Presence Tips

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All tips so far:

• When at your Mac, share files with others quickly by right-clicking a file and choosing Share in Presence. (This might be in the Services submenu, depending on your setup.)
• For even quicker file sharing, enter a standard sharing password in the shares window so you don't have to type it in every time. Great if you often share with the same people.
• Edit your Mac's iWork files (Pages, Numbers, Keynote) right on your iPad or iPhone with Presence's help. See the iWork instructions for Presence.
• You can look through your Mac's camera from anywhere in the world! Click/tap the camera icon in the toolbar. On your iPhone, it's in the second row of buttons.
• If other people log into your Mac with Presence, you might like to prevent pictures being taken through the camera while you're at your Mac – see "Allow photos with your Mac's camera" in the "Photos & Email" section of the Mac app.
• Presence supports resumable downloads, so you can restart a download if it's interrupted – this is particularly helpful when fetching big files. Safari doesn't support it though, so use Chrome or Firefox if you need this feature. If you share huge files with others you could advise them of this too. Using a download manager such as Speed Download is also an option.
• On iPhone and iPad, tap and hold to open a file immediately without displaying the menu. Just tapping a file brings up the options menu.
• You can reverse this behaviour so that tapping opens a file immediately - see the Options button in the toolbar.
• To display the options menu for a folder, tap and hold. Just tapping a folder opens it.
• If (like me) you don't like too many icons cluttering up your Mac's menu bar, you can hide Presence's menu bar icon - just untick the "Show menu bar item" box in the More Options section. You can still open Presence's window using the icon in your Applications folder.
• Presence will notify you when someone opens a share, uploads a file or logs into your Mac. You can view past events of this kind by going to More Options and clicking the View Event Log button.
• You can use Presence to let other people send you large files right to your Mac — securely of course. Just share a folder and select "Allow files to be uploaded to this folder". The other person views the shared folder, and can click the upload button (top right) to send you files.
• If you use Presence on iPhone/iPad, don't forget you can also access your Mac from any computer! Just enter your mymacname.findpresence.com URL into a web browser.
• Away from your Mac, but need to send files to someone? Presence can help – even with huge files. See these instructions.
• In Presence for iOS, use "Open in other app" to pass one of your Mac's files to another app on your device - think of Presence as the bridge between your Mac and other apps on your iOS device.
  
  This powerful feature opens up many possibilities – pass a photo to an image editor, a document to your favourite reading app, or whatever you can think of. If you have a file Presence can't open, find an app that can.
  
  This only works for apps that are able to receive files. If your favourite app isn't showing up, write to the developer and tell them their app should be able to receive files!
• Bookmarking Presence: You can bookmark Presence for quick access in your web browser, but you need to edit the bookmark manually – set its address to http://yourmacname.findpresence.com. (If you just bookmark the page normally, you'll get a bookmark that might stop working later.)
• When you create a password-protected share in Presence, the share email doesn't normally include the password - this is for security. But you can have the password included automatically and save yourself some typing: just tick "Include Password in Share Emails" under More Options in Presence on your Mac.