Following my successful switch to a MacBook, I also moved Susan to a Mac last night. She now has an Air with what I hope will be a great setup. All her email runs through gmail which syncs with both her iPhone and mail.app. Contacts and calendar are also kept in Google and sync’d to iPhone via push and to Mac address book and iCal via a program called ‘Spanning Sync’. This means that not only is all her key info automatically backed up to the cloud but cloud, MacBook and iPhone are all in sync. Time Machine is set up also and backs up to our ReadyNAS at home (need to find out if someone offers a cloud solution for Time Machine - that would be awesome). Now I just need to figure out how to get myself off Outlook!

Following my successful switch to a MacBook, I also moved Susan to a Mac last night. She now has an Air with what I hope will be a great setup. All her email runs through gmail which syncs with both her iPhone and mail.app. Contacts and calendar are also kept in Google and sync’d to iPhone via push and to Mac address book and iCal via a program called ‘Spanning Sync’. This means that not only is all her key info automatically backed up to the cloud but cloud, MacBook and iPhone are all in sync. Time Machine is set up also and backs up to our ReadyNAS at home (need to find out if someone offers a cloud solution for Time Machine - that would be awesome). Now I just need to figure out how to get myself off Outlook!