I was wanting to know what everones opinion was on ICloud and Iphone 5s. I bought my first Iphone today. I've always had an Ipod and itunes. I have all my music backed up on zip drives and CD's. Has anybody had any bad experiences with the ICloud? Also I wanted to know if I should combine my Apple ID with my Itunes account...by using the same Id and password. I was going to use the cloud for my phone but not for my computer and Ipod. I wanted to use the Cloud for backing up my contacts only. I didn't want all my stuff on my computer on the cloud... personal pics, music, etc. Any thoughts??????

I also have alot of bootleg music that i didn't think would be good to put in the Cloud? Has anybody put all of their bootlegs in the ICloud?

Also what are some Good Apps and Games for Iphone? What's free and what's not?

I have ever used it. Probably because I never knew what it was for!

My kids who have iPods share same iTunes account with me (so they just have to buy each game once and I control what they download) and THEY use cloud. It took the 3 of them about 5 minutes to fill up my allocated cloud storage limit lol.
It also meant their photos turn up in my "albums".

This is how I know one of them took a picture of his own bum!



Have since switched cloud right off for all of us.

jaimestarr79 said:

I also have alot of bootleg music that i didn't think would be good to put in the Cloud? Has anybody put all of their bootlegs in the ICloud?

Seriously say, NO to the the cloud.

Storage in the Cloud, Kept at Home

Then you can listen to all of your bootleg stuff and everything else instead of trusting some complicit computer company who gives NSA your data for the asking. And... save yourself some money.

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ZombieKitten said:

I have ever used it. Probably because I never knew what it was for! My kids who have iPods share same iTunes account with me (so they just have to buy each game once and I control what they download) and THEY use cloud. It took the 3 of them about 5 minutes to fill up my allocated cloud storage limit lol. It also meant their photos turn up in my "albums". This is how I know one of them took a picture of his own bum! Have since switched cloud right off for all of us.

sounds like a cool kid. yeah, its best to switch that off, somethings just can't be easily explained.

jaimestarr79 said:

Also what are some Good Apps and Games for Iphone? What's free and what's not?

If you go into iTunes on your computer... big picture to look at. Apples have organized their apps depending if they are free or paid. I also find their recommendation on what good to be spot on. I'd also recommend to think of some of the things you are interested in and see if they have an app that fits your interest.

There are some pretty cool apps for photograhp. I like Camera Noir, ColorSplash, Paint Over... I think they are all pay for apps. I can't remember sometimes paid apps become free apps.

I like Pandora (choice free & paid sub) Tunein Radio, 8Tracks, WBGO-FM (New Orleans Station), Twitter music, and an app called Shazam, that can id a song when it hears it play on the radio, tv.

I download an app called Christams Music Radio for the holidays. I download Twitter's music app.

There's an app that allows you to EQ you music on your iphone and Tunein Music. To EQ Tunein Music App you have to pay an extra buck and a couple of cents. So purchase the one with EQ / Tunein Music.

There's this cool app called Traktor Dj, I think its still free. Correction its not anymore. You can mix songs save and download them to your computer. Another app called the Groove to organized my music on my iPod/Phone. The have this neat app called Paper Piano,( is cost something) were printout a sheet of the piano keys, lay your iphone on the paper, and when you touch the keys on the paper it plays the keys you press.

I have an app called Gasbuddy that give you the prices of all the gas staions in your area.

Games I like, Scrabble, a puzzle call "The Room", 8-ball pool, Stormraidors, and of course Plant of the Zombies.

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Cloud storage just seems to cost too much. They offer this teensy amount for free that u can't do anything with...then charge u an arm and a leg for any amount that's useful. Of clouds were free, I'd be 'bout it 'bout it. A terabyte hard drive is less than $100 bus...but they wanna charge like $10/gig/mo....Ridiculous.

BobGeorge909 said:

Cloud storage just seems to cost too much. They offer this teensy amount for free that u can't do anything with...then charge u an arm and a leg for any amount that's useful. Of clouds were free, I'd be 'bout it 'bout it. A terabyte hard drive is less than $100 bus...but they wanna charge like $10/gig/mo....Ridiculous.

I was going to do a thread about the ways you can get around all the nickle and dimming that's becoming the norm for data processing, the cloud, the net, phone services/text messaging and even cable.

Its best if you pay for a device once instead of paying for a monthly or yearly subscription.... for many things, not all. A lot of people think these devices are complected to step up but they aren't.

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charlotte that's funny about the bum pics. Thanks everyone for your reponses! I would of respondedsooner but I have been having trouble logging on to this site for some reason. I get getting long running script errors. anybody else ever have these issues logging on to this site?