(if you only have an official Windows XP lying around, you can either try to use the older WinXP-compatible version of iCloud Control Panel for Windows) – Windows Vista or Windows 7 with an official registration which is NOT free, but you might have it lying around from an old unused PC… – virtualization software like Parallels, VM Ware Fusion (both rather expensive if you’ll only use it for iCloud Photostream) or Sun/Oracle’s FREE VirtualBox for OSX : – at least 10GB of free harddisk space (on top of the 25% or more free hard disk space needed for MacOSX to run properly) …but it is both time-consuming and expensive, since you will need : – setup iPhoto (on MacOSX) to auto-import photos from the shared Mac&Windows-folder – setup iCloud Control Panel to download iCloud’s Photostream to a shared Mac&Windows-folder (on Windows) – install iCloud Control Panel for Windows (on Windows) – register Windows (else you won’t be able to run it in the long run) – install Windows (on a virtual machine in the vritualization software) – install virtualization software (on OSX) INFO ON SETTING UP THE iCloud Control Panel for Windows ON A MAC :Īpple has released an iCloud Control Panel 2.0 for Windows Vista and Windows 7 (iCloud Control Panel 1.0 was for Windows XP also).Īnd since MacOSX 10.6 Snow Leopard can run OSX and Windows side-by-side, using virtualization, it is possible to set Photostream up on a Snow Leopard Mac… “Shared Photo Stream”) that you publish online (on an iCloud webpage), from there you can import them on your Mac more info on this can be found here : But even though it is possible to install iPhoto 9.2.3 on a Mac running OSX 10.6.8 Snow Leopard, iPhoto will only show the Photostream option if you are on a Mac running 10.7 Lion or 10.8 Mountain Lion.ġ- use the workaround using the Eye-Fi app, as previously outlined here :Ģ- use the rather costly and time-consuming setup of iCloud Control Panel for Windows on a virtual Windows-installation on your Mac ģ- turn the iCloud control Panel for Windows into a OSX-app by putting it inside a (Windows Vista-compatible) Wine-wrapper Ĥ- use Dropbox (or alike) to bypass Photo Stream completelyĥ- wait for Apple to upgrade iPhoto and MacOSX 10.6 with support for Photo Stream Ħ- upgrade to a new Mac ħ- get iPhoto for iOS and create a Journal that you publish online (on an iCloud webpage), from there you can export to iTunes more info on this can be found here :Ĩ- in the iOS Photos app, create a secondary Photo Stream (a.k.a. The requirement for iCloud Photostream-compatibility on a Mac is iPhoto 9.2.3 (from iLife ’11). …is there any way to get my photos ‘Photostream-like’ onto my Snow Leopard Mac automatically ?
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