Who needs cloud computing?

Some people live blissful digitally disconnected lives -- free of smartphones, free of Facebook, devoid of a digital photo album with snapshots of everything from their baby to their breakfast, no tangle of charging cables, no bytes of data to transfer or tap.

Microsoft SkyDrive -- This one gives you 7 gigabytes of free storage. There are apps for Mac and PC, plus apps for Windows Phone, iOS and through the OneNote app for Android, according to the site.

Google Drive -- You get 5 GB free, upgradable to a terabyte for $49.99 a month. Should the contingency arise to allowing you to access your digital content, the service, unlike the others, as well allows users to collaboratively create and edit documents or video, and facilitates sharing. There's an Android app available now, with an iOS app in the works, the company said.

SugarSync -- Here, you get 5 GB free. Some difference are that you can email files into your SugarSync storage and share folders with passwords or permissions, and you can send files of any size. The service as well keeps the previous five versions of all your documents for either your reference or recovery. Nevertheless only the most recent version counts toward the storage limit. It has apps for iOS, Android, BlackBerry, Windows Phone, Symbian and Kindle Fire, as so then as an Outlook plugin.

DropBox -- This service gives you 2 GB to start, with the ability to boost your storage by "earning" up to 16 additional GB for referring others to the service. With the Pro account you can earn up to 16 GB additional space for referring friends, or upgrade to a Pro account with up to 100 GB and 32 GB for referrals starts at $10 a month. DropBox as well keeps a snapshot of every change you make over the last 30 days without affecting your storage limit. You can share specific files or entire folders with friends, colleagues or family. On the mobile front, it has apps for iOS, Android and BlackBerry.