After listening to my classmate present on cloud computing I have been doing a little research. While researching I found that there are cloud based apps for iPads. When I first heard about cloud computing I just thought of it as people using a server to share files. I have come to realize that is more than that. Some applications include :
Google Docs (http://docs.google.com) and Microsoft’s Office Web Apps (http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/web-apps) are the two front-runners in the cloud-based office suite arena, and both offer a strong set of tools for creating everything that most people need, including word processing files, spreadsheets, and presentations.
ILovePDF (http://www.ilovepdf.com) lets you perform some advanced functions with PDF files, including merging PDFs and splitting an existing PDF into multiple files.
Google’s cloud-based Calendar (www.google.com/calendar) may be one of the handiest cloud apps going, primarily because of how useful it can be in helping both individuals and groups stay organised. The interface is as you’d expect: a calendar that can be shown in day, week, or month, four-day, or agenda mode. To schedule an event, meeting, or reminder, just click a cell, provide a title, and optionally add details.
Adobe’s Photoshop Express (http://www.photoshop.com/tools) is another capable cloud—based image editor. It offers some advanced tools — such as white balance adjustments, soft focus, and tinting controls — that Picnic does not, and its interface will be familiar to users of Adobe’s image browsing applications such as Lightroom.
With theses two powerful technology advancements, we are bound to be actually computing from a real cloud soon!
Source: "The Best Cloud-based Apps", The Hindu
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