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"The new version of Apple's mobile platform iOS 5 is due to arrive Wednesday, and all the pieces are slowly falling into place ahead of the launch. \nFirst, Apple released a new version of iTunes - 10.5 - and now it opened the doors of the iCloud site, where customers will be able to sign up for the service that seamlessly backs up your data to the cloud. \nTo be able to start using iCloud, you need the latest version of Mac OS X Lion or iOS 5, neither of which has officially been released yet. \nIt's a bit of a catch-22 situation: If you try to sign into the iCloud site (you need your Apple ID and password), you'll be greeted with the following message: \"To set up iCloud, go to iOS 5 Settings or OS X Lion System Preferences.\" And most users can't do that since they can't install the latest versions of iOS and Lion just yet.\nStill, now you at least know where to go when that iOS 5 update starts rolling out to users. \n\n\niTunes in the Cloud\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPurchased Button\n\nIn the iTunes app in iOS 4, a new \"Purchased\" button now appears on the bottom of the application.\nYou can choose to see all music or just the songs/albums not on your current device.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRecent Purchases\nIn addition to browsing alphabetically, you can see the most recent 50 items purchased from iTunes.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nArtist View\n\nSelecting an artist name will bring up a listing of every album or partial album you have from that artist.\niTunes includes music videos as well as songs in the mix, scrolling below the album section will show music videos.\n.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDownload Screen\nThe download screen for an album gives the user the opportunity to download individual songs or the entire album in one action.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPurchased Section in iTunes\nThe iTunes 10.3 and 10.5 betas have a new feature in the iTunes Store sidebar, \"Purchases.\"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAlbum View\nJust like in iOS, users can download individual tracks or full albums at the press of a button.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAlbum View, Partially Downloaded\n\nA nice touch is that iTunes recognizes if you already have some of the items from an album in your iTunes library.\nIn my case, I because I downloaded some of the pre-order tracks for this album on a different computer, only those tracks will be downloaded.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nApp Purchases and Downloads\nJust like music and books, users can browse their app purchases and past downloads by device type, name or download date.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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