In my case I had a friend over with an Xbox, and wanted to connect it to the 720p projector that I have. And since I only have old computer speakers, I wanted to connect with analog output. Cracking the plastic case on the analog plug surely did the trick, now we have 720p glory at 110 inch screen, and we can have sound also.

I thank the original poster for the tip, I did indeed have a vice in the basement

I’ve just started trying to use Icloud with Mac Mail and Addess book to share contacts.

What i need to do: Share one address book between 3 computers so they all have the same contacts and can each update to master address book.

Should i then just use one master iCloud account on all 3 and delete the personal icloud accounts + contacts? Currently we each have our own address books that contain a lot of the same contacts, but I need to avoid duplications. Also i am confused as to how each person can add to the address book if they are not the master icloud holder?

Any help muchly appreciated, i feel it should be easier than i’m finding it.

Cheers Bryony

Yes my son continually buys games and such with his own apple Id, using iTunes cards I get him. The purchases are made with Mac and/or I think he uses the iPad too, using his account (but the AppStore always gets logged back into my account automatically, I think, when I sync the iPad). My daughter buys music using her account, redeeming gift cards again on the same Mac. All devices get backed up to that Mac.

Re: putting songs into playlists. When my daughter purchases music, she can’t initially put her purchases into the playlists (including her playlists). Apple kinda knows, and allows that you may have multiple accounts in iTunes, with one Mac. As such, it will allow you to sync the purchases from those multiple accounts to your own multiple devices, as long as they are associated only with that account, and that Mac. Therefore, after my daughter downloads music, she must log out of her account, and log back into my account, and then update iTunes Match so that Apple knows what is on my machine. Once Apple knows, via turning iTunes Match back on, and since the purchases are associated with my machine, ALL music from all accounts can be Matched and used with up to 5 authorized devices. Now that Apple knows account x purchases are part of the same machine registered for iTunes Match, my daughter can now place her music into the playlists, and they can be shared.

Devices get associated with one ID for one year, and cannot be changed again until one year has passed. This is to prevent people from going over to there friends computer, giving them your account, allowing them to download your previously purchase items, and then letting them switch there machine back to there own ID.

If you mistakenly delete a game of your sons and want to go back into the iTunes Music Store to redownload it under his account, you won’t be able to do it because iTunes will want to reassign your machine to his account for one year. DON’T DO IT as this will screw up your iTunes Match you paid for on your account.

Hope you find this useful

I wouldn’t create any iCloud account and give the password out to colleagues. You shouldn’t need to create a new iCal account for this at all–just create a separate Calendar in your personal iCloud account (+ button in the Calendar app) for your business calendar (rather than your personal stuff) and click the Share icon to share that with your colleagues. Have them do the same and share their business calendar with you. You’ll enter their email addresses in the Share dialog, and they’ll enter yours in their Share dialog. Everybody gets an email “Allie is sharing a calendar with you”–then you’re all subscribing to each others’ calendar and you can see their calendars in your list, and they can see your calendar in their list.

The only reason I can think of to create a separate iCal account is if you want to treat the business as a separate entity and have an account for the business–thus having its own Calendar and its own Contacts list that you can all share access rights to, and use as a Team Calendar or Team Contacts. But you may not need something like that.

If you use iTunes to sync in one user on your Mac, then purchases can be share with up to 5 iOS devices. (I don’t know if this works for multiple users on the same Mac, but it probably doesn’t work for accounts on personal Macs)

Using one iTunes, my daughter buys her stuff with her Apple ID, my son with his, my stuff with mine, and even a U.S. account as well (I’m up in Canada, so all my accounts other than the U.S. account, are Canadian).

Everything ends up on the same Mac, same user. I even subscribe to iTunes Match under my account ID. As long as the other iOS devices use my account for there app store, and the iTunes & iTunes Match are updated to this account on iTunes, after purchases have been made from other accounts, then all iOS devices can share the same apps and music. You just have to make sure the devices are locked into the same master account for the 12 mos. apple stipulates.

So, my wife’s iPhone will have her own iCloud setup, but my AppStore/iTunes account login. My daughter’s iPhone is the same (as well as my own). We all end up sharing each others apps, and music, and iTunes Match will stream all of it, but we purchase content under our own Apple ID’s.

It works

I use my ical daily for personal things, activities, bills due, etc. that syncs through icloud on my macbook, ipad and iphone. Now I need to set up a separate ical account to be accessed by myself and three colleagues. We all have icloud set up on our phones and computers. Do I need to create a new icloud account and then give the URL (?) to my colleagues?

I’m assuming I can create a new calendar that will show up in my main ical application as a separate box that i can view on its own or with MY other calendar entries, and same for my colleagues.

Perhaps the answer to this is above… please help!

Thank you,
Allie

Not true of Calendar: I don’t know a way to restrict a particular shared calendar to only “ring” on particular devices, unfortunately. So any Calendar alert (email, sound, etc.) affects all of our devices.

Also, a suppository of the contacts and calendars? I hope you meant repository. Ouch.

Anyway, I had always just had her account (wife@me.com) as my account on my iPhone, then when I bought an app or she did, the other one could also download it. I am concerned now that If I delete her account from my phone and put mine on as the main one, then all the apps will disapear and I will have to buy them again. Not the end of the world except that there are some that have info in them that I don’t want to lose. I use one time tracker to keep logs of time and all my jobs are entered into it, which would take a long time to re-enter…

So are all the apps and info going to go away?
thanks
ryan

As an example, I use Comcast for my phone service, and I can use their web interface to redirect calls to a different number. I should be able to redirect incoming calls to that Comcast number to ring on my iPhone if I wanted to. Haven’t tried it, though.