With the knowledge of how to create nested Smart Playlists in iTunes, how about using this along with the new-ish iCloud Status field. The goal is to find music stored locally on my small SSD drive but has a match in iCloud via iTunes Match. This way I can delete the local versions of the music and rely on iTunes Match to stream the very same songs.
Now how to construct the appropriate Smart Playlist…
Can you now email from iCloud.com? Did you check to see if your me.com and mac.com email addresses got its third evolution of @icloud.com?
Log into Mail at www.icloud.com. Click on the gear icon in the upper right corner of Mail. Select Preferences then go to Accounts. In the middle of the Accounts screen, do you see something like this?
If you see an address with icloud.com, you’re all set. Send a test email to your account @icloud.com to verify it’s working.
Yes, Apple’s MobileMe is shutdown as of the end of June. Going to any MobileMe link, you’ll see this.
Interestingly though, it appears former users still have the opportunity to log in to retrieve files and photos on this defunct service.
For me, this shutdown means I have to go through old posts and fix all the busted images that pointed to my iDisk on MobileMe. Yikes!
Today’s the end of June which marks the official end of MobileMe. By now, you should have migrated to iCloud if possible, but there’s some stuff that can’t migrate over. And this non-migratable stuff will have an impact on Pulpconnection.
In the early days of pulp, I used Blogger as my blogging platform and .Mac’s iDisk to serve up image and movie files. But iDisk won’t make the transition to iCloud effectively busting majority of images on posts prior to January 2009.
I downloaded the megabytes of images but now have to figure out how to import them easily into the WordPress Media Library. The Grab & Save plugin could work if I had more time to go through each post. Add from Server seems like a better way to import a bulk of files. Regardless, tuning each post one by one is inevitable to re-associate the images unless there’s a plugin to redirect URL paths (at least as a temporary workaround).
I would like to create a static CDN setup – redirecting a subdomain to my media library and using W3 Total Cache to point there. Until then, that’s why older posts will have busted images.
I never really paid attention to iCloud’s Backup and Restore features before. I had enabled this feature since it sounded like the thing to do but never really understood the ramifications. I found out today.
After fighting with an unresponsive home button on my iPhone 4 for some time, I took it to Apple’s Genius Bar twice this week. First, my phone’s OS and firmware were reloaded. That helped a little bit, but there would be times I had to jam the home button 2-3 times before anything happened.
So today when I went back, Apple replaced my iPhone 4 with a new refurbished unit. Cool. The old phone had automatically backed up to iCloud this morning so after configuring this replacement phone, I said to restore from iCloud. Within 20 minutes over the Apple’s Store Wifi connection, all my settings, folders, and iCloud data was restored. The apps started reinstalling themselves too but this took longer, understandably.
So the iCloud backup isn’t just for contacts and calendars but for everything! Read more about iCloud’s Backup and Restore.
After upgrading to 10.7.2, I’ve noticed system slowdowns at random times. Not sure what triggers it, but my system bogs down and eventually becomes unusable. I came across this tip related to iCloud and hopefully, this fixes the slowdown.