Keeping your Apple e-mail account going
December 12, 2012
A note from Bob Taylor with more info to help with the MobileMe transmigration.
Apple has been vigorously encouraging everyone who has been maintaining a MobileMe account to upgrade to their new iCloud service, since all benefits that come with the old service will disappear on June 30. A lot of attention has been focused on rescuing data stored on one’s iDisk and migrating any hosted web sites to a new server of some sort.
What hasn’t received a lot of attention is the email address and mailing capability that came with the old arrangement — there are implications for everyone who has established and is using an xxxx@mac.com or yyyy@me.com mailing address. If you use such an address regularly without having yet moved to iCloud, you will have been getting urgent notice from Apple that special action is required in order to keep your address in effect after June 30, and you may have already taken appropriate action.
But if you keep such an address without using it regularly you may have missed these notices. If you wish to hang on to this address, but will not be moving to iCloud before June 30, just access your MobileMe account and you will be guided through the quick process. Basically, all that is required is that you formally agree to the new Terms of Service agreement that comes with iCloud. You can do this in under one minute if you don’t bother reading carefully through the agreement. This piece of language is a very interesting document, however, a masterpiece of legalese, and it may be worth studying a bit. There’s everything but the kitchen sink in there, it seems, the fruit of thirty years of experience on Apple’s part setting up licensing agreements.
Hmm, why not just move to iCloud directly? The big sticking point is that to do so you need to be running OS7 (Lion) or else a current version of some IOS system on a mobile device. Moving your whole setup up from OS6 (Snow Leopard) in a hurry would be a big deal, and perhaps not even possible depending on your hardware configuration. Apple presumably recognizes the importance of this legacy market, which is why they are offering this compromise. Grab it while you can!
Frequently asked questions about the MobileMe transition and iCloud
Use iTunes 11 The Right Way With These Tips And Tricks [Feature] | Cult of Mac
December 12, 2012
iTunes 11 just came out, and if you’ve upgraded, you know that it has changed many of the familiar features and moved many of them to different places. Let’s take a look at the different ways to use iTunes 11 the right way, with the following tips and tricks.
via Use iTunes 11 The Right Way With These Tips And Tricks [Feature] | Cult of Mac.
Is iTunes Plus gone? iTunes 11 offers DRM-free audio re-downloads | TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog
December 12, 2012
No need to pay any more for iTunes Plus to upgrade your 128k MP3’s to the better quality 256k AAC. Using iTunes download from the Cloud now!
How Not to Become Mat Honan: A Short Primer on Online Security | Threat Level | Wired.com
December 12, 2012
Here Mat tells what you can do to prevent what happened to him (see previous blog entry).
How Not to Become Mat Honan: A Short Primer on Online Security | Threat Level | Wired.com.
How Apple and Amazon Security Flaws Led to My Epic Hacking | Gadget Lab | Wired.com
December 12, 2012
How secure is your digital life? Mat Honan, in an article in the WIRED magazine Gadget Lab blog tells about how easy it was for hackers to wipe out is photo collection and information stored in various cloud based systems as well as his entire laptop archive.
How Apple and Amazon Security Flaws Led to My Epic Hacking | Gadget Lab | Wired.com.
Thinking of switching phone carriers when you buy the iPhone 5…
December 10, 2012
This article by Jared Newman appeared in Time’s Techland section Sept. 7th. The article provides some very good advice regarding network coverage, especially if your considering buying a new iPhone 5 or thinking of changing provider of service.
click link: http://techland.time.com/2012/09/07/4g-lte-reality-check-where-a-4g-iphone-would-matter/
T-Shirts!
December 9, 2012
The CIDER Board has approve a T-Shirt for the picnic in July.
This is the design we’re working on.
At the June meeting, we’ll have a sign-up sheet with sizes to order, at $10 each.
If you can’t make the meeting, send an e-mail to acider@mac.com.
How to turn a cassette tape into MP3s | How To – CNET
December 8, 2012
One of the best and easiest to understand articles I’ve seen on how to convert cassette tapes to MP3s using free software available on the internet.
How to turn a cassette tape into MP3s | How To – CNET.
MobileMe Transition
December 8, 2012
As many of you know MobileMe is scheduled to be shut down June 30th. In this morning’s article in the New York Times David Pogue suggested some ways to replace features that will no longer be available from Apple (iDisk, iWeb Publishing, and Gallery). Good advice, check it out.
January 11th General Meeting
December 7, 2012
Wednesday, January 11th @ 7:00 pm at East High School
7:00 pm CIDER Club Introduction – Dennis Wurster (5 min)
7:05 pm Apple News – Steve Rea, Dennis Wurster, Kevin Kondo (10 min)
7:15 pm Know Your Software: How to share one Mac with your family & How to manage multiple Macs at home by Steve Rea (15 min)
7:30 pm Know Your Hardware: Three different phone numbers: Frontier land-line, AT&T iPhone and Google Voice. I want to keep my iPhone number. I don’t want to merge the numbers. The process is to port my landline number to my Google Voice account via a cheap mobile phone. George Fekete explains (15 min)
7:45 pm Know Your Internet: Avoid public Wi-Fi pitfalls by Dennis Wurster (15 min)
8:00 pm Brief business meeting — call to order and vote on approval of proposed changes to CIDER bylaws; Bob Taylor presiding (10 min)
8:10 pm BREAK – (15 min)
8:25 pm Dash with CASH! – Five minute auction with cash only
8:30 pm Keynote: Killer news & information iPad apps. This is a demo of what you can do with an iPad including news aggregators like Flip and Pulse; TED (just released); Biblion – chronicling the 1939 World’s Fair; Beatles Yellow Submarine; Popular Science; latest weather apps (Weather Underground) presented by Kevin Kondo (45 min)
9:15 pm Question & Answer Session – Steve Rea, Dennis Wurster, Kevin Kondo (15 min)
9:30 pm Wrap Up announcement, promote next month – Dennis Wurster
9:35 pm Meeting Ends
NOTE: Please bring small computer items that you are willing to donate to Apple CIDER for the Dash With CASH auction
Note: All times are approximate.
