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Saturday, April 9, 2011

File Format Conversion resources

We all use various types of file format be it audio, text or video for our day to day computer operation. Sometimes we have convert the file type from one type to another.
This can be done by downloading various software (free and paid) from internet and also there are a few websites that give services for online file conversion. Some of the top resourceful sites in this category are given below for file conversion.

1. ZamZar: A good site for online file conversion. it converts file from many format and generally send the email with attachment of the convereted file.

2. Mediaconverter: A very good video converter.

3. Freepdfconvert: Online PDF Converter.

4. Vixy: Online video converter.

Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Cloud Computing

For several years, cloud computing becomes a trend and happening thing in Techno land. We all are using various cloud services though we might not actually know it. The cloud refers to networked computers that instead of using single platform, use distributed cluster and often virtual servers.This is not limited to certain location as it uses various computers from different locations.Cloud also have specialized data centers that hosts hundreds of servers, clustering to a mega or giant data center.

Cloud is very useful for end users in this age of virtual computing. Massive data storage to the cloud is very cheap and often free and it also comes with strong data security protection. Also clients can share their resources (Audio, Video, Data, Image) with anyone very easily.

Some of the top useful free cloud storage sites are: Amazon Cloud (5 GB Free), Skydrive (Login by windows live account and 25 GB Free), CX.com, Cludo.com etc.

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