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Ubuntu One’s Online Storage Looks An Awful Lot Like Dropbox
12:30AM Kevin Purdy | Ubuntu One, an online file storage service from Ubuntu’s backers, could be a unique, innovative way to seamlessly integrate cloud-style computing into the most popular Linux desktop. Right now, though, it just looks like Dropbox. More »
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SugarSync Offers 2GB Of Free Windows/Mac/Mobile Syncing
1:05AM Kevin Purdy | Windows/Mac/mobile: SugarSync, a previously paid-only syncing service, now offers a free 2GB plan that keeps documents synced across Windows, Mac, and mobile platforms. More »
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Droppler Makes Drop.io Your iPhone’s Web Storage Bin
1:10AM Kevin Purdy | iPhone/iPod touch only: Free, no-sign-up file sharing service drop.io is a great place to stash files. With the Droppler iPhone app, it becomes an essential tool for storing and grabbing anything on the go. Droppler isn’t free, but at $US1.99, it serves up a lot of useful functions. drop.io is a pretty unique service amongst the many online storage competitors; it only offers 100MB per “drop,” which can contain multiple files, but those files can be shared, linked, controlled, and otherwise used as semi-disposable cloud space. Connecting your iPhone to Drop.io through Droppler gives you, for instance, the ability to quickly upload photos for easy grabbing on your desktop, rather than to click the photo, hit “Email,” type an address, wait to send, and repeat ad nauseum. You can stash away links and notes to check on your iPhone later, like grocery lists, and images and screenshots from your iPhone can later be faxed, sent, or otherwise manipulated. Droppler also lets you record voice memos directly into a drop.io space, but my iPod lacks the iPhone’s mouthpiece to properly show it off. The major limitation of Droppler is really an iPhone limitation—you can’t download or store files that the device doesn’t work with or recognise, like .zip archives. Other than that, it’s a real convenient means of keeping web-based notes and links accessible anywhere, offloading files for quick download, and otherwise extending your phone’s space. Droppler is $1.99, requires an iPhone or iPod touch running at least the 2.2 software. Droppler [iTunes Store via Just Another iPhone Blog] More »
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Google’s GDrive Will Allow Access To Files ‘Anywhere, Anytime’
11:00PM Kevin Purdy | The Google Operating System blog points to one blogger’s discovery of text inside the Google Pack software suite that basically lays out what GDrive will do: GDrive provides reliable storage for all of your files, including photos, music and documents. GDrive allows you to access your files from anywhere, anytime, and from any device – be it from your desktop, web browser or cellular phone. So GDrive is shaping up to be an any-file backup system that will roll out with a desktop client, web access. But with all the feature-rich competition GDrive’s facing, one would think tie-ins with other Google Apps, and raw data space, would be what Google truly wants to crow about. Are you intrigued by GDrive so far, or wondering what all the noise is about? First Official Description of GDrive [Google Operating System] More »
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More Hints That Google’s Long-Awaited Web Drive Is On Its Way
12:05PM Adam Pash | A week ago we pointed toward indications that a Google storage solution—unofficially called Google Web Drive—was on its way. Weblog Google Operating System continues the sleuthing, this time uncovering a new Web Drive icon buried in the depths of a CSS file for Google Apps, hosted on Google.com, and blown up all pixely in the screenshot to the right. Snazzy. More »
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SkyDrive Upgrade Goes Live With 25GB Of Space
12:30AM Kevin Purdy | Windows Live, intended to be a landing page for social activity and Microsoft’s cloud-connected apps, is rolling out a host of redesigns and upgrades, but none so exciting (to our eyes, anyways) as the anticipated jump of the SkyDrive online storage service to 25GB capacity. As the Digital Inspiration blog points out, SkyDrive seems to be a central part of the Redmond giant’s web ambitions, so it’s not likely to go away or shrink. Aside from the raw upload/download capabilities, having a SkyDrive account gives you a few other cool abilities, which we’ll detail below. More »
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Gladinet Mounts Web Storage Apps As Virtual Drives
9:00PM Kevin Purdy | Windows only: Free utility Gladinet Cloud Desktop removes the web interfaces from Google Docs, Picasa Web Albums, Windows Live SkyDrive and Amazon S3 Storage, mounting them instead as folders you can add, remove, or open documents from. Gladinet hides most of the back-end technology that pulls it off, asking you only for a username and password. Once mounted, it’s easy to, say, open a Google Docs file in your local copy of Microsoft Word, or directly add pictures to folders in your Picasa or SkyDrive accounts. Read on for a look at how Gladinet works, along with a 10-minute video that explains more of its features. More »
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SkyDrive Will Upgrade To 25GB Of Online Storage
12:00AM Kevin Purdy | The Windows Live SkyDrive Team announces that the online storage service will jump “soon” to 25GB, with lots of photo-friendly tools like slideshows, people and place tagging, and Live Photo Gallery integration (so, why not just make Photo Gallery 25GB?). Pretty impressive space boost, and it might help link all the Windows Live services into a semi-coherent whole. [via Windows Team Blog] More »
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Gmail Drive Config Mounts Multiple Gmail Accounts As Disks
8:33AM Lifehacker US Edition | Windows only: Mount more than one Gmail account as a remote disk drive with free utility Gmail Drive Config. It works with Gmail Drive, which we’ve covered in the past. Yes, it’s all very experimental, I did encounter some annoyances, and Google could probably make it all go poof with a few keystrokes from some command line prompt in Mountain View. Rest assured, you’ll always be able to access any files added via mounted drives through Gmail proper. But I got two accounts set up and working as network storage in just a few minutes. Here’s how. More »
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