Climb the Cloud

These days you all must be listening/reading about the Cloud Storage here and there but do you often use cloud computing? I don't think so!!!! Cloud is given the name for this type of computing because clouds are every where, where ever you go in any part of the world. So this is a technology that enables you to store and compute the data on the cloud, it means you can store, retrieve and compute the data any where. 

This technology is based upon the internet because it is available in almost in every part of the world and so does clouds. You can use the internet to store the data online on cloud storage and can use the data any where you need. In this case you need not to save your data on multiple locations, carry pen drives, use external hard drives and the most important benefit of this is that your data gets protected from hard drive and window crashes which is very much common. Moreover, the replication of data also get reduced and you need not to buy many storage medias and keep safe with you. You just need to have a password and that to in your mind.

Many cloud storage services provides you free of cost data storage but a few Gigabytes only. Its simple phenomenon, the more data you need to store the more you pay but still it is one of the cheap and safe mechanism to store the data. The most popular Google what we think is just a search engine give a 15 GB drive with every email id and in spite of that, it gives you computing facility also so that you need not to install basic software on your system. You can create and edit your presentations on the way to a trip with just a smart phone or with a tablet and you need not to have MS Office installed in the device. You can read more about functionality of Google drive here. 

So guys forget the pen drives and external storage devices and switch on to cloud for better way of storage and safety of data.   

Think Different.....

This is the story of a boy named Nishant who has made his own prototype called "Automatic Electric Shock Tripper" and won the first prize for that in "Innovation Jockeys - Season 2" conducted recently in Bangalore by Accenture and sponsored by Yahoo. There were more than 5000 participants from different engineering colleges among which the 17 year boy from Sona College of Technology bagged the battle and now he is going to spend one week in U.S at the research center of Accenture. 

Now let us have a look at the innovation of Nishant - "Automatic Electric Shock Tripper". He has made a prototype to make people safe whenever there is a breakage in main electric supply lines or there is leakage of electricity. 

In this prototype the transformer will turn off the connection to the wire that got cut much before it falls or when there was heavy electricity leakage. 

There is an automated system call functionality that will shoot up a voice message to the line officials and do tell them the nature of the problem. The tripper will cost somewhere around Rs. 10,000 which is very much economical. 

This is brief about the innovation of the creative mind Nishant. Insipte of that i also want you to know something more about him as he has made more than 30 product by using electrical and information technology and has seven patents to his name and the 8th one is on its way. 

Give a Test Drive to Google Drive

Google drive is a platform for online creation, storage and sharing of files very easily. This is a wonderful development by Google and is very useful as well. It allows you to take full advantage of the gadgets you have as it is available for all platforms. You can use it online or you can download to your system or smart phone or tablet and sync with each other through your Gmail account. Many benefits of using Google Drive are as follows:

• You can create your documents, reports and presentations any where with the help of just internet. You need not to install any kind of special software for that. Your Gmail account will become your operating system and Google drive will become your computer in which already everything is installed and space storage of 5 GB is provided and that too absolutely free.
• If you want to send a large file to your frend you can easily send via Google Drive. Just upload your file to your Google Drive and share it with your friend. It is quite simple and useful.
• The most important advantage of this is that you can use it from anywhere and from any device.
• You can keep your important documents and files into drive that you may need any time as it is more secure and safe than the pen drives or portable hard disks. 
• There are around 144 applications that you can install or link with your Google drive. Some of the common applications are: PIXLR EDITOR(Just like photoshop to edit photographs), OFFICE (like word, excel, powerpoint), AUTOCAD, Graphing Calculator, Drive Tunes, PDF Mergy, Google Drawing (like paint), Drive Notepad and many more.

You can well imagine that if you will get all these things in your Gmail account only, and moreover you can access it any where and on any device, then why will you install all those things in your computer. What you need is just sign in into your Google Drive and get ready for the ultimate riding experience.

Smartly backing up and securing your contacts with Smart Phones

We all generally face problems when we lost the phone and we do not have the backup of the contacts. But with the wave of smart phones this problem is quite solved. The simple solution is that you need not to save any contacts in the phone or sim. You might be thinking that why so? This is because when ever you lost the phone the contacts are saved in either of the two memories i.e. phone or sim. But if you do not save anything to either of the memories then the threat of misuse of contacts is quite less. The simple way to back up and secure your data is keeping the contacts on the cloud. The best is to save the contacts to your Google account and sync your smart phone with your account and all the contacts will be visible from your Google account. The simple steps to backing up all the contacts to your Google account are as follows:

1. Firstly export all the current contacts in your smart phone to a single .vcf file. This is not difficult at all. All the smart phones have this facility to export all the contacts into a single file. Go to contacts in your smart phone, chose the option export all contacts to SD card. It will automatically create the single .vcf file containing all your contacts.

2. Go to your Gmail account from your smart phone or transfer the .vcf file to your computer and then login to your Gmail account. 

3. On the left corner where Gmail is written, click on the small arrow to see the contacts section. 

4. Click on the contacts to move to the contacts section and click on more button to expand the menu.

5. Click on import and give the path of the .vcf that you have exported. This will import all you contacts to your Gmail account. 

6. The next step is to sync your Gmail account to your phone and the contacts in your phone are ready form the Gmail. Whenever you add a new contact, add it to your gmail account when phone asks you where you want to save. 

Another benefit of this is that, you can sync your gmail account on your multiple devices and your contacts will be there at multiple devices without having the trouble to import and export your contacts. Whenever you lost the phone just change the password of your Gmail account, so that the contacts in your lost phone got unsync and your contacts remain safe and backed up.