Open the Settings app and select iCloud. From there go down to the “Storage & Backup” button. Once you tap that you’ll see where you can enable the iCloud backup and start a manual backup.

Once you enable it and create a backup to start, you can tap on “Manage Storage” which will show you any and all device backups on your iCloud. Taping on any of those will bring you a menu where you can select individual apps that get backed up, or not.

On my iPad, I dont want to backup my pictures because I’m going to let Photo Stream do that. I also dont want to backup my comic books or my Wired magazines. I unchecked those three apps and the backup size went from 4.8GB to 873MB. That’s more like it!

Disabling images on my iPhone (for the same reasons) allowed me to go from 1.7GB to 233MB on the iPhone.

I now have two devices backing up to my iCloud and they only take around 1GB of my 5GB of storage.

I expect Apple to allow you to purchase more storage once the service actually goes live but I feel like this is the better solution either way. There are just things you dont need in the event of getting a replacement for a iCloud enabled device.

I’m in for LunaTik

Ok … how difficult is this really?

Goal: Beat iPad and AT&T

Plan A:

Make a better Tablet than iPad and charge the same for hardware ($499) and slightly more for data (Verizon/Sprint plans for Galaxy).

Plan B:

Make a slightly inferior tablet than tha iPad but charge less for hardware ($399/$299) and data (10 GB/$40).

Plan C:

Make a significantly inferior tablet than the iPad and charge significantly less for hardware ($199) and/or data.

Looks like Samsung and their partners are going with plan D:

Make a tablet that is slightly smaller and slightly less attractive and runs an unsupported tablet-OS and costs almost as much as the lowest priced iPad 3G to purchase and to use.

- b33g33

Problem seems to be they’re trying to make specific devices for specific people, while Apple makes one device. You either like the device or you don’t. So far, people like the device. Let’s see how this pans out for Samsung though, people like low entry prices and ignore contracts.

You have your choice in case styles and colors. By colors I mean you can pick black.

1. The Tethering Convenience Fee

2. The iPad Bait and Switch

My only thoughts are that maybe, just maybe, Apple has a way to rectify this before June 7th during the WWDC keynote. I mean, I cant imagine Steve Jobs being happy with this considering AT&T is the only option for people who buy one of his fancy 3G iPads.

Update: I totally missed John Gruber’s take on this, same as mine. (link)

So its for stalkers?

For me, this would be a second (third) device. I have my iPhone for walking around, I have my MacBook Pro for working at my desk and I’d have the iPad for everything in between like recipes while cooking and looking for stuff on the internet while watching TV. It would definitely be a better device to have by my nightstand if i wanted to quickly catch up with news from bed because at 1.5 lb its still light enough to carry with one hand. The laptop always seemed awkward in bed.

Then he announced the price.

I have wasted $500 on other things that I dont find nearly as useful as I would find having an iPad would be (my original MiniDisk player comes to mind.) I am, however, the fanboy. I will buy this device because I like playing with shiny new toys. Where I think this will be amazing, is in the hands of my mom.

For people like my mom, the $500 price tag and the gorgeous UI makes total sense.

My mom doesn’t really deal with computers often. Her computer was kind of acting up and she decided to get a new one, she got a netbook. Now she has a contract and a computer thats too slow to actually do anything useful. On top of that, it uses Windows XP which is not really a OS that is inviting to the user, you use it because you have to not because you want to.

60 days from now I am going to be getting a iPad in the mail. I will play with it thoroughly and then I will give it to my mom. The iPhone OS is intuitive and she will be able to get things done faster. She’ll learn to love the internet because she wont have to fight with it most of the time. She’ll be able to do e-mail without worrying about getting a virus or forgetting what the email address of her contacts are because everything syncs with the cloud. Most of her documents are on Google Docs now anyways so she can just work right on the cloud with the device and not worry about losing her USB thumbdrive or anything like that. For the longer projects, a cheap bluetooth keyboard allows her to work with iWork and really get presentations and projects done in a flash (She’s a teacher.)

Best of all, there are zero headaches. It just works. There are no configurations that can go wrong, there are no drivers she has to update, there is no way she can accidentally lose information. How do I know this? Because I’ve been using iPhone OS for 2.5 years now and the urge of moving to Android always subsides when I think of that.

I was not impressed with the iPad when I saw it because I didn’t see the possibilities for people who really just want to move on from having to deal with “computers” but cant just use their phones as their main device.

When my dad plays with my mom’s iPad I’m sure he’ll want one too. I’ll hand him the one I got to replace the one I gave to my mom, just in time for me to buy v2 sometime next year.

With a possible 10″ display and multi-touch gestures, I would love to have this device be on my coffee table. I already have a laptop there most of the time and this would be so much better. This brings me back to the problem of print. If the device is basically a $600 glorified e-reader which doesn’t even do the job right because it doesn’t have an e-ink display, then I don’t want it. I don’t read newspapers, I don’t read magazines. I am subscribed to Wired Magazine, but I mainly read it online through their RSS feed. It needs to do more, it needs to blow me away and not just show me how much I can read. Print needs to understand that while I am ok paying for access to information, eventually it will make its way out. The gatekeepers are gone and any artificial ones they put up just prove that they don’t understand and that they deserve to be irrelevant.

With this said, I am more excited about what might be included in the new iPhone OS (4.0 maybe?) and on the new iPhone model they might announce tomorrow.

If its $600 and amazing, I have the money. If it’s more or just a glorified e-reader, I’ll pass. If its subsidized and needs a mobile contract, then you can just forget I even spent any time thinking about the thing. I don’t need more bills.

This is great, except for the fact that nobody I talked to today knew that this feature existed. AT&T has spent most of their time trying to prove that you can download Luke Wilson faster on their network than on Verizon and no time at all showing you how to save money. Thanks AT&T!

I would also like to point out that if you’re paying $59.99 you could just pay an extra $10 every month for unlimited calling and just forget all about the whole ‘minutes’ non-sense.