Wow, I didn't know it happened that fast!

I promised to use only Chinese here, but for quick blogging English is better:

Nowadays, things happen when you dream of them. Couple of weeks ago, when I start using Meebo, I realized that my digital life actually migrated to cloud computing without my conscious within the last few years. The following applications used to be provided by desktop software, and their data need to be saved into your local hard disk. But now, it's no longer ture:

1. E-Mails: OK, it's ridiculous to repeat, but still: no more outlook, no more pop3, no more email clients. Now, Email means web mail only: http://mail.google.com/
   
   
2. Office Documents: Word document, spreadsheet, although I was not a heavy user, but all my documents are now on google doc. http://docs.google.com/
   
   To me, it's ridiculous to use Word any longer, I virtually don't know what to do with the .doc file: print them out? put them into USB disk? email them to myself so I can modify it at home so that I can forget to email back to my office address the next morning? I don't get the point...
   
   
3. Notes: I used to take notes in text files, now all of them are in google notebook. Well, yes, google stopped develop it, but I guess something better will emerge very soon. http://google.com/notebook/
   
   
4. Bookmarks: I used Google bookmarks for several years, now I found something better: Diigo. http://www.diigo.com/dashboard/alcibiades
   
   
5. Calendar: Google calendar, before I don't even use calendar: what's the use of a calendar if you can't check it on the road or at home? http://calendar.google.com/
   
   
6. Contacts: I used to have a phone book, when I was in high school, it's my precious little book with all those phone numbers of girls. Then I lost it... Same thing happens to your outlook contact, since when you change your job, it's extremely difficult to migrate them from one computer to another, not to mention those annoying duplicates and office numbers which you will never use after you left. Now I am using GMail contacts, soon I will be using it with my iPhone... it's a sad story though, this is its bright side... http://mail.google.com/
   
   
7. Books: This is funny. When Internet and I still young, I used to download and save all different kinds of stuffs from it. Now, I still do, like movies and something else which I am sure will be disappear from Internet or at least hard to find (An example is photos of CGX).
   But at that time I downloaded all those e-books I can find, and it adds up to about 10G! Until I realized, free e-books will always be free, and the services will always get better. Currently, I read e-books on my iPhone with stanza and on the desktop, I just use browser. Kindle or it's iPhone software will soon hit international market, and I assume there will be a browser version as well. Books will be no longer needed on your shelf or in your hard disk.
   
   For those who clicked the link of "Photos" above, I apologize.
   
   
8. Photos: Microsoft is offering a 25G sky drive space, I think google won't follow it that much. My essential photo albums are now all on Picasa, and apart from the upload speed issue, my backup goes directly to Amazon Web Services through Jungle Disk. To set it up, it's little bit tricky, but it's extremely cheap. (Of course I still have backups of photos in my computer, but my BELIEVE is, they will be gone sooner than I expect)
   
   
9. Videos: same as photos, I upload them to Picasa, save them to AWS, and waiting for a cheaper and faster service to do backup. But as you know, now you don't have to send DVDs to others to share your wedding clips: http://www.youtube.com/
   
   OK, about photos and videos, yes, we still not quite satisfied with the online versions of Photoshops and Premiers, but you know, I have a feeling, that when you expect something very eagerly, they may just come out right in the corner...
   
   
10. RSS reader: I never used a native RSS reader, jumped to Google reader directly.
    
    
11. Internet Messaging: From ICQ to MSN IM to Google chat, now Meebo rules them all, in a browser, everywhere. MSN messenger installer used to be one of a "must have" when you get a new machine or rebuild your PC, now, it's no longer
    http://www.meebo.com/
    
    
12. PDF Reader: Just like MSN IM, Adobe Reader(Acrobat Reader before) was the standard software you install in the very beginning. Now, I am telling you, you don't need it any more. Just try to upload a pdf onto google doc, you will see, it understands PDF!
    
    
13. Dictionary: I still use 金山词霸, but with FireFox or chrome's translation tool, now I can live without it.
    
    
14. Games: I stopped gaming about 2 years ago, guess I can't say much about it now. But check out this.
    
    
15. Music: This is the best part, when I start using Meebo, I tried to find out what else inside of my computer can be moved onto cloud, then I found what's left: musics! I still have a huge library in iTunes which I can't access them online as pictures, videos and documents. Then, today I heard a news
    
    OK, it's not like I am going to use this service right away. But this means you will soon be able to see similar or better services, then after that, your iTunes, iPod, iPhone or other mp3 music player will no longer need a storage of 8, 16, 32G.
    
    
16. TV Shows: Alright, it's not happening directly here, but it's happening here. Basically, you just need to follow the video, then you can watch all those popular TV shows on hulu.com. This is crazy, you don't even need to BT it. I am watching 24 now, Chloe is hotter than ever...
    
    Talking about TV, I haven't turned my 32" LCD to "TV channels" for almost, hmmm 4 years? Wait, my mother in law maybe did it several times when she's at our place, ohh, and on olympic opening. But, I haven't actually watched any TV on it since I bought it. I used it several hours a day, as my main computer screen.
    
    
17. Some movies and pictures: You get what I mean here, these type of files used to occupy most of your hard disk space, and you wipe them again and download them again, again and again... now, instead of terabytes of your hard disk space, you only need to combine any two of these words: "tube", "you", "porn", "sex", then put them onto address bar.
    
    I apologize again for not giving these precious links.
    

So, you can pretty much see a picture here, which I repeated in front of friends again and again: You don't need YOUR computer soon! You will just need A computer, any computer, with a browser, with cloud computing you get what's yours every where.