Optimize iCloud for iPhone in 6 Simple Steps. Longtime Apple iPhone devotees and newly minted iPhone 4S owners alike just got a new operating system, iOS 5, and one of its major new components is iCloud, an online backup and syncing service.
That means all the apps, phone numbers, messages, calendar events, and other data stored on your iPhone can be saved and backed up to Apple's remote servers rather than your local computer. The same goes for data from your other Apple devices running iOS 5, like the iPad and iPad 2, iPod touch (third and fourth generation), as well as computers running Mac OS X Lion, such as iMacs. If you own an Apple device, you definitely want to take advantage of iCloud. It has several incredible features, including the ability to track down a lost or stolen device (Find My iPhone, Find My Mac). But when I set up iCloud on my iPhone, I found one major catch: I got 5GB of back-up storage space free, and out of the gate, I was already using 4.8GB! Turn Any MP3 into an iPhone Ringtone. Back when I was a Palm Centro owner, I used the excellent freeware app MiniTones to turn Brendan Benson's "Spit It Out" into my ringtone.
But when I upgraded to an iPhone, I discovered that iTunes charges 99 cents for ringtones--even if you already own the song. My cheapskate nature doesn't allow for that. (It's not the money, it's the principle of the thing.) So I decided to "roll my own" iPhone ringtone, which turned out to be a fairly easy process. iCloud. Mobility Web Messaging.