Book description
Maximize the latest iCloud capabilities
This all-new edition of How To Do Everything: iCloud fully covers iCloud’s versatile features and offers step-by-step directions on how to use each one, including Shared Photo Streams, the iWork for iCloud apps, and iCloud Keychain. You’ll learn how to set up iCloud, transfer and sync app-specific data, documents, files, photos, music, and other content among your computers and iOS mobile devices.
- Use iCloud with your Mac, iPhone, iPad, iPad mini, and iPod touch
- Migrate from Apple MobileMe to iCloud
- Learn new iCloud features, including Shared Photo Streams, iWork for iCloud online apps, iCloud Keychain, and much more
- Manage your digital music library and iTunes purchases with iCloud
- Use the Premium iTunes Match service
- Store and manage your digital photos with My Photo Stream
- Share your digital images with others using iCloud’s Shared Photo Streams
- Sync files and documents among computers and iOS devices
- Manage and sync your Safari bookmarks, reading list, and passwords using iCloud and iCloud Keychain
- Work with iWork for iCloud
- Learn about other cloud-based services
- Sync and share apps, app-related data, and eBooks among iOS mobile devices and your computer(s)
- Back up your iPhone and iPad with iCloud
- Stream Apple TV content to your HD TV
- Locate a Lost Mac, iPhone, iPad or iPod touch with iCloud’s Find My… feature
- Manage your iCloud email account
- Troubleshoot iCloud-related problems
Table of contents
- Cover
- About the Author
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents at a Glance
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
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Introduction
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What’s in This Book?
- Part I: Learn About Online File Sharing and Apple’s iCloud
- Part II: Manage Your Music, Multimedia Content, and Photos in the Cloud
- Part III: Share Documents, Music, Data, and More via iCloud
- Part IV: Discover More Uses for iCloud When Used with Your Mac and iOS Mobile Devices
- Part V: Additional iCloud Features and Functions
- Conventions Used in This Book
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What’s in This Book?
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Part I: Learn About Online File Sharing and Apple’s iCloud
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1. Learn About Cloud-Based Online File-Sharing Services
- iCloud Works with Many Apple Products
- Set Up a Free iCloud Account
- What Exactly Is iCloud Anyway?
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What iCloud Can Do
- iCloud Works with iTunes
- Manage Your Entire Music Library with Premium iTunes Match Service
- Store, View, and Share Your Photos Online
- iCloud Can Make Surfing the Web Easier Too
- Use iCloud to Back Up and Sync App-Specific Data
- iCloud Can Be Used in Conjunction with the iWork Apps
- Use iCloud to Track the Exact Location of Your Mac, iPhone, or iPad
- Maintain Full Backups of Your iOS Mobile Devices Using iCloud
- iCloud Comes with Its Own Email Account
- iCloud Works Nicely with Apple TV Too
- Pick and Choose Which iCloud Features You Want to Use
- Discover What Using a Cloud-Based File-Sharing Service Costs
- What You’ll Need to Start Using iCloud with a Mac
- What You’ll Need to Start Using iCloud with an iPhone or iPad
- Let’s Get Started
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2. How Mac Users Can Utilize iCloud
- Manage Your Music via iCloud
- Sync and Share Digital Photos Using iCloud
- Sync App-Specific Data with iCloud
- Access App-Specific Data from Any Web Browser
- Use the Find My Mac Feature via iCloud
- Share Files Using the Back to My Mac Feature
- Sync Your Ebooks Library via iCloud
- Use iCloud’s Documents in the Cloud Feature to Sync iWork Data, Documents, and Files
- Additional iCloud Functionality for Your Mac
- 3. How iPhone, iPad, iPad mini, and iPod touch Users Can Utilize iCloud
- 4. How to Use the New OS X Mavericks and iOS 7 iCloud Features
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1. Learn About Cloud-Based Online File-Sharing Services
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Part II: Manage Your Music, Multimedia Content, and Photos in the Cloud
- 5. Manage Your Digital Music Library and iTunes Purchases
- 6. Use the Premium iTunes Match Service
- 7. Store and Manage Your Digital Photos with My Photo Stream
- 8. Share Your Digital Images with Others Using Shared Photo Streams
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Part III: Share Documents, Music, Data, and More via iCloud
- 9. Manage and Sync Your Safari Bookmarks, Reading List, and Passwords
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10. Working with iWork for iCloud
- Use the iWork for iCloud Apps from Any Compatible Web Browser
- Get Started Using Pages via iCloud
- The Interface for Numbers and Keynote Is Very Similar to Pages
- What’s Not Yet Possible Using the iWork for iCloud Apps
- Manage Numbers Spreadsheets via iCloud
- Work with Keynote Presentations via iCloud
- The iWork for iCloud Apps Can Utilize Full-Screen Mode
- Collaboration with Others Is Now Possible Using iWork Apps
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Part IV: Discover More Uses for iCloud When Used with Your Mac and iOS Mobile Devices
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11. Manage Apps, App-Related Data, and Ebooks with iCloud
- Configure Your iOS Device’s Contacts, Calendar, Notes, and Reminders Apps to Work with iCloud
- Configure the Contacts, Calendar, Reminders, and Notes Apps on the Mac to Work with iCloud
- Set Up Your PC to Access and Use Contacts, Calendar, Reminders, and Notes via Microsoft Outlook
- Configure iCloud to Synchronize Apps and Ebooks Among Your Computers and iOS Mobile Devices
- The Benefits of Syncing App-Related Data via iCloud
- 12. Back Up Your iPhone and iPad
- 13. iCloud and Apple TV: The Perfect Entertainment Combination
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11. Manage Apps, App-Related Data, and Ebooks with iCloud
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Part V: Additional iCloud Features and Functions
- 14. Locate a Lost Mac, iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch with iCloud’s Find My… Feature
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15. Manage Your iCloud Email Account
- Turn On the iCloud Mail Sync Option on Each of Your Macs and iOS Mobile Devices
- Manage Your Email Account Using the Mail App on Your Mac or iOS Mobile Device
- Manage Your Email Account Using the Online Edition of the Mail App Available Through iCloud.com
- iCloud Represents an Ongoing Evolution in Cloud-Based Computing
- A: Troubleshoot iCloud-Related Problems
- Index
Product information
- Title: How to Do Everything: iCloud, Second Edition, 2nd Edition
- Author(s):
- Release date: January 2014
- Publisher(s): McGraw-Hill
- ISBN: 9780071825115
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