Two iphones, one imac and syncing questions

Me and my wife each have an iphone. Want to set up a mobileme family pack, to give her a unique email address, i have my own email address. can I then simply connect both phones to the imac, and let them sync independent of each other?
Any other issues? Thanks!!
Jeff

Yes.
You can sync as many as you like to the same computer. Each is different and can bet set up however you like.

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You have a few options which are detailed here:
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1495

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You can create an Address Book Group for your wife's contacts, which she can select only via her iPhone sync preferences for syncing with her iPhone, but your wife's contacts will be available in your Address Book. If you sync all contact information and all Address Book Groups available in your Address Book for your iPhone sync preferences, you will have your wife's contacts on your iPhone as well as your contacts. You can do the same - create an Address Book Group for your contacts only, and then sync this Group only with your iPhone.
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Hi, I am glad I found exactly the same question that I wanted to ask.
I am going through the same thing right now:
two iphones4,
single mac mini,
two accounts.
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She wants to sync my applications to her iphone on her user account side, but they are not in her itunes library.
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That article applies, as far as I can tell, to all things called iPod X where X can be nano, touch, classic etc.
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"Bob's Videos" is "Grouping contains Bob" + "Kind does not contain audio"
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etc.
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Create a free email account at gmail, yahoo, outlook.com, or one of the other email services and use that to create the second Apple ID.
Also, create separate user accounts on your computer for each of you to avoid unintentionally mixing up your data.

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