Monday, May 14, 2012

Cloud storage and other interesting tech stuff...

   Wondering what the big deal were with cloud storage.  If you were posting information that you wanted accessible via the web in social networking venues, Facebook, Google +, Twitter, and other apps could be perfectly fine.  This would generally include up to posting photos and possibly some video.  Although if you wanted to post video, I'd suggest either Youtube or Vimeo services, but if you wanted to share something like data files for a given project application you were working on...this could include anything from .pdf files, you might use an online site like Scribed,  hosting in a social user account forum many user document files such as these, but really a site like this maybe somewhat limited in terms of merely hosting .pdf documents and nothing more.  Then it seems the use of cloud storage becomes more purposeful.  One providing as in many cases for startup user accounts (free), often times several gigabytes of free online storage (e.g., Google, UbuntuOne, and Microsoft Skydrive), but also providing you both private and public share options to stored data.  For data, generally this isn't merely restricted by file format or media type, but include a wide range of data types.  For any public access given to a given data file, you could then link public access to this via in the customary internet addressing fashion, providing link, for example, through social networking sites.  Likewise, for Amazon users and now apparently coming soon for Apple users, cloud storage, also provides the ability of being able to synchronise via cloud accounts file data for purchased items through given stores.  Why is this nice?  Well, here you hadn't need necessarily initiate any  procedure linking usb cables between storage devices to handle the task of uploading and downloading from one device to the next.  Instead your purchases are tracked account wise, and purchased items via cloud storage can be distributed to all personal devices having cloud account access.  Which means less fretting and hassle if you upgrading devices or computers.  Purchases in this case still have to be upgraded but at least, one would only have to worry about getting signed back into a new device with existing user information, and then choosing to sync when and what, or perhaps all given purchased data.

Finally if you were a writer, while you might like the no frills text document software provided in open office, Microsoft office, and what not.  If you were into heavy re edits of your work and you tended to work in groups with other writers/researchers, I might suggest Subversion, and Bazzar repositories.  While these having been generally designed around code programming, they provide nice editorial and collaborative working tools amongst many groups writing in a project oriented way.  Here these repositories provide not only oversight in terms of approving and merging collaborative work, but also allowing users to see a history of editorial work, and maintaining its history, that could be of use if an older version were liked better relative to a re written document.   

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