A person who travels to different places or who travels, for work or for vacation, today always carries his laptop, tablet or smartphone with his work inside, or with applications, photos and documents. personal. Many people consider their laptop or tablet to be invaluable, always carrying it wherever they go. However, it is not always possible to take your computer with you, therefore, taking advantage of the old technologies ( USB ) and the new (the Cloud ), you can always keep your files, documents and programs available and access from anywhere, even without having the own pc .
1) To be always portable, instead of carrying an entire computer with you, you can simply keep all your files and photos on a USB stick, on an SD card or on a portable hard disk .
The USB portable hard disk is convenient to put in your pocket even if it is not quite as small as a USB stick or, even smaller, an SD card.
The SD card, however, requires computers that have the port to insert them, a problem that does not exist for USB sticks, which can be inserted in any PC you use.
Not only personal files or photos can be placed inside a USB stick or SD card, but also so-called portable programs, i.e. applications that can be started on any computer you use, without installing anything and leaving no traces.
In another article, the list with the best free portable programs for Windows PCs .
To do it first, you can instead download and bring the complete suite of portable programs "Portable Apps" to the USB stick or external hard disk.
Emergency portable scanners are also important among portable programs.
Indeed, it is possible to install a portable operating system on a USB stick that allows you to turn on each computer as if it were your own.
You can also create a USB stick with multiple operating systems and multiple boot
To use an external hard drive or a USB stick as a portable file archive to be used on any computer you can get your hands in hotels or internet points or libraries, a file synchronization program may also be useful.
This is useless if you use non-own PCs or public computers but they are excellent if you use a USB stick to transfer files from one computer to another, automatically and without using internet transfers.
It is therefore a matter of making a synchronization of the files so that, if I modify a document from the office, I save it on the USB stick and then take it home, the same document that I also have on the PC at home is replaced with the latest version changed.
An excellent program for file synchronization is Microsoft's SyncToy which was discussed in another article.
2) A much more convenient and simpler way to always keep your personal files available whatever PC you use, with the possibility of synchronizing files between different computers, is the use of Cloud Storage .
Cloud Storage are online services that provide a 2GB, 5GB or 10GB space to store files online so that they can always be opened and edited from any location, whether computer, tablet or smartphone.
The advice is to register an account on at least 5 of the main online storage services or cloud drives : Dropbox, Skydrive, Google Drive, PCloud and Box so as to have a lot of space in which to store files, music, videos, documents and files every type.
Cloud Storage are not only file storage services but also web applications for working or performing operations.
Instead of traditional programs, you can access, from any PC or tablet, with your account, on Google Drive and take advantage of Google's free and online applications to write documents, worksheets and presentations, as you would do with Office Word, Excel programs and Powerpoint.
There are also entire virtual online operating systems that open on the browser and, through access with an account, can be used from anywhere with your own applications and personal settings.
3) When you turn without your computer and use a public pc or someone else's, the most important thing is to surf the internet on your favorite sites, with your personal browser settings and with access to email accounts electronics, Facebook etc. already configured.
In Firefox, Chrome and Opera you can synchronize your favorites and browser settings and other things with the "Firefox Sync", "Chrome Sync" functions which you can base on your Google account "and" Opera Link ".
To use Chrome, Firefox or Opera on another computer without having to change settings or installations, you can use the portable versions of the main browsers, which can always be kept on the USB stick.
Excellent, if you want a truly synchronized browser whatever device you use, it is Maxthon Cloud Browser, recently released.
4) Surfing the internet without using your computer can also mean taking advantage of some online services such as Pocket to save favorite web pages, news and articles to read them later.
If you were left without a mobile phone, we saw how it is possible and simple to make calls using a computer with programs like Skype.
At the same time you can also read the messages received on your mobile phone via the internet from any computer or tablet.
Conversely, you can receive Facebook messages via SMS or read Gmail emails via SMS.
Everything can be done on the move, just a little inventiveness is enough.
In summary, you can travel or go around different places without your computer or tablet, simply keeping in mind the password to access your cloud storage in which to keep documents and keeping your favorite programs in your pocket, on a USB stick.
You can then go to an Internet Point or use the computer of a hotel to do every operation you would also do from home, without any limitation.
