The document covers how iCloud operates, highlighting its features like syncing mail, contacts, and calendars compared to the previous MobileMe service. It provides guidance on compatibility with different devices and how to migrate from MobileMe to iCloud while addressing potential issues such as duplicate data. Additionally, it mentions alternatives for certain features that are no longer supported after migrating from MobileMe.

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

2. What Is iCloud?

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

4. Push Updates (MobileMe) Modify data on any device Data pushed up to cloud Data pushed to other devices Mail, Contacts, Calendars, Bookmarks only

5. Push Updates (iCloud) Mail, Contacts, Calendars, Bookmarks, plus… Photos Documents Music, TV shows, Apps, Books

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

7. Can You Use iCloud? All your devices OK: go for it If some devices not OK: Don ’ t use iCloud Replace outdated devices Go without some services on older devices

8. A Quick Spin through iCloud…

9. Stuff That ’ s Pretty Much the Same as in MobileMe Mail Contacts Calendar Bookmarks & Reading List Find My Noun* Back to My Mac*

10. iCloud Downloads

11. iTunes Match

12. iCloud Backup (iOS only)

13. Photo Stream

14. Documents in the Cloud

15. iCloud Configuration

16. iCloud Configuration

17. iCloud Configuration

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

19. All About Your Apple ID Apple IDs can ’ t be merged Sharing is problematic You can use one Apple ID for purchases, another for everything else

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

21. Migrating from MobileMe Gone as of June 30, 2012: Gallery iDisk Backup

22. Migrating from MobileMe Gallery replacements Dropbox Flickr Facebook Picasa Web Albums ZangZing

23. Migrating from MobileMe iDisk replacements (storage & sharing) Dropbox SpiderOak SugarSync

24. Migrating from MobileMe iDisk replacements (Web hosting) 1 and 1 .com DreamHost FatCow thousands of others…

25. Migrating from MobileMe Dealing with duplicates Back up and export first Check “ On My Mac ” Still no joy? Delete & import

26. Bookmark Sync Problems? Export old bookmarks Erase bookmarks everywhere Create a new bookmark on one device, let it sync Erase new bookmark Import old bookmarks

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

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

29. Q & A

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