![]() Setting Up and Using SOHO Organizer for Contacts - Despite the many other capabilities of the SOHO Organizer suite, setting it up for syncing contacts with iCloud is trivially easy. If you need help making that conversion, run, don’t walk, to get a copy of Joe Kissell’s “ Take Control of iCloud,” which explains in detail what’s involved. From what I can see, SOHO Organizer offers basically the same feature set as Bus圜al and iCal - if I were buying SOHO Organizer first, I would see if it met my needs before buying Bus圜al, but since I’m already a happy Bus圜al user, I haven’t seen the need to explore SOHO Organizer’s calendaring features much.Īnd as a final caveat, I’m assuming that you have already converted your MobileMe account to iCloud and are merely trying to gain access to your iCloud contacts on a Mac running Snow Leopard. ![]() I also won’t discuss SOHO Organizer’s calendar features, but suffice to say that it is actually a third solution to the iCloud calendar syncing problem, since it, like Bus圜al, can sync with iCloud (and Google Calendar). I won’t be talking about SOHO Notes or SOHO Print Essentials - they seem to be effective programs, but are out of scope for this article. SOHO Organizer is actually a three-application suite consisting of SOHO Organizer, which offers contact and calendar management SOHO Notes, a note-taking and snippet-keeping utility and SOHO Print Essentials, which helps you design and print labels, envelopes, letterhead, and so on, importing data as necessary from SOHO Organizer. In fact, SOHO Organizer requires only Mac OS X 10.5.8 or later, making it useful for anyone who wants to access iCloud contacts on a Mac that can run any version of Mac OS X from 10.5 Leopard to 10.7 Lion (and, we presume, but have not tested, 10.8 Mountain Lion). This capability is relatively new to SOHO Organizer, appearing in version 9.1.8, but Chronos has been refining it since introduction - the current version is 9.2.6. It’s not free, but it is easy - the $99 SOHO Organizer 9 from Chronos. Happily for those who have perfectly functional Macs still running Snow Leopard, for whatever reason, we’ve come across a way of syncing contacts with iCloud. ![]() But good solutions for syncing contacts with iCloud have been harder to find, since the tricks that worked with pointing iCal at iCloud failed With calendars, we’ve written about two solutions: Bus圜al (“ Bus圜al Brings iCloud Calendars to Snow Leopard,” 5 December 2011) and iCal (“ iCal in Snow Leopard Can Participate in iCloud,” 11 December 2011). Despite the fact that Apple based iCloud on standards like CalDAV and CardDAV, this hasn’t been entirely trivial. #1644: Explaining Mastodon and the Fediverse, HomePod Software 16.3 and tvOS 16.3, GoTo breachĪs the MobileMe sunset date of 30 June 2012 draws ever closer, people continue to look for ways to integrate Macs running Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard into the iCloud ecosystem.#1645: AirPlay iPhone to Mac for remote video, Siri learns to restart iPhones, Apple's Q1 2023 financials. ![]() 1646: Security-focused OS updates, Photos Workbench review, Mastodon client wishlist, Apple-related conferences.1647: Focus-caused notification issues, site-specific browser examples, virtualizing Windows on M-series Macs.#1648: iPhone passcode thefts, Center Cam improves webcam eye contact, APFS Uncertainty Principle. ![]()
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