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Sams Teach Yourself iCloud in 10 Minutes offers straightforward, practical information designed to get you up and running quickly and easily. By working through its 10-minute lessons, you’ll learn everything you need to know to effectively use Apple’s iCloud online services. Each compact lesson zeroes in on a specific aspect of iCloud, explained through concise and informative descriptions along with accurate and easy to follow step-by-step instructions. You’ll quickly become comfortable performing the most important iCloud tasks to make the most of what iCloud offers every day!
Tips point out shortcuts and solutions
Cautions help you avoid common pitfalls
Notes provide additional information
10 minutes is all you need to learn how to…
- Obtain an iCloud account and use your own iCloud website.
- Configure iCloud services on iPhones, iPads, iPods, Macs, and Windows PCs.
- Use iCloud with your iTunes music, apps, and books to ensure you have great content on all your devices!
- Take advantage of iTunes Match to stream your iTunes music wherever you are.
- Use Photo Stream for instant access to photos you take with an iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad on all your other mobile devices and computers.
- Have easy access to the same document files on iOS devices and computers so that you can efficiently work whenever and wherever you need to.
- Use iCloud’s great email, calendar, contact, and other tools to automatically have the same information on all your devices.
- Locate your devices, secure them if they aren’t under your control, and protect your data with online backups.
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About the Author
Brad Miser has written extensively about technology, with his favorite topics being Apple’s amazing “i” technology, including iPods, iPhones, and now iCloud. Books Brad has written include Sams Teach Yourself Mac OS X in 10 Minutes; Sams Teach Yourself iTunes 10 in 10 Minutes; My iPod touch, 3rd Ed; My iPhone, 5th Ed; Absolute Beginner’s Guide to Homeschooling; and MacBook Pro Portable Genius, 3rd Ed. He has also been an author, development editor, or technical editor on more than 50 other titles.
Brad is or has been a sales support specialist, the director of product and customer services, and the manager of education and support services for several software development companies. Previously, he was the lead proposal specialist for an aircraft engine manufacturer, a development editor for a computer book publisher, and a civilian aviation test officer/engineer for the U.S. Army. Brad holds a Bachelor of Science degree in mechanical engineering from California Polytechnic State University at San Luis Obispo and has received advanced education in maintainability engineering, business, and other topics.
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Less nebulous than the other books about Apple's confusing, time-robbing Cloud
27 April 2012
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
The author is not so insensitive as to make explicit reference to the potential problems of the "iCloud." But unlike other books about Apple's curious (and confounding) Cloud, he goes further than simply "explaining" the invention or praising its alleged benefits. He gets to the point, showing you how to find step 1 and proceed from there to step 2. (I did not get this help from a currently more popular book in Amazon's ratings.) In fact, the author of "ICloud in 10 Minutes" provided information that "enabled" me (as suggested by the book's parenthetical subtitle) to solve a couple of especially sticky problems.
Admittedly, no Apple innovation has given me as much trouble as Apple's "unique" Cloud. It's led to ridiculously exponential multiplication of my music files, along with black marks by all of the nascent, or "imaginary," tunes in my iTunes library, making me search repeatedly for the "real" tune (and mostly when time is of the essence). It's glutted my computer's "start-up disc" (Apple's lingo for hard drive) and filled up my external hard drives. It's denied me the right to play my own recordings on an iPod because I have selected / purchased Apple's "Match Service." It's made management of three iPod Touches with three Apple I.D.s a seemingly unsolvable nightmare (Apple doesn't permit you to extinguish an I.D., though they're considerate enough to issue periodic cryptic warnings with dire implications. Apple even sends notes about how many days you have left before you can associate a device with a different account (I've missed every day thus far).
Most of these books are good at explaining the advantages, conveniences, creative and cool features that are already a familiar part of the Apple Cloud hype. But to realize these benefits, one must "learn" the intricacies of the Cloud, a lesson which "Sam" takes to heart, keeping extraneous business to a minimum and providing the information that will empower the reader to put up a respectable if not victorious fight. (As Oscar Wilde and Faulkner both observed, the things most worth teaching, can't be taught: they must be learned.) In other words, only you can only teach yourself how to master the iCloud--though it doesn't hurt to have a savvy guide like Sam close by--if only to provide a bit of handholding, encouragement, and tips along the way.
Just don't be too surprised if Amazon's rather than Apple's Cloud ultimately beckons as the more attractive (and practical) alternative among the various cumuli. Or, for that matter, wouldn't you rather revisit that neglected 30-year-old collection of vinyl treasures? (I can attest that Apple's iCloud has the potential to transform your neighborhood's most prominent Geek into a grumpy old Luddite.)
Admittedly, no Apple innovation has given me as much trouble as Apple's "unique" Cloud. It's led to ridiculously exponential multiplication of my music files, along with black marks by all of the nascent, or "imaginary," tunes in my iTunes library, making me search repeatedly for the "real" tune (and mostly when time is of the essence). It's glutted my computer's "start-up disc" (Apple's lingo for hard drive) and filled up my external hard drives. It's denied me the right to play my own recordings on an iPod because I have selected / purchased Apple's "Match Service." It's made management of three iPod Touches with three Apple I.D.s a seemingly unsolvable nightmare (Apple doesn't permit you to extinguish an I.D., though they're considerate enough to issue periodic cryptic warnings with dire implications. Apple even sends notes about how many days you have left before you can associate a device with a different account (I've missed every day thus far).
Most of these books are good at explaining the advantages, conveniences, creative and cool features that are already a familiar part of the Apple Cloud hype. But to realize these benefits, one must "learn" the intricacies of the Cloud, a lesson which "Sam" takes to heart, keeping extraneous business to a minimum and providing the information that will empower the reader to put up a respectable if not victorious fight. (As Oscar Wilde and Faulkner both observed, the things most worth teaching, can't be taught: they must be learned.) In other words, only you can only teach yourself how to master the iCloud--though it doesn't hurt to have a savvy guide like Sam close by--if only to provide a bit of handholding, encouragement, and tips along the way.
Just don't be too surprised if Amazon's rather than Apple's Cloud ultimately beckons as the more attractive (and practical) alternative among the various cumuli. Or, for that matter, wouldn't you rather revisit that neglected 30-year-old collection of vinyl treasures? (I can attest that Apple's iCloud has the potential to transform your neighborhood's most prominent Geek into a grumpy old Luddite.)
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Learning and using iCloud
26 Mar 2012
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
Just started reading this nice little book. It seems to have all the answers for how to manage and use iCloud. Good illustrations and easy to follow instructions.
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