Just think about all the possible ways to take digital photos, especially if you have an iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch. You might have a digital camera, too. Luckily, iCloud’s Photo Stream feature ensures that you always have a copy of all your pictures on all your iOS devices and on your computer. Now you don’t have to be embarrassed when you want you pull out your iPad to show the girls in the book club a picture of your new niece, only to remember you actually took the photo with your iPod Touch, which is sitting at home.

With Photo Stream in action, iCloud stores the last 1,000 pictures you’ve taken for 30 days, which should give you plenty of time to sync your pics across all your devices and, most importantly, to your desktop computer, which serves as the archive for your pics—while iCloud holds only your last thousand shots up in the sky, all your pictures are permanently stored on your Windows PC or Mac, which probably has a bit more storage space than your iPad.