There are many companies now offering cloud services, but the two biggest are Microsoft and Google. They both have calendars, contacts, documents, photos, email and online storage for free. All you need to do is sign up for a Windows Live account or a Google account and you have free access to all the rest of it. Need I reapeat, it's free! Which is better? Hmmm, Microsoft offers free versions of Word, Excel, Powerpoint and OneNote with their documents. That can save you from buying Microsoft Office (Big $). Google uses Open Office, which is MS Office compatible, but Google also has a wider variety of other services that are very useful. I am in the Google camp and I have an Android smart phone. Let me give you a tour of how I use Google for my business and personal computing.
The first trick to this is called "Tabbed browsing". If you know what that is and use tabs in your browser you can skip this paragraph. If not, learn how to do this, it will increase your computer efficiency greatly. Just like file folders have a tab on each folder for the name of the file and you can see all the tabs if all the folders are laying on top of each other, tabbed browsing works the same way. All modern browsers like Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome and Safari support tabbed browsing (in Safari you may have to go to preferences and turn it on). Now right click on a link and you should get a menu. On that menu select "open in a new tab". Now you should see two tabs open in your browser, you switch back and forth between them just by clicking on the tabs. Wow, no more windows covering up windows and having 5 browsers open at once. With tabbed browsing you open one copy of your browser and use mulltiple tabs, which you can see the titles of. Now you can easily click between the web pages you want to use.