Mythbusters filming both days - no idea what other than we'll be at the Mare Island Naval Base, and there will be a lot of us. (No pictures allowed, sigh.)...
Yea. . boogie woogie in that rarified mountain air. Fog _____ From: differentskies@yahoogroups.com [mailto:differentskies@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of...
Today, Friday, May 11, the Soundscapes Concert Series returns to the Nazareth Center for the Arts with Broekhuis, Keller, and Schönwälder from Germany at 8...
Carol needs to install iOS 5.1 on her iPhone 3GS. When she does so she gets a warning that all of her apps and data will be written over. All of her...
You can backup the whole device using iCloud (once you setup an account), and then dump it back after the update - IF necessary.. I doubt you'll have any...
Assuming you're upgrading from 4.0 or earlier: From the Apple "updating to iOS5" document: As part of the update and restore process, iTunes will (in order): ...
I want to make sure of this before she does something. She got her 3GS 3 weeks after it was introduced, it has not been updated since then. It definitely...
You'll be fine I've done this with other peoples phones all the time. Just make sure you let iTunes do a backup before you do the install. Since she's on 3 you...
Hi John-John, Had a great first day of all different styles of electro-music. There is no stream available. Paul Harrimann played his Eigenharp which I never...
As some of you, I play bass in a band called Reconnaissance Fly (along with Polly Moller, Amar Chaudhary, Chris Broderick, and longtime Electronic Musician...
Carol updated her iPhone to 5.1. She thinks see backed everything up to iTunes and to iCloud. Now she has no contacts. She threw the thing at me and is...
... Ugh. A buddy of mine just lost all of his info too. Same guy who lost all of his blogs from several years when he converted from mobileme to the cloud....
Live by the Apple, Die by the Apple. But that's being discriminatory; live by the computer, die by the computer. (sent via computer) ... Fog _____ From:...
It's possible if she had used gmail at any point her contacts might be stored at google. Worth a check. Also they might be in outlook or the contacts app if on...
John, some possible things here: https://www.macworld.com/article/1153389/recover_lost_contacts.html ... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
I would've used iCloud only and avoided using iTunes for backup, since iTunes seems at best only able to handle hard files such as mp3's that are sitting on...
I don't know how bizarre this seems to the rest of you, but I find this issue a bit insane. How hard would it be for Apple to provide a simple tool for...
Except for the little Hackintosh experiment I ran a couple years ago, this is the main reason I would never want a Mac. Apple forces dependency on Apple. ...
I use a Galaxy Tablet of some sort for my job and like you I curse the thing every time the screen locks up. The camera blows under some conditions even though...
My Droid X + google cloud is the best thing since sliced bread. I guess it's "to each his own", as are many things, but after having a windows mobile phone...
"It boggles my mind why any person that is dependent on the data in their phone would ever choose an iPhone." I like my multiple Mac computers but really...
Cloud paradigm is just an extension of what we've been doing for years now. I use it to archive and clone music, photos, etc. to all my devices. It's just an...
... The big sales pitch for Apple has always been that it just works. With Mobile Me and now the iCloud, the problem has become that it *doesn't* just work....
Handcrank windows? I thought you were old enough to remember rubbing two sticks together to get a DOS prompt. Sent from my iPhone ... [Non-text portions of...
Yes, but on the Droid you can simply download "My Backup" and store anything on the phone to the SD card or to their cloud server. My Galaxy works fine in...
I'm old enough to realize that I don't have one freaking clue as to what y'all are talkin' about. ... . . . oh, and the car I'm driving has hand crank window....