With a Bit of Planning, Keep the Cloud With You Always — Even Offline

Grazed from NYTimes. Author: Molly Wood.

Cloud computing may seem incompatible with being offline, but there are ways to live in the cloud even when you don’t have an Internet connection. The most common situation occurs when you are actually in the clouds — stuck on a plane with no Wi-Fi, or, more likely, Wi-Fi so slow it might as well be nonexistent.

The key to using your cloud services without a connection is preparation: You must set up offline access before you head off the grid, either to individual files or to an entire collection. Here are instructions for some of the popular options…


Google Drive

Last year, Google introduced offline access to documents you store in Google Drive, which could include documents, spreadsheets, presentations, and even photos and videos that you uploaded yourself. The feature works only in the Chrome browser or the Chrome operating system on a Chromebook…

Read more from the source @ http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/06/11/with-a-bit-of-planning-keep-the-cloud-with-you-always-even-offline/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0