Fair, not overpriced and not underestimated. There should be prices on the Service website. Necessarily! without asterisks, clear and detailed, where technically possible - as accurate and concise as possible.
If spare parts are available, up to 85% of complex repairs can be completed in 1-2 days. Modular repairs require much less time. The website shows the approximate duration of any repair.
Warranty and responsibility
A guarantee must be given for any repairs. Everything is described on the website and in the documents. The guarantee is self-confidence and respect for you. A 3-6 month warranty is good and sufficient. It is needed to check quality and hidden defects that cannot be detected immediately. You see honest and realistic terms (not 3 years), you can be sure that they will help you.
Half the success in Apple repair is the quality and reliability of spare parts, so a good service works directly with suppliers, there are always several reliable channels and your own warehouse with proven spare parts for current models, so you don’t have to waste extra time.
Free diagnostics
This is very important and has already become a rule of good manners for service center. Diagnostics is the most difficult and important part of the repair, but you don't have to pay a penny for it, even if you don't repair the device based on its results.
Service repairs and delivery
Good service values your time, so he offers free shipping. And for the same reason, repairs are carried out only in the workshop of a service center: they can be done correctly and according to technology only in a prepared place.
Convenient schedule
If the Service works for you, and not for itself, then it is always open! absolutely. The schedule should be convenient to fit in before and after work. Good service works on weekends and holidays. We are waiting for you and working on your devices every day: 9:00 - 21:00
The reputation of professionals consists of several points
Company age and experience
Reliable and experienced service has been known for a long time.
If a company has been on the market for many years and has managed to establish itself as an expert, people turn to it, write about it, and recommend it. We know what we are talking about, since 98% of incoming devices in the service center are restored.
Other service centers trust us and refer complex cases to us.
How many masters in areas
If there are always several engineers waiting for you for each type of equipment, you can be sure:
1. there will be no queue (or it will be minimal) - your device will be taken care of right away.
2. you give your Macbook for repair to an expert in the field of Mac repairs. He knows all the secrets of these devices
Technical literacy
If you ask a question, a specialist should answer it as accurately as possible.
So that you can imagine what exactly you need.
They will try to solve the problem. In most cases, from the description you can understand what happened and how to fix the problem.
Product Popularity Apple in Russia is constantly growing, but still few people decide to use only a Mac without having a PC. Therefore, most Mac drivers work on both Mac OS X and Windows. It is also not uncommon for a person to have a PC at work and use a MacBook at home, or vice versa: at home a laptop with Windows control, and at work – Mac. Consequently, the problem of data synchronization immediately appears. How to make sure that contacts, letters, notes and other small things are the same on all devices?
This issue is even more acute for owners of PDAs and smartphones that allow them to work with e-mail. It turns out that we already have three devices, the information on which needs to be somehow unified and brought to a common denominator. How to do it? Apple offers several solutions: first, you can use the iSync program included in the distribution of the Mac OS X operating system.
This is a very simple utility that allows you to synchronize Mac OS X with mobile phones Nokia, Vertu, Sony Ericsson, Motorola and Palm. True, not all models are supported (for the missing ones you will have to look for special plugins from third-party developers), and most importantly, there is no possibility of synchronization with devices based on Windows Mobile and with PC computers. Here another Apple solution comes to the rescue (only this one is paid): .
MobileMe is a set of online services that includes virtual HDD, me.com email and contact book. You can create a mailbox (@me.com) and all your emails will be automatically delivered to your iPhone, iPod Touch, Mac and PC. The same goes for contacts. This way the synchronization problem will be solved. However, MobileMe also has its own disadvantages and features (read about MobileMe in!), but if we talk only about synchronization issues, then the main disadvantage here is the inability to work with another (not @me.com) by mailbox and, again, lack of support for Windows Mobile phones.
Thus, none of Apple's solutions this moment cannot fully satisfy the needs of “poppy farmers” who have mobile devices WinMobile and PC computers. Therefore, you need to look for third-party products. Our material today is dedicated to one such product.
SyncMate
Utility for Windows
The program “weighs” only 9 MB, which allows you to quickly download it from even over weak Wi-Fi. It installs on Mac OS X, but to work with a PC you will need to install an additional utility on Windows (this is necessary so that SyncMate on Mac can recognize your PC). It is even smaller - 5.8 MB.
True, this utility has practically no functions. The only thing it can do is show the synchronization log. Otherwise, its purpose is purely auxiliary - to make your PC visible to SyncMate on Mac. One of the disadvantages is that when you launch the utility, it immediately hides in the system tray (nothing appears on the screen), and at first (while you are not yet used to it) the question arises: did it start or not? And in order to open the settings window, you need to double-click on the SyncMate icon in the system tray. It is curious that the icon always (even when the utility is active) remains gray. It only turns color when the Mac is connected.
Now let's take a look at SyncMate on Mac itself.
SyncMate interface and list of possible devices
The SyncMate interface makes an ambiguous impression: on the one hand, everything seems clear, but on the other hand, it cannot be called stylish, and even the SyncMate icon looks like a foreign element in the Dock. However, these are subjective feelings. It is quite possible that you will like the SyncMate interface.
When launched, the program prompts us to choose what we will synchronize the Mac with. The choice is this: another Mac, Windows PC, WinMobile device, Google account (this will be useful for owners of PDAs based on Google Android), S40 phones, USB Flash Drive and Sony PSP. You can also back up information to online storage.
In principle, the list is impressive, but the absence of iPod touch and iPhone. However, to work with them there is iTunes, and in addition – the already mentioned MobileMe. So let’s try SyncMate to synchronize with those devices with which this is impossible using Apple’s means. First of all, with a computer.
Sync Mac and PC
For testing we used a computer with Windows 7 Ultimate and the package Microsoft Office 2010 beta. And on the Mac, Mac OS X 10.6.2 Snow Leopard was installed and Microsoft package Office 2008 For Mac Business Edition.
As already mentioned, to connect a Mac to a PC, you need to run the utility on the PC and at the same time SyncMate on the Mac. After that in Connection Setup Wizard select an item Windows PC.
In the window that opens, you must enter the IP address of the PC. Next, you need to choose what exactly you want to synchronize. SyncMate offers the following list here: Contacts, Calendar, Tasks, Notes (Entourage, Mail and Sticky Notes) and folders. However, we will see such variety only in the Expert version, which costs 950 rubles. The free option allows you to sync only your contacts and calendar.
You can select the direction of synchronization: for example, if you have a new PC, and before you used a Mac, then select This Mac -> PC. You can also choose the option This Mac PC, which will apply the latest changes to both computers.
A very interesting feature is folder synchronization. This can be useful in cases where you need to transfer some files from one computer to another, but you don’t have a flash drive or a double-sided USB cable at hand (however, even if you do, it’s much more convenient to do this via a wireless connection).
In the synchronization menu, put a tick on Folders, then select a folder on the Mac and a folder on the PC where you want to transfer the files. Then we start the process.
Backup
One of the interesting features of SyncMate is backing up information from your Mac to an external USB drive or online storage. How is this done? In the case of a flash drive or external hard drive, everything is simple: we connect it/her to the Mac, select USB Flash Drive from the list of devices, indicate the folders that we want to “back up” and start the process.
If we are going to use online storage, then we first need to register an account, and for this we need to receive a registration code (the online backup function is only available in the Expert Edition). But first things first. So you have chosen Backup. After this, a window like this will appear in front of you.
You need to select Register a new account.
Then you will be asked to enter your address Email and come up with a password. It's funny that all this is in English (although the program is Russified).
After this, you will need to enter the Registration Code, which will be sent to you in a letter (to the email address you specified). Unfortunately, the letter can take quite a long time. I waited for him for several hours.
After you enter the code, your account will be registered. In the future, to gain access to it, you will simply need to enter your email and password.
Now let's see what opportunities have opened up for us.
We can “back up” contacts (Address Book, Entourage), calendar (iCal, Entourage), tasks (To-Do List), Safari bookmarks and notes (Mail, Entourage). It's disappointing that there is no way to save iTunes libraries and just folders with files online. But all this can be saved to a flash drive or external hard drive (see above). So these two options ( USB flash drive And Backup) complement each other. Of course, one cannot help but recall Apple's proposals for backup: This is online storage for iDisc (as part of a MobileMe subscription) and Time Machine combined with Time Capsule. And we have to admit that SyncMate cannot compete with them in terms of backup capabilities (especially if there is a need to make full and regular backups or save files selectively), but the cost of the solutions is not comparable (for example, a MobileMe subscription will cost $99 per year). In addition, SyncMate has only one (and far from the most important) function.
Synchronization with WinMobile and other devices
In addition to syncing with your computer, SyncMate can provide synchronization with a variety of other devices. True, the set of possibilities here will be different in each case. The largest package of synchronization functions is available when working with WinMobile-based devices. With the Expert Edition, you can synchronize not only your contacts and calendar with your WinMobile phone, but also folders, notes, time and much more ( full list). There are even completely original things, for example, synchronizing Safari and Firefox bookmarks. I wonder if anyone uses WinMobile on their device Safari browser? :-)
In general, this is an analogue of ActiveSync on Windows, only with more advanced capabilities. For example, there is an SMS message manager (you can view and edit SMS messages from a WinMobile device on your Mac), and the time synchronization function is also very useful (if you have different times on your Mac and on your phone, SyncMate can bring them to a common denominator ; however, it would be nice to tie this function to the Internet in order to adjust devices not to each other, but to the exact “present” time).
Let's say a few words about how you can connect a WinMobile phone and a Mac. SyncMate supports two options: via USB cable and via Wi-Fi. But the latter option still requires a preliminary USB connection to install the corresponding utility on the device. After the utility is installed, you can disconnect the cable and synchronize the phone using wireless connection. To do this, you will need to enter the phone's IP into SyncMate, but here the installed utility will already come to the rescue (there is an option Show my IP/Name; By the way, again: where is the Russification?).
Once the connection is established, you can carry out all of the above synchronization options. But my first attempt to open the message manager (when connecting the HTC Touch communicator via Wi-Fi) ended with the program freezing. This is probably not SyncMate's fault, but, one way or another, it is much more reliable to work via USB. You can also connect a PSP via USB, but the Nokia S40 synchronizes only via Bluetooth.
Addition
After the article was written, it was published a new version SyncMate - 2.5. Below is a list of innovations (according to the manufacturer):
- Added the ability to automatically synchronize data (Autosync). Allows you to set different synchronization conditions: sync when the device is connected, sync every X minutes, etc.
- Real-time data synchronization (the option is only available when synchronizing folders between Mac OS X and other Macs, Sony PSP, Windows PC and USB drives). As soon as the data changes in one of the two devices, it is immediately updated in the second device.
- Built-in video converter that converts videos into various
formats: AVI, MPG, MP4, WMV, ASF, 3GP, thus allowing you to resize the video and convert this video to any format that is supported by your device (iTunes and Video plugin).
- When synchronizing Safari bookmarks between Mac OS X and Windows PC, you can choose which browser on Windows PC to save these bookmarks (Opera, Firefox, Chrome).
- Added the option to synchronize iTunes&Video and iPhoto between several Mac OS X computers.
- Synchronization of Mac and Windows Mobile devices is possible via Bluetooth (synchronization via Wi-Fi or USB is also supported).
- Ability to search by SMS messages and Call History.
- Export SMS messages to TXT, CSV, HTML formats.
- Ability to ignore USB devices in case you don't want to synchronize with them.
conclusions
If you have an Apple computer or laptop, but in addition to it you also have Windows devices, then SyncMate will be almost irreplaceable. Especially considering that the basic version of the program is free (it will allow you to synchronize your contacts and calendar). If your needs are greater, and you are completely satisfied with the SyncMate interface, then you should take a closer look at the Expert Edition, which significantly expands the synchronization capabilities. And although the program can and should be improved in a number of areas (for example, it would be nice to expand the capabilities of backup and synchronization with a PC, as well as improve the stability of working with WinMobile via Wi-Fi), it fully justifies its cost (950 rubles).
First, let's look at why you might need to synchronize two Apple devices. Firstly, this is a convenient feature that helps you quickly transfer content from one gadget to another. Secondly, synchronization helps save time. After all, the same manipulations with a flash drive took up a lot of your time, especially if it still needs to be formatted.
Selecting a second device
Naturally, this is not so remarkable, however, it is no secret that synchronizing iOS and Mac OS X is not an easy task. Usually it runs crookedly and obliquely. But the article will describe simplest method their optimization. We will synchronize MacBook Air and iPhone/iPad.
iCloud is an incredible application that will make your work much easier. To do this, it transfers the necessary stored data via a special wireless communication to the desired device. The program is very popular, and due to its functionality, it has deserved its laurels quite rightly.
What could be better than an application like this? An application that even works with Windows! We conclude that the application is suitable for all Mac owners without exception.
The point is that the program binds you to a free account online service, and not to the gadget itself. You can log into your account from any device and all necessary information/ the content will be with you. Information about calls or SMS, all files from another original (native) device will be in full access. Even if the original device is broken, you can easily log into your account from another MacBook and work with the information you know is saved. Such qualities are ideal for people who work on a computer.
You will have access not only to necessary programs, but also saving all files. Either text editor or a photo with a filter - you always have the opportunity to get to the document. Using a hard drive you can protect all your data, and iCloud service will take care of saving the settings.
The application is not virtual hard drive. This is a service that transmits stored information via wireless network automatically, and file storage is completely safe.
Process
With iOS5 and newer modifications, you no longer have to worry about a wired connection. The first thing you need to do is launch it on your iPhone or iPad, open “Settings” and “General” on the device. Now look for the item “Sync with iTunes over Wi-Fi”. If your device has an earlier operating system, you should first connect the USB cable and launch iTunes. Next, at the bottom, look for “Sync this iPad over Wi-Fi” and click. Click “Apply”.
Note
iPad/iPhone and the MacBook itself must be connected to one Wi-Fi networks. It is worth saying that synchronization is faster through the wire. This is important, don't forget. iTunes must also be enabled on both devices. iTunes must be updated to version 10.5 to work with the service. Follow the exact instructions. If interaction with the service is still not established, it is best to contact the help center.
Manual synchronization
If there are problems with automatic synchronization, there is an option to carry out the process manually. First, connect the MacBook Air to the device, then turn on iTunes program. Click on the “Devices” button, it is located in the upper right part of the screen. If it is not there, you should first click on “Media Library”. Now in the main section of the application, select “Browse”. Check the box next to “Process music and videos manually”/“Process music manually”. Now all you have to do is click on “Apply”.
Bottom line
The article covered in detail the question of what iCloud is and how to use it. And now, if the first method fails, you have a chance to try synchronization again.
The process, which is not at all difficult, can help in work and simply using gadgets. And support for different operating systems makes the program indispensable. If you only have one Apple device, then the application is unlikely to help you.
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