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CLOUD SERVICES

The two most well-known cloud services are probably your iMac at your office, your iPad at home, and your iPod Touch
Dropbox and iCloud. Dropbox started as a file storage and in your kitchen. iCloud works with Apple devices, and with both
sharing service, and iCloud is what keeps Apple computers and Mac and PC computers.
devices synced, as well as offering storage for photos, files and iCloud Photo Library, part of Apple’s iCloud service, manages
music. All cloud services require an account with a username and photos that you take with iPhones or iPads. If enabled, every
password, for security. Depending on the amount of space your photo you take automatically appears on your computer or other
files use on the cloud, paid storage upgrades are available. devices, by pushing the photos from your iPhone to the other
By using the Dropbox website, or the Dropbox App on a devices. iCloud Photo Sharing allows sharing large albums with
computer, tablet or smartphone, you can easily share files via others via a secure website. If you have an Apple TV, you can even
email to friends, family and others. Dropbox is a convenient share your photos from your iCloud Library on the big screen of
way to share dozens of photos, whereas you would be unable to your HDTV.
email a large amount of high-resolution photos without sending For business owners, professionals and students, what could
multiple messages with a few files attached to each. be better than having your documents with you all the time?
You can easy drag a few hundred photos into your Dropbox Apple’s iWork apps like Pages, Keynote, and Numbers all work
folder, and simply click a share button to send a link to those seamlessly and are available via the web at icloud.com, and you
photos. Dropbox can also easily share video and document files. can even open and edit Microsoft Office documents by logging
Apple’s iCloud is designed to automatically and securely unite into your iCloud.com account.
all of your content – music, photos, files, apps, calendars, contacts, Whether you know it or not, you are likely using some
bookmarks, notes and reminders. If you are at lunch with a friend form of cloud computing already, and it is services like this that
and they give you their new email address that you enter into incorporate technology into our daily lives. Make sure you try to
your iPhone, within minutes it will automatically update on take advantage of all that technology has to offer!

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