We have:
We've been using MobileMe to sync our Contacts and Calendars on all our equipment even our old G5!
We're about to upgrade to iCloud and have been holding off hoping that a workaround might evolve for older Macs running older an OS like Leopard.
Is there any way yet (or ever) that we'll be able to keep our iMac G5 in the sync loop after converting to iCloud?
Thx,
Steven
Soho Organizer will sync contacts and calendars on your Mac to iCloud. Your iPhone and/or iPad will have to be running iOS5 to sync to iCloud.
My PPC is gone. So that's solved. Now all I have is my Mac Pro on OSX 106.8, iPhone & iPad on iOS 5.1 using MM VERY happily.
I have no interest in iCloud or Lion in the least. Because... to use Lion just to use iCloud just to Sync, I will have to upgrade some computer applications; Adobe Creative Suite to 5.5, Filemaker to 11, MS Office to name a few. It will cost approx $2,000 - AGAIN just so I can sync like I do now with MM and Snow Leopard. It's criminal. I really don't need Lion otherwise.
So with the clock ticking before MM is executed, I am desperately looking for a way to stay on SL and find a way to replay MM without iCloud witch we know requires Lion.
I've contacted: Appigo who makes Todo task manager who has their own cloud your devices and computer sync through. Their own iCloud or MM so to speak. I've contacted Mark/Space who make Missing Sync that was a terriffic 3rd party sync software for Palm Treos, Androids and even Blackberries I think. I had them for my Treo until I got an iPhone and MM.
I know there's Google calendar and contacts and DropBox and this seems to be the workaround approach for those in the know not wanting to upgrade to Lion just yet, or spend the application upgrade money needed to run on Lion.
In my 27 years as a outspoken Apple evangelist, this is the first OS upgrade that has knocked me off my soapbox and the consternation is very very high. I don't have an extra $2,000 to spend JUST so I can continuing syncing.
Are there others in this thread that have the same kinds of concerns I wonder?
Either way are there any other workarounds besides using Google to sync you Mac (Mac Pro) with your iPad1 and iPhone4?
Thx
Steven Shmerler wrote:
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Either way are there any other workarounds besides using Google to sync you Mac (Mac Pro) with your iPad1 and iPhone4?
Thx
Yes, use Soho Organizer and Mac Mail, the combination will give access to iCloud Mail, Contacts and Calendars on Leopard or Snow Leopard, iDevices will need to be running IOS5
WOW. So Soho Org is a replacement for iCal & Addressbook on your computer, and even though on Snow Leopard, it will allow you to connect to iCloud in a way that iCal and Addressbook won't?
I never conntected my mail via MM to my devices. I have then connect directly to my mail servers.
But if what you just said is true, and I'm sure it is, this could be the best solution yet! I will go to SOHO and learn more . Thank you VERY much Csound1
You're welcome, FYI Soho has a free 30 day trial, worth checking that out.
I am actually having troubles to sync my contacts "on my mac" with these I do have in the cloud.
Using Soho Organizer it syncs fine both contact databases to itself but it's not syncing them with each other, no kind of merging.
Anyone knows how to configure Soho correctly?
Hi
As a work around for using iCal on a PPC Mac I've used method described here https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3671434?answerId=18838897022#18838897022
It seems to be working ok. Some might consider it a bit of an *** to publish and subscribe to calanders this way but it keeps the PPC Mac iCal in the loop.
Hope this helps with some issues
Rob
Leopard_Steve wrote:
I am actually having troubles to sync my contacts "on my mac" with these I do have in the cloud.
Using Soho Organizer it syncs fine both contact databases to itself but it's not syncing them with each other, no kind of merging.
Anyone knows how to configure Soho correctly?
You can't sync the local file (On My Mac) with the online file (iCloud) use one or the other.
iCloud on an iMac PowerPC G5?
