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iCloud First Looks

When I heard that iCloud(free to $100 per year; $24.99 for iTunes Match), Apple’s free data syncing service, supported Windows machines, I was at first slack jawed and in a good way. Was it true Could Mac users now access their Calendar, Contacts, iTunes music, photos, and other files from a PC My open mouth tightened to a mere smile when I realized the answer was, “Well, sort of.”iCloud inhabits coque portable samsung j3 6 several Apple services, including the iOS, Mac OS, iTunes, and the Web. This can make it difficult to wrap your head around. Despite this, iCloud is an excellent service, providing automatic backups of iOS devices coque samsung a50 2019 ecriture and syncing for photos, music, Calendar, Contacts, and some document types. But don’t confuse it with other file syncing services along the lines of SugarSync (4.5 stars) and Dropbox (4 stars). Those two services, both PCMag Editors’ Choice products, as well as Microsoft SkyDrive, give you access to any files you mark to be synchronized from virtually any machine. For example, you can create and save a presentation on your office computer, sync it, and then access it from your home computer or mobile device by simply logging into the service.SEE ALSO: How to Add samsung j3 coque silicone Emergency Info to coque iphone 6 Your Phone’s Lock ScreenApple’s iCloud does coque pour samsung j4 synchronize some document files, but not any old thing you want. iCloud doesn’t think about syncing documents per se. It thinks about syncing the data you have associated with an app. For example, iCloud can synchronize office files made with Apple productivity software iWork and let you access them anywhere an iWork app is installed. And this is the only real way that iCloud under Windows suffers, since you won’t be running iWork in that OS any time soon.iCloud also syncs images across your iPhone, iPad, Mac, and even a Windows PC. iCloud makes music you buy through iTunes accessible to you from any instance of iTunes. With the optional add on service iTunes Match ($24.99 per year), it will sync and store up to 25,000 music files (no matter how you got them) that you have in your iTunes library. But iCloud doesn’t synchronize many other files that you create or edit in other apps.Once you understand what iCloud can and can’t do, you’ll likely find that it’s a valuable and worthwhile service nevertheless, but that doesn’t mean you don’t also need another file syncing service. All Apple device owners should sign up for iCloud as soon as humanly possible, but know that it won’t meet all your file syncing needs.iCloud Sign Up and RequirementsTo get iCloud, you need an Apple ID plus at least one of the following devices:Mobile device running iOS5 (iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, iPad, iPad 2, iPod touch 3rd or 4th generation; see How to Get Apple’s iOS 5 for help)Mac computer running OS X Lion 10.7.2A Windows PC running Windows 7 or Vista SP2.From a Mac running Lion, look under Preferences for the iCloud logo. Select it to dig into the options.For iPhones and iPads, look in Settings for the new iCloud icon that will appear after you update to iOS 5.Tips for Backing Up Your iPhone and iPadOne part of iCloud that you should definitely take advantage of is automatic backup. From the iCloud page of the Settings panel, look toward the very bottom of the screen for samsung a20 coque mickey the option Storage and Backup. Make sure “iCloud Backup” is switched on. Then, you’ll want to poke around in the Manage Storage section, especially if you have a lot of apps, to further determine what should get backed up and what doesn’t need to be. By turning off apps that are not important, you can save a lot coque fornite samsung j3 2016 of space. If saving space isn’t your thing, you could just buy more space. Apple gives iCloud users 5GB to start, but you can buy up to 50GB more (making 55GB total) for $100 per year. iOS devices only back up over Wi Fi so there’s no worry about the service hogging data from your data plan.A second feature to jump on upon installing iCloud is Find My iPhone or Find My iPad. Turn it on, and it can help you locate or remotely wipe a lost or stolen phone or tablet. There’s also a Find My iPhone/iPad app, which you can use to locate lost devices, including Macs, provided you set up Find My Mac on your laptop or desktop.What SyncsAs mentioned, you can’t exactly use iCloud to sync any file you want. In pushing toward an apps centric platform, Apple tries to get you to think about app data syncing, rather than files. For example, iCloud says, “I’ll coque samsung j3 2016 etui sync all your iWorks files.” at the application level. The way other syncing services work is they give you a folder (or you can choose from existing folders, or coque de telephone emoji samsung galaxy j3 2016 make new ones), and anything in those folders syncs. The difference is more a matter of mindset. Your iWorks documents are in fact going to a folder; it’s just that Apple dismisses the location in favor of getting you to think about the app.So, because of how it’s structured, iCloud is best suited to coque silicone kit pour samsung galaxy j3 2017 syncing data from specific apps, such as Contacts, Calendar, Photos, and a few others.Calendar. Turn on coque samsung a20e en silicone motif iCloud syncing for Calendar, and coque samsung j3 j330 all the events you have or create in an Apple Calendar will automatically appear everywhere else you use your Apple ID. Events you typed into your iPhone will show up on your Mac schedule, and vice versa.Contacts. Much like Calendar, the Contacts app turns into a universal address book when you use iCloud to sync it. Add or edit someone’s contact information from your iPhone, iPad, and Mac, and the changes will appear in your other devices automatically. The Contacts app lacks a good merge function, which could potential create some clean up work when you first sync your devices.Photo Stream. The Photo Stream option is more advanced than Calendar and Contacts, and it works on Windows PCs where coque samsung gamaxy a40 you install iCloud, as well as on Apple devices. Enable photo syncing on an iPhone, and you’ll get a new album called Photo Stream in the app. Enable Photo Stream on an iPad, and a Photo Stream tab will coque samsung galaxy j3 2016 new york appear in that app, too.Mac users need coque a50 samsung bumper to be running Mac OS X Lion or later to use Photo Stream, and Windows users need Windows Vista or 7. In Windows, Photo Stream automatically creates a Photo Stream folder under your My Pictures folder (you can change it if that’s not the folder you want), with coque autres iphone a subfolder for uploads. Anything put in the upload folder will automatically sync to other Photo Stream devices. On a Mac running Lion, you coque personnalisees iphone can sync coque iphone 8 images from iPhoto or Aperture it’s your choice but you don’t have an easily accessible folder because iCloud syncs at the app level, meaning it’s designed so that you can interact with your images through iPhoto or Aperture, rather than a folder on the Mac. (Of course, the files are in a directory, but the programs keep those directories mostly hidden coque samsung j3 2016 avec anneau from you. You can get at them, but that’s not really how the programs were designed to work.)What’s valuable about the Windows version of Photo Stream is it’s actually more flexible than using it on the Mac. You get a clearly labeled folder and coque vert samsung a40 can use whatever app you want to open photos, whereas on the Mac you’re restricted to iPhoto or Aperture.There are a lot of rules, settings, and options for using Photo Stream, and it can take a while to figure out how to use it the way you want. One smart feature of Photo Stream is that it can make camera raw files viewable on your iPhone or iPad.The caveat mentioned previously about not being able to upload files to a folder, thankfully doesn’t apply here. In other words, you can drop files into your “to be synced” folder, and they will sync to Photo Stream and appear on your other devices. iCloud does limit the contents to image files though: JPEG, TIFF, PNG and most RAW photo formats are supported. If you sneak an Excel file into that folder, it’s not going to show up anywhere else.Email. The iCloud web based email app is nicely designed and implemented. Its three panel window has folders on a collapsible left sidebar (Inbox, Drafts, Sent Archive, Trash, Junk, along with any custom folders you create), message headers and preview running vertically down the center, and the message contents in the largest area on the right. Along the top is a search box, as well coques personnalisees iphone 7 8 as icons for creating folders and using email (compose, delete, archive, and so forth). You can get a lot more out of other, free, Web based email services, like Gmail, Yahoo!, and Hotmail, which all work on multiple devices (including iOS devices) but if you do use Apple’s email, it’s nice that it does sync across devices.Similar to how it works with Photo Stream on a Mac, iCloud working with iWork doesn’t give you a folder where you can upload documents to sync. iCloud only syncs documents saved using iWorks. You can easily figure out where your documents are being saved (the default is /Library/Mobile Documents) and just plop some extra files in there to sync, but that’s not how the app or iCloud service were designed to work. And in any case, why bother For syncing documents of all kinds, you’re better off with a service made to do just that. But any files you make with iCloud supported apps will always be accessible from any device running that app so long as iCloud is enabled and you’ve saved the documents to the default location.Find My iPhone/iPad/Mac. Every Apple device owner should have and know how to use Apple “Find My” service. It was previously available as part of MobileMe, and it works pretty much the same now as it did then. Once you’ve set it up on your Apple devices, you can locate them on a map anytime they’re powered up and connected to Wi Fi or 3G. You can remotely wipe a device, or have it play a sound, lock, or flash a message. If the device is off when you misplaced or lost it, you can even set up an alert so that you receive an email when iCloud locates it. The map that shows the location of devices was accurate when we tested it in and around New York.iTunes. There are two levels of service that you can get with iCloud regarding iTunes. The first, which is included in whatever storage space you buy (or get for free) with iCloud, and that’s iCloud’s ability to store all music you’ve purchased through iTunes on Apple’s servers, where it’s accessible to you from up to ten iOS devices or iTunes installations. That service is only good for music purchased from iTunes not music or audio files you’ve bought, burned, or borrowed from elsewhere…