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Cloudy Mountain Is Born!

I’ve been trying to tie all my toys and applications together and it got harder and harder to come up with a plan that was simple enough to keep the in my head all at once. It turned out to be amazingly complicated. I’m talking about: Applications “Office” Stuff E-mail Photos and videos Tasks and checklists Plain old phone Contact list(s) iTunes Shared general “cloud” storage Blogging Personal and family finances E-books Information services Etc. etc. etc. Hardware Laptop computer Desktop computer Media computer iPhone 4 Kindle iPod Touch Apple TV Entertainment Centre It's amazing that a retired, 63-year-old couch potato can generate a major IT project from fairly ordinary information tastes. You get some terrific gridlock happening on both the client side (iPhone etc.) and the “cloud” side (iTunes, Google applications etc.) For a few days, I wrestled with hooking into my substantial investment in the tractor trailers of the information