Showing posts with label MobileMe. Show all posts
Showing posts with label MobileMe. Show all posts
Sunday, March 06, 2022

What happens when you have an Apple ID without an email address and you change it? (And much more about Apple ID hell.)

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I'll provide some back story below, but it's tedious and a bit ranty so I'll put the most useful stuff up front. For *reasons* (...
Sunday, November 26, 2017

Apple's Apple ID fiasco is getting worse -- declining support for Apple Store ID that is not iCloud ID

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Like many veteran geeks I have a different iCloud ID and Apple store ID. This used to be a supported configuration. In my case it was essent...
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Tuesday, April 18, 2017

Why is Apple's mysterious two factor authentication better than a strong password?

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What would I do if my home burned down and Emily and the kids get out alive but I’m dead? That’s what I think about when I read about Apple...
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Tuesday, July 26, 2016

The sensible way to subscribe to a calendar feed in Apple's screwed up calendar ecosystem.

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I think I know how Apple screwed this up. It’s one of those evolutionary path-dependency things. Their iCloud calendar is the child of their...
Tuesday, February 10, 2015

You can delete Facebook ID and Google ID, but Apple IDs are eternal (also iCloud).

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My mother died on Dec 14, 2014 . She was fortunate to live in Quebec, which manages the dying process far better than anywhere in the US. It...
Wednesday, February 04, 2015

Restoring iOS deleted Contacts: the iTunes method and OS X Contacts.app method

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Clark Goble has a solid iOS 9 wish list  addressing longstanding half-implemented oddities like Contact Groups. It omits one longstanding pr...
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Monday, March 24, 2014

Mavericks iBooks Apple ID and Sync issues - one possible fix

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iBooks for Mac 1.0 has not been well received; Apple Discussions include a good range of rants and removal hacks. (You can, and should,  re...
Saturday, February 16, 2013

Google Contact Sync on Mountain Lion and iOS - CardDAV (Project Contacts 2013)

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I'm rather late to this party [6], but around the time Google ended ActiveSync support for unpaid accounts [1] they added vCard  3 (199...
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Saturday, November 17, 2012

iCloud transition - Contacts take 2

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Four months ago, when MobileMe was turned off,  an attempt to move my OS X Lion Contacts to iCloud transition was a first class debacle . I ...
Tuesday, June 26, 2012

iCloud transition went as expected - disastrously

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I was sure Apple would screw up my iCloud transition. So I did everyone else on our family account first. I backed up my Contacts. I did a f...
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Saturday, June 16, 2012

Notes on converting a MacBook Core 2 Duo dual USB to Lion

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Our vintage 2006 MacBook Core 2 Duo can, in theory, run Lion [1]. I just upgraded it from Snow Leopard, which it ran reasonably well albeit...
Tuesday, May 22, 2012

Apple ID Hell: Apple's identity mismanagement and an insanely obscure ID bug with MobileMe send as email

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Apple has long had trouble with truly basic concepts of authentication, but lately they've gone off the rails. It's not just the new...
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Thursday, May 03, 2012

MobileMe to iCloud - Is Apple getting nervous?

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Apple's MobileMe service officially ends on June 30th, almost 8 weeks from now. When it ends we either need to go to iCloud or give up o...
Wednesday, April 18, 2012

Apple fixed Message.app (iMessage) in iOS 5.1 -- and nobody noticed

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I give Apple a lot of hurt, but here they fixed something big and nobody else seems to have noticed. Even better, by fixing it they put more...
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Friday, December 02, 2011

Lion: Only 3.5 stars on Apple's App Store

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I have no compelling reason to move our family accounts from MobileMe to iCloud , though Find My Friends might be nice. Still, I'd proba...
Tuesday, November 29, 2011

Migrating MobileMe family accounts to iCloud

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I've started migrating family accounts to iCloud. This explanation from Apple Discussions is helpful ... With a Family Pack, the master...
Wednesday, October 12, 2011

The iCloud identity problem: manageable?

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My MobileMe account user name is different from my very old (.mac) Apple account user name associated with all my iTunes purchases. These w...
Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Migrating Contacts from Outlook/Exchange server to OS X Address Book via MobileMe

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For the past year I've had one set of Contacts in Outlook/Exchange server and another set in OS X Address Book/MobileMe. My iPhone pulle...
Sunday, July 03, 2011

Lessons from sharing our team videos

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In a burst of foolish optimism, I volunteered to do some videos of our team pitchers and share them. This turned out to be much harder than...
Saturday, April 23, 2011

Being the bug: Things I learned upgrading my mother's Mac Mini

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...Sometimes you're the windshield Sometimes you're the bug... Mary Chapin Carpenter I followed the iFixt directions to  Install a ...
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