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iCloud: What you need to know. Introduced at the company’s annual Worldwide Developers Conference, Apple’s iCloud sync service has the potential to help millions of users keep their information ubiquitous among all their devices.

iCloud: What you need to know

But what exactly is iCloud? How does it compare to MobileMe? How much will it cost? We answer these questions—and many more—below, split by section. Want to skip to a specific section? General iCloud questions What is iCloud? In short, iCloud is a catchall phrase that covers Apple’s entire suite of wireless sync and backup services, which aim to keep your devices—both iOS, and desktop computers running OS X Lion, Windows Vista, or Windows 7—on the same page, no matter which one you’re using at any given moment. Why is Apple doing this? When Steve Jobs spoke about iCloud, he said that Apple was going to demote the computer to be “just another device.” Isn’t that what MobileMe does? What does this mean for MobileMe? MobileMe will be going the way of the dodo.

What does iCloud offer? You do! Flash, Silverlight and Word on your iPad with Nexus. Update: Nexus Installfree has recently been acquired by Watchdox and the service has been taken offline.

Flash, Silverlight and Word on your iPad with Nexus.

They will be integrated in Watchdox’s file sharing and collaborating services. This will become available again in 2013. * update 10-04-2012: you can now also log in with Google and Skydrive. One of the questions I am asked the most by schools who are looking to employ the iPad is, “is the not having flash an issue”. My standard answer is, “no.” I’ve missed it because our school website’s main web page uses flash. Granted I am a language teacher and from my understanding Flash, Java, and Silverlight are mostly used for the Beta subjects. So if you really cannot do without. Go to Log in with Dropbox* and fill in your dropbox username and password. You will then be in Nexus. Nexus comes with a 60 day trial of the Microsoft Office Suite. So now let’s visit some Flash and Silverlight websites. Tap on Storage at the bottom of your screen. Tap on the + sign at the top and then tap on “new url”

A Simple Way for Teachers to Transform Files to iPad. 50 really useful iPad 2 tips and tricks. An absolute gem of an article by John Brandon and Graham Barlow from MacLife on 30th March over at TechRadar.

50 really useful iPad 2 tips and tricks

This is going to become my iPad manual from here on in. Customised iPads for all iPad 2 tips and original iPad tips - get 'em here! With great new features like two video cameras, a faster processor and a thinner design, the iPad 2 is the world's best tablet device. iPad 2 review It's also fully capable of running the latest version of Apple's iOS operating system and great apps like iMovie and GarageBand. 1.

iOS now supports folders. 2. Double-clicking the Home button shows you all the apps that are running on your iPad in a bar along the bottom of the screen. 3. The internet got mightily upset when Orientation Lock was replaced with Mute on the iPad during the last iOS update. 4. If you're carrying around sensitive data, you can now enable a feature that'll erase all the data on the device if someone inputs the incorrect passcode 10 times. How to Activate Text-to-Speech on iOS [Quicktip] We’ve come a long way from reading from print sources.

How to Activate Text-to-Speech on iOS [Quicktip]

No longer are we confined to reading magazines, newspapers and books that we must first get from a store. Smartphones and tablets now allow us to read materials straight from a website or app, in the comforts of our own home or at the office. We can now read updated materials on-the-go every day without fail. But there is one more thing that our electronic reading supplements can do better than its printed counterparts. Thanks to the new iOS update, you can activate the ‘Text-to-Speech’ function to let your iOS read out a highlighted article. Recommended Reading: Apple’s iOS6: 9 New Features You Should Know Activate Text-to-Speech From your iOS device, go to the Settings page, select General > Accessibility.

It doesn’t only work for websites, it also works for all your documents on your iOS devices. Conclusion.