Q: How to locally sync an iPhone with OS X Mavericks? iCloud is NOT an option.

Well here's one that finally does it for Mac:

http://blog.digidna.net/post/82781795700/how-to-quickly-and-securely-add-contact s-to-your-iphone

So next time you have internet, forget the backup, turn it off, just do the sync. Will take hardly any time at all.

And...

Like the man says, watch this space for that which cannot be speculated upon.

Capt Billy wrote:

 

Hi, just signing onto this thread.

 

We live on a sailboat. We rarely have internet and generally have it only in some internet cafe ashore. We rarely take our MacBook ashore for many reasons. So we do a ot with our phones. I have a new MacBook Air (yes, I got my old macbook wet!!) It has Mavericks on it. So far everything is great... except I need Icloud to sync contacts etc with the iphone.

 

Tonight I have internet on the boat and thought I would try an icloud back up and sync... 6 hours is what was forcasted for time to do the iphone part. We generate all of our own power on board using solar  and wind. I can't leave the phone running for 6 hours... then another 6 for the laptop...

 

So, has anyone worked out a direct, wired or bluetooth or LAN backup/sync for this kind of user.

 

For those of you in the US, you don't know how lucky you are. in the rest of the world, the internet *****. Very low bandwidth and very sketchy connections.

The US does not rank very high amongst 'connected' countries, it is far from the best (Korea)

Csound1 wrote:

The US does not rank very high amongst 'connected' countries, it is far from the best (Korea)

:-) LOL it's strange if true, as one of the biggest advocates of cloud storage is a US company(Apple), is it not?

No, the US will catch up if there is demand for better service, some countries are ahead and some are behind, but they are all improving.

The US ranks 11th (up from 15th a few years ago)

Here's a link to the top 20

Csound1 wrote:

 

No, the US will catch up if there is demand for better service, some countries are ahead and some are behind, but they are all improving.

 

The US ranks 11th (up from 15th a few years ago)

 

Here's a link to the top 20

LOL that's what is SO! funny. The trends for cloud storages is being lead by companys like Apple who are based in a contry that is only 11th able to support it.   Yes I know some will say that customers tell companys what they want but my view is often company will produse something that they then try and get people to use.

We'll just disagree then.

Csound1 wrote:

 

No, the US will catch up if there is demand for better service, some countries are ahead and some are behind, but they are all improving.

 

The US ranks 11th (up from 15th a few years ago)

 

Here's a link to the top 20

"36.6 megabits per second" thats still a lot faster then my 2 megabits or 20 depending on where in Greece or the UK I am working

Csound1 wrote:

 

We'll just disagree then.

Disagree on what?  (that Apple are one of the biggest advocates of Cloud technology or that they are based in the US or that the US is only 11th with internet coverage............?) you don't say what you are disagreeing with?

I'm in the UK (London) I have a 40Mb/s connection (Sky) which is fairly common in London, at my house in Chicago I have a 50Mb/s connection (for a slightly higher price). I also have family in Italy (Florence) and France (Provence) regularly, all have 25Mb/s or better connections.

The improvement over the last 5 years has been considerable, I see no reason for it to stop.

TopSteve wrote:

 

Csound1 wrote:

 

We'll just disagree then.

Disagree on what?  (that Apple are one of the biggest advocates of Cloud technology or that they are based in the US or that the US is only 11th with internet coverage............?) you don't say what you are disagreeing with?

I don't disagree with the figures, I disagree with your conclusions. Much of the world now has access to fast connections (10Mb/s or more) fast enough for for online systems to be viable for most purposes. and that situation has improved every year since the internet became available.

iCloud is hardly a pioneer, online storage and sync goes back to before MS Exchange launched, and that was nearly 20 years ago. And it is far from alone.

It was you who gave the link showing the US to be 11th and that link gave the average figure of 30 something and now your giving your personal figures.  Please stop being inconsistent. 

Yes we are in Agreement that things like speed will continue to improve.

TopSteve wrote:

 

It was you who gave the link showing the US to be 11th and that link gave the average figure of 30 something and now your giving your personal figures.  Please stop being inconsistent. 

You do understand that an average is not the same thing as every persons individual speed I hope?

Speeds as high as 1Gb/s are available in the US, but that is not the average.

Just as you may get 2Mb/s in Greece, but it is still not the average.

YES I DO UNDERSTAND THAT AVERAGE IS NOT THE SAME AS INDIVIDUAL.  It was you who first posted about the US as being 11th.  I was just looking at things from that point of view and it was that post that gave me a good LOL.  

Happy to amuse you.