Our future is up in the cloud

The more gadgets we accumulate the harder it becomes to remember where we put them and, more often, what we've put on them. I remember I took photos of a dogs' pool party at the weekend on my iPod Touch however the pictures of the last barbecue could be on my Android smartphone or the digital camera - and I may have copied them to my PC or my laptop, or like as not not at all. It is the same story with video, during the songs I buy on Napster and Amazon could be on any number of devices.

Keeping these devices in sync is driving us crazy - not my words, nevertheless those of Steve Jobs when he unveiled Apple's iCloud service last week.