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How To Setup Dropbox-Like Synchronization Using Windows Live Mesh

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Many users who use Dropbox and other cloud storage services, have recently been more concerned about security vulnerabilities that can compromise their personal data. While many people like using services like Dropbox because of the convenience that they provide, Windows Live Mesh can be used as a viable alternative for syncing multiple folders (instead of just one parent folder) between Windows and Mac computers. In this post, we will walk you through the steps of setting up your Windows Live Mesh synchronization folders. Read More

Official Client For Cloud Service YouSendIt Arrives In Android Market

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With more than 23 million registered subscribers from all across the globe, YouSendIt is easily one of the most extensively used online file syncing and sharing web services. Apart from updating its existing desktop and iOS clients just recently, YouSendIt also introduced brand new clients for Mac and Android to ensure that users of almost all renowned operating systems can avail the quality cloud computing features that it has to offer. Like its other variants, the official YouSendIt client for Android is also meant to provide you with instant and secure access to all the data stored on your cloud. Using the app, you can manage your files and folders, open, modify and add signatures to your digital documents, capture and upload photos/videos and share folders with your mail recipients (with user-defined access privileges for each). That’s not all; you can secure the app itself using a a 4-digit PIN. Read More

Bdrive: Create Private Cloud Storage On PC/Mac With Mobile Access

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Cloud services like Dropbox, Box.net, SugarSync etc, greatly serve the need of accessing data across all the configured systems over internet, but what if you need your personal cloud storage that doesn’t require uploading files to an intermediary server for performing file sync and share operations? Bdrive lets you deploy personal cloud storage that you can configure as per your requirements. It’s a cross-platform application that supports a wide range of operating systems, including Windows, Mac OS X, Android and iOS. What makes it different from other personal cloud solutions is Mobile Access & Windows Explorer integration; it creates a 'B' drive (or drive letter of your choice) to save the files that you want to synchronize across all the Bdrive configured systems on network. Once the drive is mounted, you can access files from not only PCs, but Andriod and iOS devices (iPhone, iPod and iPad), as well. Read More

Cloud & Social Media Data Aggregator ZeroPC Now Available On iPad

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Dropbox revolutionized the field of data storage, and iCloud went a long way in bringing the concept to iOS. With cloud storage becoming the latest buzz in the tech world, it is understandable that a lot of cloud services have sprouted their wings in recent years. All this is useful but what’s the point of it all if you're using one too may services and can't remember which item is stored in which one? Recently covered Greplin for iOS and ZeroPC Cloud Navigator for Android are excellent solutions to said problem, and now, an iPad variant for the latter is available on the iTunes App Store. For those who haven't read our review of ZeroPC Cloud Navigator, it is a free app that integrates with almost all popular cloud services and social networks, and lets you browse directly through data stored on each. Read More

ZeroPC Cloud Navigator: All-In-One Cloud Data Aggregator For Tablets

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ZeroPC Cloud Navigator is a free cross-platform cloud data aggregator for Android and iOS-powered tablets that helps users connect to their various online cloud storage and social network services and presents all data from these services through a conventional file explorer-like interface. Once you associate your accounts from various online services with ZeroPC Cloud Navigator, you can easily access, manage and share all content stored on each service.  As of this writing, ZeroPC Cloud Navigator supports syncing your personal notes, music, video and image files from itself, Facebook, Twitter, Google Docs, Picasa, Flickr, SugarSync, Dropbox, Evernote, Instagram, Amazon, Box.net and many more. Read More

SanDisk Memory Zone: Phone, SD Card & Cloud Storage Management App For Android

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SanDisk Memory Zone is a powerful and effective file manager for Android. Along with providing comprehensive file management features for data stored in your device (phone memory and SD card), the app extends its support to data that is stored on various cloud services. The app lets you back up data of your phone memory to the SD card or to a preferred cloud storage. In addition, you can protect your most important files using a password, sort files in multiple ways, move files from the SD card to cloud or vice versa, select files in batches and perform various actions on them. Read More

CrashPlan: Download Multiple Files At Once From The Cloud [Android]

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CrashPlan is a cross-platform cloud service (for Mac, Windows, Linux and OpenSolaris) that provides its users comprehensive online data storage and backup facilities. Already becoming popular among computer users, the service has just released its mobile app for Android users to offer them instant and remote access to their data. With CrashPlan’s official client for Android, users can simultaneously download multiple files from the cloud to their device, open them using compatible apps and even share the best content with their friends. Read More

Ubuntu One Is Now Available For Windows [Review]

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Ubuntu One is a famous cloud storage service similar to Dropbox, with applications available for Linux based OS,  Android, iPhone, and now Windows. Ubuntu One comes pre-installed with Ubuntu and is considered as the premium cloud storage service for Linux users. Ubuntu One has launched the beta version of their Windows client for Ubuntu one users. While Ubuntu One is widely used on Linux and Android, it seems to be stretching its wings towards wider market comprising of Windows users. The Windows client is quite sleek and stylish and the available options for synchronizing files seem to be much simpler than the native Ubuntu user interface of Ubuntu One. Having Ubuntu One installed on a Windows machine is also likely to help users sync files conveniently across their smartphones, Ubuntu and Windows operating systems. Read More

Manage Files And View Stats For Ubuntu One Using Magicicada

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As we all know that Ubuntu One is a Dropbox like cloud storage service with applications for Ubuntu, Android and iPhone users. Magicicada is a GTK+ frontend for Ubuntu One to help you manage the file synchronization of the Ubuntu One cloud storage service, effortlessly. It displays synchronization stats in real time for Ubuntu One  files. Moreover, users can also view information about their shared files/folders and their meta data. Since this functionality is not available in the default Ubuntu One GUI, Magicicada provides Ubuntu users with in-depth information about their shared content instead of having to visit the Ubuntu One website to login and view their file sharing stats. Read More

Cloud Experience – 10GB Cloud Storage With Multi Device Sync

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Dropbox is the one service that made cloud storage popular, sure there was Google and its cloud but Dropbox had more to offer and since then cloud storage services have been popping up like mushrooms with little to offer, except perhaps 1 or 2GBs of extra space. Needless to say that very few of these services could actually rival Dropbox but Cloud Experience is a cloud storage service that comes very close. Not only does it offer 10GB of free storage space and syncing across different computers but also has an app for Android, iPhone, BlackBerry and works on both Windows and Mac platform. Add to that the fact that the interface is much better than that of Dropbox and you have a fairly good rival. Read More

Encrypting Ubuntu One Files With Ubuntu One Encrypt / Decrypt

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Ubuntu One is a web service similar to Dropbox which comes pre-installed with the Ubuntu operating system. It allows users to store and sync files between computers and mobile devices using it's cloud storage service. We told you how to encrypt Dropbox in Ubuntu using ENCFS. This time we have Ubuntu One Encrypt/Decrypt which is a script for encrypting and decrypting Ubuntu One data before uploading it. According to the developer, he made this script keeping in view the weak security provided by Ubuntu One (reminds us of Dropbox), which does not provide encryption for uploaded data from your Ubuntu computer to the cloud. Read More

SkyAMP For Android Streams Music From Your Windows Live SkyDrive

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Not having the official SkyDrive client to access their Windows Live content is undoubtedly frustrating for Android users, but that does not imply that people are completely isolated from their cloud content when on Android.   There are numerous third party clients that help you connect to your Windows Live account, and most of them bring a specific purpose to the table. For instance, some are photo browsers, some file explorers and the like. SkyAMP is a cloud-based MP3 player for Android that allows you to stream and download audio from your Windows Live SkyDrive. Just upload your favorite tracks to your Windows Live SkyDrive from your PC and stream them on your device anytime and anywhere. The app allows access to registered Windows Live users only. Get a SkyDrive ID now if you don’t have one already. Read More

Cloud Turtle Is File Explorer For Amazon S3, Nirvanix And Timeline Cloud Files

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Cloud backup services like Amazon S3, Nirvanix and Timeline Cloud provide data backup for SMEs (Small and Medium Enterprises), as well as for individuals. While applications like Leo Backup, etc., provide a desktop solution for managing an Amazon S3 account from your desktop, such application are limited to the management of one cloud backup service only. Cloud Turtle is a desktop client for paid backup services such as Amazon S3, Nirvanix and Timeline Cloud services, letting you manage multiple accounts and perform data uploading and downloading tasks. It provides all the common and unique features of respective cloud services under one interface. For example, Amazon S3 users can upload, download data, delete objects and buckets, set bucket policies, and so on. Whereas, with Nirvanix you can upload, download and delete files and folders, create, delete and edit users from your master account, stream music and videos, view your documents in Google Docs, etc. Similarly, Timeline Cloud users can use Cloud Turtle to access and manage encrypted files from their Timeline Cloud accounts. Read More

Cloud Notes For Windows Phone 7 & PC Creates Notes, Syncs With Dropbox

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Looking for a simple way to sync notes from your Windows Phone 7 device and Windows PC to your Dropbox account and back? Look no further than Cloud Notes. The app lets you create notes, share them via email and upload them to your Dropbox cloud storage. Both the mobile client and desktop variant establish a two-way sync between notes stored on your WP7 device/PC and a directory of your choice within your Dropbox folder. That is, any changes made to notes from within the app will be reflected in their Dropbox copies and vice versa. The application is not to be confused with a previously reviewed desktop gadget by the same name that syncs notes with Google Docs. More after the break. Read More

Share Huge Files Online With Unlimited Storage Capacity Using Fyels

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Sharing big files over the internet is somewhat limited; it’s restricted by size limitations. If you want to share big files you have to cough up a subscription fee for a premium account. Fyels is a web service that raises the bar on file size limits; while Dropbox gives you a cloud drive of 2GB to fill anyway you want, Fyels gives you unlimited storage capacity and lets you share files of up to 9GB at one time, for free. Read More

Amazon Cloud Player For Web & Android Streams Music From Your Cloud Drive

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No matter how larger a capacity your Android's overall storage has, if you are a die-hard music fan, you will probably never be able to contain the entire music collection on just a SD card. Maybe you do not need to spend too heavily on a large capacity SD card, or worry about getting your device's limited space consumed by just a handful of albums anyway, because of all the various online music streaming and storage services that are available these days. Talking of cloud services, Amazon has just recently launched its very own online streaming and storage service for the web and Android devices. The Amazon Cloud Drive service allows you to upload music, videos and documents to your personal Cloud Drive and in conjunction with Amazon Cloud Player, lets you stream your music library on your computer via the web or on your Android device via Amazon MP3. New users receive 5 GB of free cloud storage, which can be upgraded to 20 GB for a year if you purchase an MP3 album from the Store before the 31st of December, 2011 or for an annual payment of $20. As of this writing, the cloud player service is only available for US residents. Read More

AVG LiveKive AirSpace – Backup, Sync And Share Data From The Cloud

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AVG has recently released a beta version of AVG LiveKive, codenamed AirSpace. It is a cloud based storage service which automatically backs up and synchronizes content with multiple systems. It is much like the widely used Dropbox and SugarSync. All users that sign up for a free account receive a volume of up to 5GB storage space. AirSpace provides a unique feature which enables users to select multiple directories (e.g. My Documents, Desktop, etc) and sub folders to backup data from. For example, you may choose to backup data from a single folder or sub-folder within My Documents. All specified content is backup to the cloud and can be synchronized with a single account with multiple computers. You can also share your folders with other AirSpace users such as your friends and family. Read More