Cloud services are not just clouds

Using cloud-based services such as Dropbox, Google Drive, Evernote, Google albums, and so on, sometimes comes to the question that while these storage services can help us sync files to a variety of devices, it's just a cloud drive. It seems that we can set up ourselves, and only the storage of words seems to have a lot of alternatives.

However, if you use the above services in depth, you will find that the future of cloud services is definitely not just a storage service, "Cloud hard Drive", "Storage Space", "synchronous service" is only the basic equipment.

After storing the data, the "real cloud service" will help you compute the data in the cloud, let your stored data automatically generate more efficient use, you would have to do it to spend a lot of time, through the cloud services can be in a few seconds, a few minutes to complete, this is the real meaning of the cloud services.

1. Dropbox help you to automatically make version backup

The first good example, also can be said to be cloud service representative product Dropbox, when it synchronizes your hard disk file to the cloud, will start automatically produces these files the version backup, you later on the hard disk regardless modifies or deletes several times the file, only in 30 days, Dropbox can help you restore to any file version.

This file version of the immediate backup of the action, we ourselves on the computer to complete is very laborious. But as long as the use of Dropbox synchronization, we do not need to spend a little more effort, to achieve the effect of instant backup.

2. Google Drive to help you retrieve the document text

Another good example is Google's cloud Drive service, and Google Drive itself is an extended office system. As long as Google Drive sync hard disk files to the cloud, this time Google will help you automatically index all kinds of file files "content text" in the cloud, I just search for keywords in google Drive site, you can find the file containing the keyword text.

If I want to build my own computer hard disk to search for files in the text of the index, I have to occupy their own time and energy, computer space and efficiency, spend a lot of energy.

3. Evernote help you retrieve the text in the photo

My favorite note-taking service Evernote, while storing notes, is not just to empty a cloud to store data, but also to optimize the data.

When I save my photo notes to Evernote Cloud services, Evernote the cloud to help me set up the index of the text in the photo, so I can find some photo notes that contain some Chinese characters in the photos.

4. Google album to help you pick out high-quality photos, automatic effects, automatic indexing theme

In fact, I think the best example of cloud storage service is the "google+ album, which looks like a cloud hard drive to help you store your photos indefinitely, but there's a lot of automatic smart work behind it.

When the photos are uploaded to the Google album, will be based on the classification to help you pick out the album "the Most Brilliant photos" presented in the beginning of the album, including those who took the more successful photos, friends and relatives of the photos, so do not need to organize, you can see good finishing results.

In addition, Google albums can also automatically help you a lot of photos to create special effects, if there is a continuous photo to help you make animation, if there are more than a group photo to help you create a smiling face of the synthesis, if there is the same area of the landscape can also be synthesized panoramic photos, do not need to repair the map, you can automatically produce brilliant photos.

And even after the search is intelligent, want to search the old theme photos, input "sunset" keyword, you can find all the photos of the past, do not need to organize, rely on Google album Automatic identification technology, so that we will still find the need for photos.

Summary

Real cloud services, not just a cloud hard disk storage file, not only to help you upload download synchronization data, but more importantly, through the cloud technology "automatic", "Short time", "large data intelligent" to help you process information, to produce a more effective use of information.

Like the previous mentioned Dropbox version restore, Google Drive index text, Evernote index photos in the text, Google album automatic beautification and intelligent search. These are the key additional effects that are worth using cloud services.

Maybe we can do it on our own, but better jobs depend on cloud services to help us save time and even do things we can't do!