HT201342 Why would I want an iCloud email instead oh my mac,com address

I do not see why I need an iCloud email address if I have a mac.com address

Use whichever you want, there are no additional benefits to using either.

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HT201342 Why do I need a iCloud address I really don't understand what e iCloud is? I'd like to sync calendars from my iPad to my Mac will this help we achieve this open to anyone's input w previews experience!

Why do I need an iCloud email address? I mean I know I already have one set up but have never activated it what is the benefit?
Also does it make it easier to sync items between devices ie I'd like to get the calendar on my iPad 2 to transfer to my MacBook pro and vice versa.
Is it possible to activate iCloud syncing with out the iCloud email?
Any advice would be much appreciated

You can go to Settings>iCloud and enter you Apple ID to set up your account, then turn on syncing for the data you want to sync. If you don't want to use iCloud email, don't turn Mail to On. If you're Mac is runniing OS X 10.7.2 or later, you can sync it with your iCloud account. You do this by going to System Preferences>iCloud, signing into your iCloud account, then checking the data you want to sync with iCloud (see http://www.apple.com/icloud/setup/mac.html).
If you sync your calendar on both your phone and your Mac with your iCloud account, then will remain in sync using iCloud.

Why would you want to always BCC yourself?

I know this is an arbitrary question, but I was just writing an iPhone tutorial and I saw the option, "Always BCC Myself". Apple thought it so important as to give the feature its own slider in the menu, so I wondered "who are these people who want to always BCC themselves, and why?". I find this very curious, as BCC'ing yourself is a lot like just merging your inbox and sent folder. Why would anyone want to do this.. what practical purpose does it serve.. does anyone out there know?

Some people only have POP3 email accounts. With a POP3 account, if you are using the iPhone as well as a computer email client, you may want to keep some record of messages you have sent all in one location, perhaps the computer email client. However, if you reply to someone using the iPhone, you would not have that record on the computer email client. BCC yourself provides you a copy you can pick up on the computer email client and then move to the Sent folder for a record. While this is not necessary for IMAP or Exchange, not everyone has that luxury.

Why would I want to use the mail icon on my dock?

Hi all,
As I'm endeavoring to further my knowledge on the Mac, I'm curious as to know if I'm losing out on not using the mail icon on my dock.
Any particular reason I should use it? I currently use yahoo and gmail. I think they're considered IMAP technology and I can access it anywhere any anyhow as long as I have access to the web. I also use my iphone to access it.
So... why would I want to use the mail icon on my dock? Are the reasons going to be for the characteristics for POP? I.E, can off load mail to my Mac and read later without having live access to web?
BTW, if I did want to setup mail on the dock. What is the incoming and outgoing mail server for yahoo? Sorry, could locate that info. in yahoo mail.
Thanks in advance.

I think you are asking why you should use the Mail application versus using "web mail" through a web browser, and not just about the Mail icon on the Dock, is that correct?
You should use whatever is more convenient.
Mail is a standalone application designed for email access, so it is more responsive and has more features. Web-based apps are getting much better, but you can still tell you are in a web browser. You can work off-line, even if you use an IMAP service (such as MobileMe). You can save emails locally, even if most emails are on the server, and if it's POP, all your messages are downloaded to a local database (that may or may not be an advantage to you).
Mail is integrated with Address Book and iCal (and other Apple apps). You can use Time Machine to recover individual deleted emails, just like you would recover deleted files or folders (using the +flying through space+ interface).

HT201263 My iPad 1 can only be updated to iOS 5 yet most apps run on iOS 7. Why can't I make the update on my iPad 1? Is this so I buy another iPad 2+? Now why would I want to buy something that will be obsolete in a few years?

My iPad 1 can only be updated to iOS 5 yet most apps run on iOS 7. Why can't I make the update on my iPad 1? Is this so I buy another iPad 2+? Now why would I want to buy something that will be obsolete in a few years? I really want to purchase an Live TV plan yet I need iOS 7 to run most TV apps.
Can Apple tell me why my iPad 1 is obsolete?
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It's not obsolete as much as the first gen simply lacks the power to run the newer operating systems. IT doesn't have enough RAM. If someone managed to hack it to get iOS 6 or 7 on there they'd just have a slow, boggy and unresponsive device. (think putting windows 7 on an old laptop.
Unfortunately software moves faster than hardware. Every thing goes obsolete. I've had my ipad 2 for two and a half years now and I know it only has so much longer left to it too. Just the 'joys' of advancing technology.

Why would I want to change JPEG quality of photos when exporting them from iPhoto?

Why would I want to change JPEG quality of photos when exporting them from iPhoto? Changing the quality of the print changes the size of the saved file and thus impacts the speed at which it is moved on the internet. But other than size of the file, what is the advantage of changing the quality?

I have no idea why you would want to do anything
Some people want lower quality to reduce file size for different reasons
It is an option - if you do pot want to do that do not use that option
LN

I am having trouble with my hotmail emails and want to get rid of them and start to use icloud emails instead. Is this possible?

I am having problems with my hotmail and live emails and want to cancel them and use icloud email instead, is this possible and how do I do it by creating icloud emails, and using icloud emails

See the link below for how to sign up for and set up an iCloud account, including an @icloud.com email address:
http://www.apple.com/icloud/setup/
You'll need to update your Mac OS to 10.7.5 or later.

How can I change my current icloud email? i still want an icloud email but under a new address name

i still want an icloud email but under a new address name.
I simply want a new email address under icloud but keep my same account. is this possible??? how can i do this??

Hi CMOREL,
Thanks for visiting Apple Support Communities.
If you'd like to use a different iCloud email address, you can create an alias at iCloud.com. See this article for the steps to create an alias:
iCloud: Create or change email aliases
http://support.apple.com/kb/ph2622
All the best,
Jeremy

Why would anyone want to use ASM Clustered File system?

DB Version: 11gR2
OS : Solaris, AIX, HP-UX
I've read about the new feature ACFS.
http://www.oracle-base.com/articles/11g/ACFS_11gR2.php
But why would anyone want to store database binaries in a separate Filesystem created by Oracle?

Hi Vitamind,
how do these binaries interact with the CPU when they want something to be done?
ACFS should work with Local OS (Solaris) to communicate with the CPU . Isn't this kind of double work?ACFS dont work with .... but provide filesystem to Local S.O
There may be extra work, but that's because there are more resources that a common filesystem.
Oracle ACFS executes on operating system platforms as a native file system technology supporting native operating system file system application programming interfaces (APIs).
ACFS is a general purpose POSIX compliant cluster file system. Being POSIX compliant, all operating system utilities we use with ext3 and other file systems can also be used with Oracle ACFS given it belongs to the same family of related standards.
ACFS Driver Model
An Oracle ACFS file system is installed as a dynamically loadable vendor operating system (OS) file system driver and tool set that is developed for each supported operating system platform. The driver is implemented as a Virtual File System (VFS) and processes all file and directory operations directed to a specific file system.
It makes sense you use the ACFS if you use some of the features below:
• Oracle RAC / RAC ONE NODE
• Oracle ACFS Snapshots
• Oracle ASM Dynamic Volume Manager
• Cluster Filesystem for regular files
ACFS Use Cases
• Shared Oracle DB home
• Other “file system” data
• External tables, data loads, data extracts
• BFILES and other data customer chooses not to store in db
• Log files (consolidates access)
• Test environments
• Copy back a previous snapshot after testing
• Backups
• Snapshot file system for point-intime backups
• General purpose local or cluster file system
• Leverage ASM manageability
Note : Oracle ACFS file systems cannot be used for an Oracle base directory or an Oracle grid infrastructure home that contains the software for Oracle Clusterware, Oracle ASM, Oracle ACFS, and Oracle ADVM components.
Regards,
Levi Pereira

HT5621 Why I cant use my @icloud email? Does that means I need to get a Gmail account? ***

Why I cant use my @icloud email? Does that means I need to get a Gmail account? ***

You can't use your existing @icloud.com email address as the primary email address for your existing Apple ID. You have to use a non-Apple email address (such as Gmail).

Why would I want Windows on my new MacBook Air?

I have a beautiful new MacBook Air and I'm running through all the Updates etc. Then I see Bootcamp which is supposed to help me install Windows. My question is, why would I want windows? Are there things that Windows can do that Mac can't do? Or do I just need to learn what the equivalents are of the old windows programs in my new operating system eg in windows i would use explorer to search the web - on my mac i use safari - are there equivalents to microsoft word and publisher and powerpoint just in Mac language and what are they called?

. My question is, why would I want windows?
I have no idea why anyone would.
Are there things that Windows can do that Mac can't do?
No.
are there equivalents to microsoft word and publisher and powerpoint just in Mac language and what are they called?
You can buy Microsoft Office for the Mac, but you should consider a number of better alternatives to Microsoft's bloatware. Some are free.
Consider
LibreOffice (donation-supported)
NeoOffice ($10 but older version is free if you can find it)
OpenOffice (donation-supported)
Numbers ($19.99)
Keynote ($19.99)
Pages ($19.99)
I use Numbers and Pages and have been completely Microsoft - free for years. Life is better without Microsoft.

Why would one want this feature?

The "Copy music to itunes folder etc" is the default setting...why would anyone want double the files? All this does is fill up your hard drive faster... Is there an advantage?

I organize them myself...thats the only reason?
Pretty much. I like it because it makes moving the library to a different hard drive or computer really easy. Also, if you have multiple computers, it makes copying individual songs or albums into iTunes a bit easier on the other computers, too: just mount the drive with the song on the desktop, then drag the song into iTunes. iTunes copies the song across the network and into that iTunes' library. It save one step, though it's admittedly not a very big step.
But if you organize them yourself, then there's probably no real advantage for you.
charlie

Why would anybody want Sub Scription Based Music? Just curious.......

I was wondering, why would ppl want sub scription based music anyways? I mean....it's just like RENTING music, u dont exactly KEEP it. To me, i prefer to keep my music for a lifetime, which is why sometimes i still buy CDs, but i use MusicMatch mostly. I just dunno why u guys would pay $4 a month to rent music when u can pay .99 for a song that u can keep forever. I mean, in time, the company u use for Sub Scription based music will be shut down eventually, after many many years, who knows how long, and after they close down, u cannot renew ur license and well, u just wasted all that $4 a month on renting music, while i paid .99 a track and still have that music, forever and ever! Just wondering why.......

Computerking, guys like you are now the RIAA's latest excuse for copy-protected "CD"'s (I put "CD" in quotes because they're not really CD's per Philips). Read this article:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/2005084/a...usic_retailers
Believe me, DRM is a LOT better than copy protection; at least with most purchased DRM files you can burn a real CD (without copy protection OR installing copy-protection trojan apps). Subscription DRM doesn't let you burn, but with the ability to transfer to compatible MP3 players, it's not that big a deal as long as you can understand renting vs. owning. (It's the main reason I bought a Zen Micro.) Copy protection is making me rethink the whole idea of buying CD's--and I'm old enough to remember when vinyl and cassettes ruled the world. (8-tracks were just barely before my time.)
I think subscription music is the wave of the future because you don't spend a whole lot of money on "new" (or new to you) artists whose CDs just clutter up your collection. You can listen to new music; if you really, really like it, you can buy the CD or purchased download.
Even if you don't like the rental model, buying download tracks (even with DRM) is a wonderful antidote against having to buy a whole album for one good song; you only have to spend 99 cents (most places) for the one good song. I myself started out with downloads mainly to get rare collaborations, etc. that appear on other artists' albums, without having to buy the whole thing.
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Why would my creative cloud trial not run on a mac?

I have downloaded the trial and done the troubleshooting recommendations but when i have downloaded my trial and open my download assistant about half way through my installation abox appears saying that a file could not be found, I have tried it mutliple times but it will still not run. I have mountain lion if that effects anything?

hi i do not have a home/library/logs folder as it is a mac?
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2012 05:51:57 -0600
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: why would my creative cloud trial not run on a mac?
    Re: why would my creative cloud trial not run on a mac?
    created by Amit Batra in Adobe Creative Cloud - View the full discussion
We officially support Mountain Lion, so that shouldn’t be the issue. Can you please do the following: Please place a blank file named asu.trace in $HOME/Library/Logs folderLaunch Adobe Application Manager and initiate the download/install of any application that you expect to failAfter the failure, send us the following files as e-mail attachments (abatra AT adobe.com):
$HOME/Library/Logs/PDApp.log$HOME/Library/Logs/AdobeDownload/DLM.log$HOME/Library/Logs/Ado beDownload/DLM_Native.log
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ICloud email generating error SMTP has rejected address

A very strange thing just started happening this weekend. I have been an iCloud user since it was .Mac and it's been my primary email client for years. I receive about one new email every five minutes. I can send and receive email from my MacBook Pro, my iphone, my iPad, and via icloud.com. I all these platforms constantly and I've had zero issues... until yesterday.
The main email address I use is technically an alias. It's a @me address, since that's the shortest to type. Yesterday a co-worker informed me she had gotten this error message when trying to send me email (yet I've been receiving daily emails from her for months):
Reason: Remote SMTP server has rejected address
Diagnostic code: smtp;550 5.1.1 unknown or illegal alias
Sure enough, I looked and realized I had not received any email all day, and I have still not received any today. Normally I receive several emails per hour. I checked my mail via icloud.com and there was nothing there either. I let it go for the rest of the day, figuring it was a server problem that Apple was working on.
This morning, however, the problem was continuing. So I tried generating a test message from icloud.com and sent it to my main alias (my primary email address, because it's easier to remember) and also to my main icloud email, which is also a @me address. The test email went through to my main icloud address with no problem but was rejected by the main alias with the same error message as above.
Next, I tried investigating my aliases. I have made no changes to any settings in quite some time, but this is what I found. When I checked my email aliases (I have 3 @me alliases beyond my main icloud id) on icloud.com, they had all vanished. Then I looked at the icloud advanced settings on my iphone. I saw that all the @me aliases remained, however my main @me alias was grayed out.
And that's where I'm at now. I thought for sure this was an Apple server problem, but I haven't seen any other messages reporting the problem, so I'm not sure how to proceed.
Thanks in advance for anyone's help!

Hi Fly Line,
My world has gone eerily quiet too.
I am in exactly the same situation but mine is an old @mac address
So like you, the main email address I use is an @mac.com alias. I get lots of emails every day for work. They all stopped coming to this alias yesterday (June 6th)
Mail was behaving oddly, but I was too busy to work out what was happening.
I've just discovered that all my original @mac alliases have disappeared from Mail on my iMac and also have disappeared when I log into iCloud via Safari
The aliases are showing up on my iPhone, but as you have said, the primary email address (mine is an @mac adddress) is greyed out. I'm not sure if that's just because it's the primary address.
The aliases ARE showing up on my Macbook Pro.
I tried sending an email from both the iMac and the Macbook. Both returned the message "The server response was: unknown or illegal alias: alias"
I havent changed any settings either. I can't help you as I am at a complete loss. I may try calling Apple on Monday. I'll let you know if I come up with anything. It would be great to hear from you if you have found a solution

HT201342 Why would I want an iCloud email instead oh my mac,com address

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