Lesson 11. Use Your .Mac Account to Stay in Sync

GoalsLearn how easy it is to keep multiple computers synchronized.
Discover how syncing is different in Tiger from earlier versions.

A .Mac (pronounced dot mac) account is a wonderful thing. It has so many worthwhile features, plus an email account (and alias accounts, which are really great too) that you can check anywhere in the world. In this lesson I'll provide an overview of a .Mac account and focus on the synchronization feature that is particularly useful if you have more than one Mac: Perhaps you have a desktop machine plus a laptop plus a Mac at work and sometimes you update your Address Book on one Mac and sometimes on another. Sometimes you make Safari bookmarks on one computer and sometimes ...

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