Chapter 5. Using .Mac Sync

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Not only does your .Mac account provide a great ad-free e-mail address, online storage, and the ability to whip up Web pages in a flash, but it also serves as a repository for your personal information your Safari bookmarks, contacts, calendars, Mail accounts, Mail rules, and keychains (which hold your passwords for various accounts).

There are two great things about this: The first is that when you synchronize these items to your .Mac account, that infor-mation can be synchronized with other Macs, so that copying the items to other Macintosh computers is as easy as entering your account information and clicking a button. The second great thing about this is that you can access some of this key information (such as your contacts and Safari bookmarks) from just about any computer with a Web browser and an Internet connection. And, with a little cleverness, you can easily copy your information to a cell phone, iPod, or Palm PDA.

Five software tools allow you to do this. You'll need your .Mac account, iSync, Address Book, Safari, and iCal. All of these come with the latest version of Mac OS X, or they can be downloaded from Apple for older versions of Mac OS X. The sixth important tool .Mac Sync is built right into Mac OS X 10.4.

In this chapter, I'll show you how to set up Mac OS X 10.4's .Mac Sync, how to use .Mac Sync to synchronize information between two (or more) Macs using your .Mac account, and how to use iSync to integrate other devices in your synchronization routine.

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    .Mac. Visual QuickStart Guide
    .Mac
    ISBN: 032130473X
    EAN: 2147483647
    Year: 2005
    Pages: 97

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