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hey everyone I'm Sharon Vaknin for cnet.com steve jobs recently announced apple's new service at the worldwide developers conference in San Francisco it's called iCloud and it finally lets you wirelessly sync your music books and apps across all your devices the full version of iCloud won't be available until fall but you can start using some of these features right now the whole point of iCloud is that music and other media you purchase on one I device can be automatically downloaded onto all your other devices as long as they're using the same iTunes account to get started using iCloud you'll need to set it up on each device you want to keep synced so gather up all your idevices like your iPhone iPad or iPod Touch first go to settings then store here you can set your device to automatically download new music books and apps you downloaded onto other Apple devices and Mac or PC apples letting you connect with up to 10 devices just switch the different content categories to on and automatic downloading will be enabled if you're on an iphone or ipad with a limited data plan I suggest leaving the option to use cellular data off because if you turn this option on automatic downloads will be counted against your data plan if you leave this option off automatic downloading will then only work when you're connected to Wi-Fi now change the itunes settings on your computer iCloud requires itunes 10.3 or later and you can download it by going to apple com / iTunes once you have it go to preferences then store here you have the same options as your idevices and you can check the items you want to keep synced so now that I have these settings enabled if I download a song in itunes it'll also start downloading on my iPhone or if I download a song on my iPad it'll be added to my library on my computer but if you're like me you don't have a lot of storage space left on your device for my iPhone I left automatic downloading off but since my computer has lots of storage I kept automatic downloading on for everything on my iPhone I'll manually download new content to do this go to iTunes then purchased you'll see a list of all the songs you bought on any device to download them just hit the cloud download button you can also view songs you purchased but haven't put on your device by going to the tab on the right the same goes for books and apps for books open I books and head to store then purchased for apps go to the App Store then updates then purchased except on the iPad where purchased gets its own button to manage your content in itunes go to the iTunes Store then purchased in the right sidebar in this screen you can download previously purchased items at no extra cost for now I cloud only supports music books and apps but Steve Jobs explained that the rest of the features like calendar mail and photos syncing will come in the fall and will get you caught up with those features when they arrive for cnet.com I'm Sharon Vaknin and i'll see you on the interwebs