When the cloud comes calling

Mahananda Bohidar Updated - March 12, 2018 at 02:08 PM.

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Sometimes you are said to be juggling between work and a family or between jobs. For tech addicts, there's juggling of a different kind. You flip out your iPod when you want to listen to your favourite Adele track. Your turn to your latest Android upgraded smartphone to share that hilarious joke with your best friend.

And, at the end of the day, you probably put on your geeky glasses and power on your monochromatic Kindle to finish the last bits of that Holmes' mystery you started reading last night.

As far as media consumption is concerned we've certainly come a long way since just reading the morning paper and watching the Sunday morning

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We are becoming increasingly hungry for any kind of information, knowledge or entertainment that comes our way. But do we really need as many devices to be clued in to what goes on around the world? Or can we just turn to the cloud?

Software like iCloud or even Amazon Kindle let you access your data across platforms, as long as you are connected to the Internet. Music services like Grooveshark, SoundCloud or even Google Music (which is yet to make its debut in India) take away your Mp3 blues and stack it away in the Cloud.

More and more people are switching to Google Documents or `Documents To Go` to save themselves the hassle of worrying about which format their MS Office Word Document is saved as and whether it'll be compatible with the earlier versions. It's not just businesses but individuals who are enthusiastically opting for the cloud and this reflects in companies starting to launch everything cloud-enabled - from printers to cameras to storage devices. If they've jumped onto the bandwagon, what are you waiting for?

>mahananda@thehindu.co.in

Published on March 29, 2012 15:56