Tasting flavors of chocolates in my life box: Cloud Computing environments

Hi friends,
Today I am going to talk about Cloud Computing, the upcoming platform for web computing which is getting overwhelming response and is considered as the tomorrows world of all the technologies.

So here is a brief about the environments in existence currently which are free and anyone can use them.

The cloud computing environments that are freely available are as follows:

www.icloud.com

This service is almost an operating system, runs in a browser. Can be used as a personal desktop system situated on a cloud and can beaccesed from anywhere in the world.

Provides everything that your desktop system can. Allows to create word docs, save it on a cloud, etc. Also allows to create an email account over the cloud. The best place to create your mp3 playlist online and listen to your faviorite songs from anywhere in the world. Allows you to share photos, videos on youtube, metacafe.

Other similar applications worth considering are eyeos.org, and www.cloudo.com

www.zoho.com

Its similar to that of its counterpart by google, and that is nothing but google docs. Yes, its Its really a step further to google docs. At present the online suite boasts of over 20 applications including mail, word processor, spreadsheets and web conferancing. You can sign up for a free account at site allows to access enttry-level functionallities, but one can easily upgrade to professional edition or a business edition as per your wish with monthly chanrges of $5 and $9 respectively.

Other options to try are http://peepel.com, www.live-documents.com, and www.thinkfree.com.

www.sumopaint.com

Its and internet basaed free photo editor. Its features set is as good as a paid software complaint to it like photoshop.

Also check for www.picnik.com, www.aviary.com.

www.cloudantivirus.com

Yes, its an antivirus which is offered as a SaaS by cloud computing a real product of Panda Cloud Antivirus. It is a full fledged antivirus software that you need on your desktop, but yes it needs internet to be able to scan your system for any of the vulnerabilities into yopur system.