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Everything you need to know about using Apple's Mac personal computer and it's operating system, OS X Mountain Lion, with your iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad

Apple currently makes both portable and desktop versions of the Mac. For portables, there's the ultra-light MacBook Air line, and the ultra-powerful MacBook Pro line. For desktops, there's entry-level Mac mini, workstation-level Mac Pro, and the all-in-one iMac. Running on all of them is OS X, and its current version, Mountain Lion (10.8).

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.Mac: By Any Other Name Would Sync More Sweetly?

By Rene Ritchie, Friday, May 30, 2008 a 7:55 am

Ah, .Mac, the poor abandoned stepchild in Apple's 360 degrees of spherical integration. It's the online service Google, Yahoo, and even Microsoft Live kick sand at on the playground.

Sure, Back-to-my-Mac can rock, and syncing can be oh-so-sweet, but c'mon, what have you done for us lately?

New Mac Update Lets iPhone Users Sync Contacts to Google

By Dieter Bohn, Wednesday, May 28, 2008 a 4:18 pm

.Mac To Be Revamped Alongside iPhone 2.0?!

By Rene Ritchie, Thursday, May 8, 2008 a 10:41 pm

Updating yesterday's story about .Mac getting the push-email treatment in iPhone 2.0, TUAW's tipsters are back with this little gem:

According to our anonymous tipster, .Mac will undergo a complete revamp that will coincide with the iPhone 2.0 launch (which everyone expects to occur at WWDC 08).

Again with the asking and receiving, eh?

Rumored highlights for the updated .Mac include full wireless (cell + wifi?) calendar, contacts, and email (an Apple Exchange anyone?) and .Mac support for -- you guessed it! -- Windows.

iPhone 2.0: .Mac "Push" Email?

By Rene Ritchie, Wednesday, May 7, 2008 a 10:39 pm

Ask and ye shall receive, dig deep into the code and ye shall find fresh-baked Apple-y goodness.

No sooner did Apple drop iPhone 2.0 SDK Beta 5, than the developers began scouring it for any hint of what's to come, and as usually TUAW serves up what they found:

Rumor: .Mac Coming to iPhone 2.0?

By Rene Ritchie, Saturday, Mar 29, 2008 a 11:55 am

No sooner did our own Chad Garette lay out the case for .Mac syncing via the iPhone, then iPhone Alley, (via TUAW), brings word that El Jobso might be doing just that:

In the just released SDK beta 2, iPhone Alley found a string within a preference bundle that reads: "Syncing with this Dot Mac account will turn off syncing for other Dot Mac accounts and delete any existing synced data." This suggests the possibility of wireless syncing for non-Exchange users.

This would be awesome additional functionality for both the iPhone and for .Mac. 2.0 really can't come fast enough.

Dot Mac Services to iPhone? Wait-a-Thon!

By Chad Garrett, Monday, Mar 24, 2008 a 10:29 am

Do you use Apple’s .Mac Services? I do. I like the synchronization between my Macs; it really makes life easy. With the iPhone, I really get a lot of benefit. I can add a website, Calendar appointments, Address Book entry, etc on my iPhone and it gets synced across multiple machines.

Macworld 2008: Evidence for Mac Touch Builds

By Dieter Bohn, Saturday, Jan 12, 2008 a 7:52 pm

A little non-iPhone news:

Macworld 2008: What's in the Air? Not WiMAX.

By Dieter Bohn, Saturday, Jan 12, 2008 a 7:05 pm

Mac Pro and XServe Announcements: Excellent News for iPhone's Macworld Prospects

By Dieter Bohn, Tuesday, Jan 8, 2008 a 3:23 pm

Micromat Syphone Lets You Read Text Messages On Your Mac, W0rX Gr8 LOL :-)

By admin#IM, Friday, Oct 12, 2007 a 10:17 am

Micromat is a name well known in the Mac software community, best known for its popular TechTool Pro; a utility for fixing troubled Macs and impatient IT managers. The company has now put its coding skills to work on iPhone. Their new application, Syphone, lets you archive and view all threaded text conversations, sent from your iPhone, right on your Mac. Never fear losing that important message from your boss, or sultry conversation with your mistress. It's all saved right there on your Mac.