The face of current computing is shifting hurriedly. For many users, the accepted carrying a laptop around with all of your programs and data files stored on it and trying to keep it syncronised with a desktop PC is rapidly passing us by. At the same time, the power essential of our equipment for most every day use is in point of fact dropping, not on the increase.
For most business users, journey away from the office and it is still easy to be in communication. Use WIFI hotspots and mobile broadband dongles for connection to the internet more or less anywhere and you can have a mobile connection to your headquarters. This is fine conventionally for sending and receiving emails, but what as regards accessing files and software you ordinarily have available on your office PC?
The answer here is to use a service such as gotomypc.com. You may have seen the advert. Leave your office or home machine switched on, get an internet connection and you can access everything on that computer from anyplace in the world. It is truly the same as shipping that computer and its hard disk with you.
But the difficulty here is that the computer must be switched on at all times. What if a cleaner pulls the plug, or you are wanting to connect to a home based machine that perhaps you do not want to leave running for two weeks whilst you are on holiday. The machine might even halt whilst you are gone or possibly you without warning need to grab a file from the machine, which you did not leave on?
I was reading a journalist's view of this problem yesterday and it makes sense. Simply, you centralise technology and resources. You then sign into a bank of equipment form any internet connection, do your work and then save it in your own file space. The central technique looks after backups and data safety measures. As upgrades to the software come along they can be applied routinely by the provider, giving you protected computing on the newest technology.
It sounds far fetched. But at the same time as I was reading the newspaper editorial my daughter was using a laptop and a mobile broadband connection to hook up back from our holiday apartment in Spain to her school in the UK to look at her emails on the school’s central computer system. Within this system, known as Frog, she can create powerpoint presentations and more, even though the machine she is using does not have this software.
My experiences from her updating Powerpoint show without a doubt that this is not yet the response for everyone. Instead of effortless updates to the screen which are processed quickly, the entire screen is passed down the internet connection. So Powerpoint slides grow to be painfully slow to update and watch. People wishing to play games on the internet are not yet going to find this solution good. But for those needing to deal with and maintain data files, word documents etc will be able to advantage from becoming more mobile on their computers.
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Written by Keith Lunt, owner of janric.co.uk for website design Merseyside .
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