Apple’s iCloud service is more than just a wireless hard drive in the sky. Rather, iCloud is a complete wireless storage and data synchronization solution. In a nutshell, iCloud is designed to store and manage your digital “stuff” — your music, photos, contacts, events, and more — keeping everything updated on all your computers and i-devices automatically with no physical (wired) connection or action on your part.
Like so many things Apple makes, iCloud just works.
iCloud “pushes” information such as e-mail, calendars, contacts, and bookmarks to and from your computer and to and from your iPad and other i-devices, and then keeps those items updated on all devices wirelessly and without human intervention. It also includes nonsynchronizing options, such as photo streams, e-mail, and 5GB of online storage.
Your free iCloud account includes 5GB of free storage, which is all many (if not most) users will need. If you find yourself needing more storage, 10, 20, and 50 gigabyte upgrades are available for $20, $40, and $100 a year, respectively.
A nice touch is that music, apps, books, periodicals, movies, and TV shows purchased from the iTunes Store, as well as your Photo Stream, don’t count against your 5GB of free storage. The things that do count, such as mail, documents, photos taken with your iPad 2 camera, account information, settings, and other app data, don’t use much space, so that 5GB should last you a long time.
If you want to have your e-mail, calendars, contacts, and bookmarks synchronized automatically and wirelessly (a wise choice), here’s how to enable iCloud syncing on your iPad.
Tap Settings on your Home screen.
Tap iCloud in the list of settings on the left.
Tap Account and provide your Apple ID and password.
Tap Done.
Now you can tap any of the individual On/Off switches to enable or disable iCloud sync for:
Mail
Contacts
Calendars
Reminders
Bookmarks
Notes
Photo Stream
Documents & Data
Find My iPad
Note that while iCloud lets you stream or download movies, TV shows, songs, podcasts, or other media files from the iTunes Store, if you don’t have a pretty good Internet connection, you may not be able to enjoy them.
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