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[QUOTE]Originally posted by smitty195: [QB] GBN: The translation for my "stuff" is basically this.....I own several gizmos. One of the problems of owning several gizmos is that you have to "sync" them on a regular basis. In the past, this means that you normally have a "master" item (usually a desktop computer). That desktop computer has all of your important things on it, such as your calendar, your email, your address book, your internet page bookmarks, and so forth. As an example, let me use the address book. Let's say I get an email from a friend who tells me that he/she changed their phone number. In the past, what I would do is go to the "master" computer (my desktop computer), and I would open up my address book program. I would find them in the address book, and then "edit" it so that I can remove their old phone number and put in their new phone number. Okay, so mission accomplished......but it's only mission accomplished on ONE computer. I still have other "gizmos" that I use which also need to be updated with the new phone number. In the past, the way this was accomplished was by taking each "gizmo" one at a time, and plugging it into a cable that is plugged into my "master" (desktop) computer. When my gizmo is plugged into the desktop computer with a cable, the gizmo and the computer then talk to each other. Specifically, they "sync" themselves with each other. My gizmo will "see" a new phone number on the master computer, and it will update itself so that my gizmo deletes my friend's old phone number, and insert their new phone number. Once that "sync" is complete (it takes about 5 minutes or less), then I unplug it and set it aside. Next, I would go and grab my next gizmo, and go through the same routine (plug it into the desktop computer, and let the two things "talk" to each other so that the gizmo gets the updated phone number of my friend). The more gizmos I have, the longer it takes---because I have to take each gizmo, one at a time, and plug it into the master computer. That is called "syncing". If I did not "sync", then my desktop computer would have my friend's correct new phone number, but my gizmos would have the old, incorrect phone number. So that is why "syncing" is so necessary-----they all have to have the same information, otherwise it gets crazy and you don't know which device has the correct information on it. Now......along comes a neat new service from Apple that they are calling, "MobileMe". It used to be called "Dot Mac", but that was a few years ago and it is now called MobileMe. When they changed the name, they also changed the features. And here is why MobileMe is so neat. There no longer is a "master" computer that I have to sync my gizmos with. Why??? Because----Apple uses a thing that they call a "Cloud". It's not really a cloud, obviously....they just call it that because it sort of explains what it does. No matter what gizmo I am using (ANY of my gizmos....desktop computer, cell phone, iPod, etc), whenever I make a change, it will "beam" up this new information to the "cloud" in the sky. This "cloud" contains all of my information that I used to do a "sync" with as described above using a cable. But now, there is no cable...and there is no syncing action that I have to do on my end. It is all fully automatic and invisible. It just "happens" as long as you pay the 99 bucks a year. So right now, all of the information in my address book, all of my email addresses that I have stored in my email program, all of my emails, all of my bookmarks for internet pages, and many other things----they are ALL sitting up there in the virtual "cloud". When I make a change on ANY gizmo, the "cloud" automatically grabs it without me doing anything. The information is beamed up to the cloud, and then the cloud turns around and beams back down the new information to all of my gizmos. I don't have to do anything---it does it by itself. So if I were to go over to my laptop computer right now and open up my address book, I could add "GBN" as a new entry and just make up a phone number and address to put in there (this is just to give an example of how it works). As soon as I finish entering your information into my laptop's address book, I walk away---I'm done. It probably took me, what, maybe 1 or 2 minutes to type in your name, address, and phone number? Now even though I ONLY entered your information into my address book on my laptop computer, as soon as I walked away, things began happening by themselves without me touching anything. The new information gets "beamed up" to the cloud, and then the cloud automatically beams it right back down to all of my gizmos. So even though I entered your information on my laptop computer, I can walk over to my cell phone and look in the address book, and voila---there you are. And it all happened without me telling it to do so. Does that make sense? It's a clever invention, and very simple to use. The MobileMe service actually does much more than this, but that is just one small example. I'll mention one other neat thing that MobileMe has---something called an "iDisk". You know what a hard drive is, right? Okay, now imagine a hard drive sitting up there in the "cloud". You can't touch it or see it, but it's there. I have access to this hard drive in the cloud (the "iDisk") by logging onto a specific web page and entering my password. What this allows me to do is share a large file with someone. I'm with Comcast for my home internet, and their email system only allows me a maximum of 10MB to be attached to an email that I send. Anything greater than 10MB, and Comcast will reject it and not allow the email to be sent. Yesterday, I had a 44MB sound file that I had to send to a friend. Comcast would not allow it---it's WAY over their 10MB limit. So instead, I used the iDisk. I simply logged on to a specific web page, entered in my user name and password, and clicked a button that says "Upload". I then uploaded this large sound file to the virtual hard drive in the sky! Once the upload was complete and my sound file was up there in the "cloud", it then asked me if I would like to share this file with anyone. I said "Yes", and I just put in that person's email address and clicked "Send". The person that I sent it to got an email that said, "Andy would like to share a file with you. Click on the link below". (and there was a link that she could click on). So it's like having your own hard drive up in the sky that you can do with whatever you'd like to do. If you take a long video that goes over 10MB, but you still want people to see it, you upload it to the "iDisk" so that friends can access it and look at it. It's just like making a copy of a tape and mailing it to them in a big envelope, except you bypass the envelope---and go straight to the computer. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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