I just moved into a new place, and it’s great, but it also doesn’t have very much space to store my stuff. Yayboo! So I’ve been digging through the Lifehacker archives to figure out how I can fit everything in an apartment with just a few cupboards and closets. Here’s what I came up with.
If you’re using more than one cloud storage service (it’s hard not to with all the free space being thrown around), managing your files between them can be tricky. Otixo gives you a centralised view of all your online files for easy copying and pasting between accounts from the web interface or through a mapped drive on your desktop.
Now that Google Drive has built file storage into your Google account, it’s only natural that you’d like it to play nicely with your other Google apps. With a few tricks, it can — at least with your Gmail account.
Unless you’re a kitchen ninja that can plan and measure out the exact portions for every meal you make, it’s likely you find yourself wasting good food because you didn’t plan right, you forgot about it, or you just had no idea what to do with it. Thankfully, it’s not too difficult to cut down on your kitchen waste. Here’s how to do it.
Yet another addition to the ever-growing cloud storage market: local cloud vendor Ninefold is offering its SMB Cloud Drive product with 150GB of storage for up to five users for $39.99 per month.
If you could use some storage under the bed, you can hack two IKEA Expedit 5×1 shelving units into a platform storage bed along with two sheets of MDF, a 4×4-inch post and a few floor protectors.
DIY and Household blogger Ana White’s site shares an easy-to-construct DIY couch that offers two large storage spaces beneath the seat. Normally DIY couches are expensive due to buying upholstery foam, but this design uses a 7.6cm thick camping mattress as the seat.
If you paid for extra Google storage space (shared across Gmail, Google Docs and Picasa) before the company introduced Google Drive on April 24, you’re in luck. That move gets you a huge discount on its new file storage tool Google Drive.
Google Drive launched yesterday, which was a public holiday for everyone in Australia. Chances are that a lot of Google’s Sydney development team were nonetheless crammed into the Google’s Aussie HQ, since a fair few of the key features in Google Drive were built down under.
Google Drive, the long-rumoured web-based file storage tool, launches for real today. It’s a little Dropbox, a dash of Google Docs, all with the amazing organisation and search power you’ve come to expect from the people that created Gmail. Here’s what it has in store.
