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I am a teacher with a school district that is purly IBM but my heart and home is MAC.
Alas, I have spent a lot of money on Parallels for MAC (our desktop is MAC 27' 2011) and Microsoft office for MAC and would like to use iCloud but am shy with all the comments about loosing documents... I do most of my work on my MacBook Air.
any suggestions?
MacBook Air, iOS 5.1.1, OS Lion on MacBook Air
Kitty
My data mangement plan for my work is to iCloud to sync my calendars, contacts, reminders, notes etc. between my Mac, iPhone etc. if you put a MS document through iCloud it is saved as an iworks document.
I use MS Skydrive to manage all of my Office documents - it keeps them intact and I can move between my Mac, PC and even my iPhone. Dropbox and Google drive have similar capabilities. I have Windows 8 on my PC.
Cheers
Kitty
My data mangement plan for my work is to iCloud to sync my calendars, contacts, reminders, notes etc. between my Mac, iPhone etc. if you put a MS document through iCloud it is saved as an iworks document.
I use MS Skydrive to manage all of my Office documents - it keeps them intact and I can move between my Mac, PC and even my iPhone. Dropbox and Google drive have similar capabilities. I have Windows 8 on my PC.
Cheers
I am going to check it out. I'm embarrassed I didn't know about it.
I am grateful for your help.
Happy New Year! Slan
Use DropBox or Sugarsync to do what you want.
iCloud is awsome! But do not trust it. Use it as a temporary spot for your documents and as soon as you can save it to a file or server. I would look at using Pages - I create all my documents with that. I would also look at buying Word for Mac at a later time. Now I understand you have paralells.. but chances are you will seldom use that unless the software to access the school is not web based. I would also suggest using DropBox (in addition to iCloud) or carry a usb thumb drive with you back and forth (may be better). You have to becareful, the computers at your school probably have policy and procedures for installing apps or sites you can visit.
Carlo TD wrote:
iCloud is awsome! But do not trust it.
???
That is often the result when users make unsupported changes to the OSX system, it is not confined to iCloud, but mainly to uninformed 'tinkerers'
I am checking out both this morning. Thanks!!!
Hi Kitty
There are a number of comparisosn of the various cloud services. Here is one that has some useful comparisons to get you started.
http://blog.laptopmag.com/cloud-services-compared-google-drive-vs-dropbox-skydri ve-and-icloud
HI Dartie's Dad,
This article has been so helpful. I have referred to it a few times. Thank you for posting it. I am sharing it with my friends who are having a few issues too. We are all teachers of Urban High School stuents with storage issues. We will pass the information on. Kitty
iwork on iCloud safe for word.docx?
