parallels in Mountain Lion (host) or 2) run Mountain Lion as a guest…

Email Message Sent to Some MobileMe Customers Apple introduced iCloud-enabled iTunes synching starting in the summer of 2011. iCloud as a whole officially launched on October 12th. The company let us know at the time that MobileMe would shut down in June of 2012, and the company has provided a migration path for customers to…

Go to ~/Library/Application Support/Address Book/Sources and open “Configuration.plist” using a text editor such as TextEdit or BBEdit. Near the top of this file is a line “<key>/xxxxxxxx/carddavhome/<key>.” The xxxxxxxx represents your iCloud Unique Identifier. Copy it or write it down for later.  Step 2: Set up the non-iCloud iOS Device for Contacts On the iOS…

There are two key pieces of information there. The first is that Snow Leopard 10.6.9 is in the works—the current version of Snow Leopard is 10.6.8. The second piece of information is the reality that .Mac subscribing Snow Leopard users will be able to maintain their Contacts, Calendars, and Bookmark syncing that they enjoy today.…

One cloud to rule them all… “The introduction of the widely anticipated iCloud service offering stole the show (relative to the previews of iOS 5 and Mac OS X Lion),” Mr. Marshall wrote. “While it is unlikely to move the ‘financial needle’ at AAPL anytime soon, we believe iCloud is significant as it increases the…

Time Capsule may handle iCloud dataAn anonymous source that’s apparently familiar with Apple’s Time Capsule and iCloud plans told Cult of Mac that an upgraded Time Capsule will make user’s Home folder backups available through the iCloud service, but data will be stored on the device’s own hard drive. Currently, Time Capsule offers 1TB or…

As we’ve grown up on the Internet, we’ve become accustomed to the ISP policy of unlimited data usage. It was a good marketing approach in the early days of the Internet and, in any case, ISPs had no way to measure your usage anyway. Flash forward to 2011, and it’s a whole new ball game.…

Before you make the transition, though, I strongly recommend that you back up your existing calendars, as the worst-case scenario here means that you won’t remember what time you’re supposed to meet Woz at Starbucks to discuss your billion-dollar tech startup idea. So here’s how you avoid that.Backup your calendars before upgradingTo back up your…

According to GigaOM, an anonymous source spilled the beans on the purchase, although a quick WHOIS search shows that icloud.com is still listed as a Xcerion property. The domain, however, does redirect to a new CloudMe Web page.Apple has been rumored for some time to be working on a cloud-based music storage service that will…

According to Mr. Sacconaghi, Apple has a laundry list of services planned for the data center, including more robust product downloads, free cloud-based storage, music and video streaming, and voice-based navigation services.Apple’s North Carolina data center should open this springAssuming Mr. Sacconaghi is right, Apple’s plans for its new data center are hefty. He expects…

Large file sharing is available from the iDisk option at the MobileMe Web site. A video tutorial showing how to use the feature is available at the Apple Web site.