241: iCloud in 2015
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David and Katie discuss the state of iCloud in 2015, where you should trust it, where you should take a pass, how it integrates with other services and peek at the new Photos.app.

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Links and Show Notes:

Links for this episode:

• Apple - iCloud - Everything you love, everywhere you go.)

• MPU 042: Contacts and Calendars | Mac Power Users)In this episode, Katie and David tackle managing contacts and calendars on your Mac and iOS Devices.

• Mac Power Users 178: The Contacts Show | Mac Power Users)David and Katie discuss the best practices for managing, syncing and organizing contacts.

• Mac Power Users 179: Calendar Management | Mac Power Users)This week David and Katie tackle the calendar and best practices for managing, sharing and storing information to keep you on track.

• Flexibits | Fantastical for Mac | Meet your Mac's new calendar.)

• BusyCal)

• BusyContacts)

• Drafts - Agile Tortoise)

• Spanning Tools for Mac)

• Xmarks | Bookmark Sync and Search)

• MPU 069: Browser Wars | Mac Power Users)Katie and David dive deep on the various web browsers available for Mac and iOS, the pros and cons of each and various add-ons and extensions to make your browser of choice more useful.

• Safari 5.1.7 for Windows)

• How to free up iCloud storage space | Macworld)

• Smile Blog: Sync PDF Documents with PDFpen 7 and iCloud Drive)

• iCloud Drive enables non-Mac App Store apps to use iCloud document storage | 9to5Mac)

• Apple - iTunes - iTunes Match)

• MPU 066: iTunes Match | Mac Power Users)Katie and David dive deep into iTunes Match and iCloud Music Sharing with this soup to nuts discussion of how to set up and use this new service.

• Quitting Family Sharing — MacSparky)

• Accidental Tech Podcast: 103: An Atheist or a Howard Stern Fan)John Siracusa explains why David is wrong about Family Sharing

• Apple - OS X - Photos Preview)

• TidBITS: Initial Impressions of Photos for OS X Beta)Photos for OS X

• Everything you need to know about Apple’s new Photos app for Mac | The Verge)

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