iCloud confusion

You can only fully sync one iCloud account with one user account. You can add a second iCloud account in Mail, Contacts and Calendars but only for email. In order to use a second iCloud account you would need to have separate logins.

Also, is it possible to have non purchased music in the cloud (music taken from a cd, that is already in my library).

Yes: iTunes Match will do this: it's independent of iCloud and will cost you £24.99 a year.

http://www.apple.com/itunes/itunes-match/

1) Yes, but you'll need seperate user accounts on the Mac to allow syncing of your seperate iCloud account data because you can't be logged in to two seperate iCloud accounts at the same time in the same User account. Switching between iCloud accounts in the same User account would remove th data each time,

2) if you are referring to iTunes Match, then yes.

Welcome to the Apple Community.

You can't fully use two iCloud accounts on a single user account.

You could create a second user account or you could add a secondary iCloud account in the single user, however with the later set up, you would each be able to see each others mail, calendars etc and only the primary account could make use of photostream.

Yes, iTunes match will store your non purchased (iTunes) content in the cloud.

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You can share your iPhoto Library in two ways: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1198 or http://support.apple.com/kb/PH2435

No: if both phones are signed into the same iCloud account then they and anything else signed into that account will all see the same photos. If the phones are signed into separate iCloud accounts then only the other Macs/devices signed into the same iCloud as each phone will see its photos.

You can select which data types you want to use on Macs and on iPhones.

Good question and I honestly don't know the answer. Until photostream, yes it was possible for two user accounts to share an iPhoto library, I guess it still is, however I wouldn't know how photostream would fit into that, I'm thinking it might become a bit of a mess. That might be better asked over at the iPhoto community.

Whatever you add to iCloud, you need to ask, "how secure is it". I expressed my question thus on my Facebook page "As I understand it, Apple's iCloud storage is actually subject to US law and particularly to what is called the "Patriot Act". So the US government can require Apple to provide access to iCloud data? Sorry Apple, I am a Brit, so you can keep Lion, Mountain Lion, Mountie Loins, Cat Litter and all OS successors' access to iCloud for native American users... or did I mean NAIVE American users? Apple already messed up my web storage and iWeb facility and overcomplicated my life in ways only Microsoft has hitherto managed..... Enough!"

I have had Apple computers for many years and admired the intuitive way access and power was provided and the superlative engineering of the product. My feeling now is one of sadness that an old and valued friend has parted company with me.....

: http://www.techworld.com/business-it-hub/management-briefing/3358580/five-secrets-your-cloud-provider-wont-tell-you-about-multi-tenancy/?utm_source=1263624&utm_medium=80349850&utm_content=0&utm_campaign=Intel_Techworld

How ironic that you posted a question to your Facebook page, which is owned by another US company with more privacy issues than Apple, Google and Microsoft put together.

If you're so against American computer companies storing your data, you'd better get that Sinclair Spectrum out of the loft and remove yourself from the Internet pronto.

Not ironic at all, Julian. I put nothing on Facebook that is particularly sensitive,and I have nothing against American companies - just American laws like the Patriot Act bearing down on foreign nationals (that would be imperiallism, wouldn't it?). Now I am not a computer whizz, so I am talking about "fears" for the most part, and if there is anything in Facebook I should fear, I do hope you will let me know...... On the general question of the direction Apple are taking, don't you agree that first mobileme and then iCloud departed from the intuitive simplicity for which they were justly famed and which kept me buying Macs for more than 20 years? Apple was an American company I trusted, admired and venerated, incidentally.

I put nothing on Facebook that is particularly sensitive

And neither should you on any other companies servers that you don't have the control you want over. Every company that does business in a country is bound by the laws of that country - whether or not you happen to agree with another countries laws. If you don't like, don't use. Facebook is collecting personal data about you all the time, from every website with a 'Like' button and every post you make on your Wall - whether you realise it or not. What are they going to do with all this data on 800 million people?

don't you agree that first mobileme and then iCloud departed from the intuitive simplicity for which they were justly famed

Considering MobileMe and iCloud evolved from iTools and .mac, which all have features the predecessors didn't you can't directly compare them. I find the simplicity of syncing all my contacts, calendars, bookmarks, notes, email etc between all my iOS devices and computers unsurpassed. I simply could not have done it as simply, if at all, 5 years ago.