06-07-2011, 02:48 AM
M A V I C wrote:
- Shared calendars. I'd like to be able to add stuff to my wife's calendar, and her add stuff to mine.
- iTunes and the iOS need to understand people don't just use one device with one computer. I want all of my media on one server, then any system connected to that server (can require same iTunes auth) can have access to all of the media. And if someone buys media on one of the client machines, it should automatically download to the server.
- If I understand the Profile Manager correctly, I like the idea of being able to log into another machine and have access to my usual stuff, and prefs set the same too.
We use BusySync to keep our calendars synced between my wife's MBA and my desktop (and her iPhone, and my iPod, and my son's iPod...). BusySync has since been upgrade to BusyCal, but even under 10.6 BusySync works just fine.
iTunes sharing works well for us. I guess if my wife bought tunes at the ITMS I'd have to move the actual files to my desktop mac.
The biggest drawback is that we can sync the iPods and iPhone only to my desktop machine. I wish Apple would address that without requiring a server.
We rarely use each other's machines so the Profile Manager stuff isn't an issue for us. Still, I should get a bookmark sync app. There's a huge difference between what software gets used, or is even installed, on each machine, so we wouldn't need much more than that. But if we had similar machines, it'd be fantastic to be able to switch seamlessly from one machine to another -- especially with the Resume state thingie we heard about today.