Information Technology Reference
In-Depth Information
Quick Look.
Use Finder to click a video file and then press the spacebar to open Quick Look. Click the
Share icon, click Vimeo, fill in the upload details, and then click Publish.
iMovie.
Create a project, choose Share → Vimeo, fill in the upload details, click Next, and then click Pub-
lish.
Getting More Out of iCloud
These days, the primary source of online chaos and confusion is the proliferation of services and sites that de-
mand your time and attention. What started with web-based e-mail has grown to a website, a blog, a photo-shar-
ing site, online bookmarks, and perhaps a few social-networking sites, just to consume those last few precious
moments of leisure time. You might be sitting in a chair, but you're being run ragged anyway!
A great way to simplify your online life is to get a free iCloud account. You get a one-stop web shop that in-
cludes e-mail, an address book, a calendar, Find My iPhone (which locates not only lost iPhones but also iPads
and even your MacBook Air; see Chapter 7), and online storage for iWork documents. With Back to My Mac,
you can log in to a home or office desktop remotely and download files from it, and you can even take control
of the remote computer as if you were right there. With push technology, iCloud is able to automatically update
all your computers and devices for e-mail, schedule changes, and the like.
After your account is up and running, you get to the iCloud login screen by going to
www.icloud.com
.
Type
your Apple ID and password, and then click Sign In.
Forwarding iCloud messages to another account
If you have a bunch of e-mail addresses, chances are you have them all set up in MacBook Air's Mail applica-
tion or some other e-mail program because it's convenient to have all your messages in one spot. However,
when you set up an iCloud account, your life becomes a tad less convenient because your iCloud messages
reside only online, so now you have messages in two places: MacBook Air and iCloud. To fix this, you can for-
ward your iCloud messages automatically to one of your existing accounts. That way, the messages come to
your e-mail program via that account, and you can once again work with all your messages from a single loca-
tion.
Follow these steps to forward your iCloud messages to another e-mail address:
1. On any iCloud page, click the Switch Apps icon (the cloud) and then click Mail.
The iCloud Mail
page appears.
2. Click Actions (the gear icon) and then click Preferences.
The Preferences window appears.
3. Click the General tab.
4. Select the Forward my email to check box.
5. Use the Forward my email to text box to type the address where you want the iCloud messages for-
warded.
See Figure 5.6 for an example.
