Find out how to set up your new iPad as a veteran or first-time iDevice owner. Then get our advice on the best apps and tricks for optimizing your new tablet.

How to Set Up an iPad to Sync With iTunes in Windows 7. When you synchronize your iPad with your Windows 7 computer, content is shared between the PC and the device.

That’s weird, because one almost certainly has not been set up on your computer already. Select “Set up as a new iPad” and continue. Here’s where you have to start making some decisions.

Congratulations, proud owner of a new iPad! You no doubt want to get started swiping, tapping, consuming, and creating whatever your heart desires, es ...

Set Up as New iPad/iPhone: This is where you would go to sign up for an Apple ID for the first time, or if you want, just skip the whole sign-in process (you can always sign up later).

Looking to get started with iCloud? We explain how to set up iCloud on an iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Apple TV and Mac, and even on a Windows PC ...

You can easily access all of these things from your iPad with a set of simple-to-use apps, and where those don’t work, you can actually control your computer—mouse and all—from your iPad.

Around that same time, I attempted to set up an iPad for coding. I failed miserably. I love using the iPad for writing and other creative work. It’s super portable, has great battery life, an ...