How to sync files from iPhone to a new Mac hard drive

Recently my Mac crashed and I lost my hard drive. How do I sync my new drive to my iPhone or transfer all my pictures, calendar, contacts and iTunes library content to my new drive from my iPhone? The sync process does not allow to sync from iPhone to mac or at least I cant figure out how to do it.
Also, I have all my information at my mobil.me account, how do I sync that to my mac?
Please help,
Thanks,
Andrea

You should back-up all important info/music/pics to an external source for this very reason. If you did not do this, then you are going to have problems.
The iphone music and pic sync is one way - computer to iphone. You can e-mail the pics to yourself one at a time. The pics are optimized for iphone so they will not be the same quality as the original. Only itunes purchased music can be transfered from iphone. With iphone connected, in itunes click File>Transfer Purchases.
You can set up your mobileme on your new computer:
http://www.apple.com/support/mobileme/

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