Dropbox becomes like your iPhoto. You just import it into Dropbox and then you take it from Dropbox to your iPhoto Library.
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Sync iPhone 5S on a PowerMac G5?
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Intell
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Not quite, Dropbox isn't needed. You can still import photos directly to iPhoto from your iPhone.
eyoungren
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Dropbox actually creates a specific folder (Camera Uploads) and uploads directly to that folder. Unlike iPhoto which stores the pictures in a specific location and series of folders while maintaining a database.
The other thing about Dropbox is that you can give the URL to other people and they can view your photos online without having to have a Dropbox account.
The advantage to Dropbox is that there is a setting in the iOS app that allows automatic uploading of your iPhone pics directly to that folder. From there it syncs to all your devices. The drawback is that it requires Location Services to be active (it backgrounds) which causes somewhat accelerated battery drain.
Yes I can also confirm this works fine with my iPhone5 and iPhoto '09 on the G5, no problems at all.
Yes you can
iPhoto allows you to sync pics from your phone to your G5..syncing with iTunes, though, is a whole other story.
I'd like to be able to sync my iphone and ipad with my G5 but sadly, I can't.
I am looking for a way to do this..hopefully Apple will eventually allow us to do so but for now.. 🙁
iPhoto allows you to sync pics from your phone to your G5..syncing with iTunes, though, is a whole other story.
I'd like to be able to sync my iphone and ipad with my G5 but sadly, I can't.
I am looking for a way to do this..hopefully Apple will eventually allow us to do so but for now.. 🙁
eyoungren
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Apple is never going to allow us to do this. PowerPC died to Apple in 2006. Steve Jobs himself had a burial ceremony for Classic. Apple got rid of Rosetta in Lion. And they killed syncing with iTunes by making 10.6.4 Intel only. It's been a systematic cutting off of PowerPC that is overtly intentional.
When someone is agressively trying to kill you dead why would you think that they'd allow you to do something in the future that keeps you alive?
No, your options are Eltima Syncmate or PhoneView. Or just using your iPhone without syncing to iTunes. Lots of doors open to you if you jailbreak.
eyoungren
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Not yet.
They are working hard on iOS 7 and they have some exploits along with a few that they saved from the iOS 6 jailbreak. The problem is getting from one exploit to another to make the whole thing fall down. It's like dominoes. If they are not all correctly lined up you don't get them all knocked down. If you can't knock down the final piece, you don't have a jailbreak.
Essentially what you are trying to do with a JB is exploit a bug. It's exploiting the bug that allows the system to fall down. And when the system fails you can get it to run YOUR code. And the code we want to inject is the code that allows us to run unapproved (by Apple) tweaks and apps.
The JB team that is working on this is also waiting at a minimum for iOS 7.1. The reason for that is that that's a major point release. Once Apple releases a major point release the frequency of updates slows down. That gives the JB team more time to have a jailbreak out there before Apple releases an update that plugs the holes. If they released right now, guaranteed Apple would fix it in 7.1. That would mean only people on 7.0.3 or below could jailbreak. And the window to go to 7.0.3 would be closed because of the 7.1 update.
It's a waiting game. But I'm patient. It took them until February 2013 to get a jailbreak out for iOS 6 and that was released in September 2012.