{"id":6463,"date":"2012-10-30T12:19:28","date_gmt":"2012-10-30T17:19:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=6463"},"modified":"2012-10-30T12:19:35","modified_gmt":"2012-10-30T17:19:35","slug":"facebook-contacts-icloud-and-mountain-lion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/30\/facebook-contacts-icloud-and-mountain-lion\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook, Contacts, iCloud, and Mountain Lion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nslog.com\/2012\/10\/26\/facebook_contacts_icloud_and_mountain_lion\">Erik Barzeski<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/nslog.com\/2012\/10\/26\/facebook_contacts_icloud_and_mountain_lion\"><p>Perhaps there was another way, but researching via the Internet didn&rsquo;t turn any up. I&rsquo;d be happy if someone was able to post something in the comments to help anyone in the future, but I believe this highlights one of the big problems with iCloud: there&rsquo;s no way to really get at your data in the cloud. I would have <em>loved<\/em> being able to go to icloud.com, log in, and click a button to restore my contacts to where they were at 10:38am, before I accidentally deleted them all and gave myself three hours of unnecessary work.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is the sort of situation where the cloud should be an <em>advantage<\/em>. iCloud should have a Restore Contacts feature like Gmail&rsquo;s. In fact, perhaps it would make more sense to sync one&rsquo;s Mac and iPhone with Google rather than iCloud.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Erik Barzeski: Perhaps there was another way, but researching via the Internet didn&rsquo;t turn any up. I&rsquo;d be happy if someone was able to post something in the comments to help anyone in the future, but I believe this highlights one of the big problems with iCloud: there&rsquo;s no way to really get at your [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[35,176,16,17],"class_list":["post-6463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-cloud","tag-contacts","tag-icloud","tag-mountainlion"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6463"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6465,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6463\/revisions\/6465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}