Your iPad® at Work, Second Edition

9. Syncing Your iPad via iTunes or iCloud

In This Chapter

• Sync your iPad with your computer using iTunes Sync

• Sync your iPad with your computer using iTunes Wireless Sync

• Take advantage of iCloud for backing up and syncing files and data on your iPad

Thanks to the iOS 5.1 operating system, your iPad is designed to work seamlessly with Apple’s online-based iCloud service, enabling you to maintain a backup of your tablet wirelessly, plus sync app-specific files and data with both iCloud and your Mac(s) and other iOS devices that are linked to the same iCloud account.

Apps such as Contacts, Calendar, Music, iBooks, Safari, Photos, Reminders, Notes, iTunes, Videos, Pages, Numbers, Keynote, and iPhoto, for example, all have iCloud functionality ...