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Cloudii: One App To Access & Sync Dropbox, Google Drive, SkyDrive & Box On Android

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Names like Dropbox, Google Drive, Box and SkyDrive have become synonymous to cloud storage. Each with their own appeal and distinct features, these services sport their own dedicated apps for both desktop and mobile platforms. If you happen to use more then just one of these services regularly, it is always more convenient to manage your accounts and data through a single app. Cloudii is just that app that allows you to to setup all four aforementioned cloud storage services on your Android device under one roof, and gives you some powerful settings for synchronizing and managing your files. The app gives users the ability to add multiple accounts for each supported service as well, along with some nifty additional features.The app requires Android 4.0 or above. Right after the jump, we take a look at what it has to offer and what makes it worthy of a mention. Read More

Auto-Save Gmail Attachments To & Attach Files From Cloud With Kloudle

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Earlier this year, we covered a Chrome extension called Cloudy that allows you to attach files in Gmail from multiple cloud storage services or your Facebook account directly, without having to download them to your desktop first. Kloudle is a similar service that can connect with Box, Dropbox, and Google Drive, and lets you attach files to your emails in a way similar to Cloudy. Kloudle supports far fewer services than Cloudly but coupled with its Chrome extension, the service does something else as well that can be really useful - it allows you to save files from your Gmail account to any one of your cloud drives. Files are saved automatically based on ‘rules’ that you create, and you can create up to ten rules. Think of it as the famous service IFTTT, working entirely in your email. Read More

Invite Others To Upload To Your Dropbox Or Google Drive Storage With EntourageBox

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When you choose to move your files to the cloud or keep the important ones synced with it, it is likely that you will find one good service that does it, and stick to it. You might also use more than one service depending on its features; for example, I use Google Drive, Dropbox, and Jumpshare. One of my key concerns about using a cloud service is that while I may be able to share files easily (and privately), I cannot receive them from friends through the service without forcing them to sign up for it as well. Under these circumstances, I turn to Google Drive because most of them - if not all - have a Google account. EntourageBox is a web app that fixes this problem; it acts as a bridge between your friends and your cloud drive, and allows them to upload files to a folder of your choice. Currently, it works with Google Drive, Dropbox, and Amazon cloud storage. Read More

How To Password Protect Spreadsheets In Google Drive

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Passwords have protected our computers, phones, and files for a long time. Just about any device can be locked with a password, and files. folders, and drives, can be encrypted with no hassle using tools built for the purpose. What’s less common is a way to encrypt files selectively in the cloud. You can always encrypt them before you upload them to services like Dropbox or Box, etc but for services like Google Drive that allow you to view files online, the encrypted files become inaccessible. This method details how you can password-protect a spreadsheet you've uploaded to Google Drive, while retaining the ability decrypt it right from your browser in order to view or edit it. Read More

Manage Podcasts & Save To Google Drive Or Dropbox With Podcast Gallery

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What’s the fastest way you can think of for saving a podcast so that it’s accessible from just about any where, and on any device? Since we’re talking any device, you may as well rule out the very impressive podcast library you’ve built on your iPod, iPhone, iPad or iWhatever that has iTunes on it. Podcast Gallery is an online service that not only lets you manage and listen to podcasts, but also allows you to save them to Google Drive or Dropbox. You can also directly download podcasts, or listen to them in iTunes if you have it installed on your device. You can create an account on Podcast Gallery and collect different podcasts as well. Each podcast can also be followed via its respective RSS link. Read More

Export Multiple Gmail Messages As A Google Doc For Easy Batch-Printing [Chrome]

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Emails have all but replaced paper in many offices, but we aren’t free of paper entirely; not yet, anyway. There's always that rare occasion that calls for the printing an email; it might be needed as part of some essential work process, some legal or governmental procedure, simply some personal use like printing out a receipt for an online purchase. The fact is that emails are seldom printed, but printed at times nevertheless. Now printing an email is no big deal, but what if you need to print a whole bunch of them, like an entire email thread? Gmail Print All for Chrome is a Chrome app that makes it easier to print emails in bulk. It asks you to select a label from the ones added in your Gmail account and then exports all the emails in that label to a document that is saved to your Google Drive. You can then download the document and print it out with ease. Read More

Access, Manage & Share Cloud & Social Media Content With CloudKafe

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A decade ago, no one probably thought that cloud computing and social network applications would dominate our lives in such a short span of time. Though with so many such services and products at your disposal from the likes of Dropbox, Google, Facebook, Microsoft and many more, it can become quite difficult to keep a track of all of them in their separate apps. Thankfully, we've seen several apps for many platforms that let you manage them all from one interface, and CloudKafe is the latest to join that club. This web app allows to access, manage and share your content from many major cloud, social networking and image sharing sites and applications from a single window with ease. Read More

Manage Multiple Cloud Storage Accounts On Windows 8 With RainbowDrive

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Back in January, we came across an interesting Windows Store app named Cumulo. The application basically lets you link and manage multiple cloud storage services under one roof. Although it was the first Modern UI app of its kind, Cumulo lacked intuitiveness due to a somewhat confusing design that showed all the connected cloud service(s) as a single drive, making things a bit difficult to manage for many. Today, we stumbled upon another such app called RainbowDrive that not only overcomes the shortcomings of Cumulo, but also feels simpler and easier to use compared to the latter. The application supports three cloud storage services as of this writing: SkyDrive, Google Drive and Dropbox. Read More

How To Connect With & Use Third Party Apps In Google Drive

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There is a select number of web services that allow you to save files directly to Google Drive, and of those, there is only a handful that have Chrome apps. Google Drive has just been updated with a new feature to connect these Drive-enabled apps to your Google Drive. Doing so will allow you to launch said service from within Google Drive and create a new file in it from the same ‘Create’ menu that you use to create new documents, presentations, spreadsheets, etc. This post details the simple method you can follow to add a new app to or to access it. Read More

Play Presentations From The Cloud In Chrome & Control Them With Android Or iOS

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A while back, we reviewed YouTube Couch Mode - a Chrome extension that works with a smartphone app (available for iOS and Android) and lets you control YouTube and Vimeo videos playing in your browser. Presentation Remote for Google Drive is a Chrome app by the same developer that lets you similarly control presentations in your browser using the same Smartphone app. You can view presentations from not only Google Drive, but also Slideshare, Dropbox, and Scribd, complete with support for speakers notes. The app also supports presentations in PDF format and claims to support local files of up to 500MB, though this feature didn't work for us with a 160KB PPT file. Presentation Remote relies on the cloud to render the presentation, and you will notice a difference in quality depending on the service you use. Read More

Quicksand For OS X Auto Syncs Recent Files To A Local Folder Or The Cloud

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Dropbox, iCloud, and Google Drive all let you sync files across different devices, but they leave it up to you to manually choose the files to sync by adding them to the service's folder, or uploading it directly. If you usually work with files in another folders and remove to move them to the synced folder, you’re left without options in case you need to access them later from another device. Quicksand is a free Mac app currently in beta that takes over the task of moving your files to the correct folder. It detects which files were recently accessed on your Mac and syncs them to any folder that you specify. This could be your Dropbox or Google Drive folder too, effectively syncing recent files to the cloud. Additionally, you can specify any folder that the app will watch and sync over your preferred cloud service. You can choose to sync or exclude particular file types. Read More

Attach To Gmail From Cloud, Image Hosting Services & Facebook [Chrome]

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Google Drive has been integrated in Gmail so that you can attach a file to a new email directly from your Google Drive cloud storage. The feature is very handy for Google Drive users, but it’s of no use to those of us who primarily use some other cloud storage service. Cloudy is a Chrome extension that lets you attach files to your emails from a large number of cloud services including Google Drive, Dropbox, Box, Facebook, Picasa, Instagram, Flickr, Github, FTP, Evernote, and more. Furthermore, it can also connect with your computer’s webcam and record a video or take a picture to directly attach with your email. The extension also gives you the option to upload files from your computer, pick attachments from other emails in your account, and search & attach images from Wikipedia, Flickr, and Google Image Search. The best thing about the extension is that it works flawlessly with Gmail’s new Compose view. Read More

How To View & Edit Google Drive Presentations While Offline

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Google Drive makes sure you have access to your important files no matter where you are. Though the primary concern with any cloud storage service is losing access to your data when you don’t have an internet connection, which can and does happen at times even when you are least expecting it. For reasons like this and many others, Google Drive has been offering an offline mode that allows you to access your documents in Google Chrome even when you’re not online. In its latest update, Google has added support for presentations to this offline mode, allowing you to edit, view and present them without requiring an internet connection. It requires you install two Chrome apps and change a few of your Google Drive settings. The process is simple and detailed below. Read More

Access & Stream Media From Multiple Cloud Services On Windows 8 With Cumulo

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When dealing with multiple cloud storage services together, things can get a little bit confusing. Keeping a tab on apps for each cloud storage service you use can become tedious, no matter what platform you’re using the service on. Most major cloud service providers such as Dropbox have eventually started to release dedicated Windows 8 apps, but what if you could access multiple cloud services under one interface? This is where Cumulo for Windows shines. Cumulo is a simple and intuitive app offering a feature fairly unique to it at the moment: providing you with simple way of accessing your SkyDrive, Google Drive, Dropbox, SugarSync and Box accounts from one place. Read More

CloudPull Regularly Backs Up Gmail, Contacts & Other Google Account Data To Your Mac

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OS X’s Mail client is quite feature-rich for most of us but if your needs are slightly out of the ordinary, it might not quite cut it for you. The level of customization it offers for some of its features sometimes falls short. One feature of the app that doesn't offer a high level of customize is email backup. Mail only lets you choose the account to back up emails from, and should you want to narrow it down to a mailbox or a label (in Gmail), you'll be out of luck. If you need to backup data from your Gmail account on your Mac and have control over the backup process, give CloudPull Free a try. It’s a free app available in the Mac App Store that downloads data from your Google Account including emails, calendars, contacts, RSS feed subscriptions, and your Google Drive. For emails, it lets you select labels and mailboxes to download messages from. The app runs in the background and continuously monitors your Google account for new items, while keeping point-in-time snapshot of your mailbox (for 90 days) that you can restore in the Mail app. Contacts can be imported in Contacts app, calendar tin the Calendar app, RSS feed subscriptions in Safari, and emails in the Mail app. You can also selectively store messages from a label. Read More

Upload Android Gallery Photos To Cloud While Compressing Them On Your Device

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The Gallery app on Android, as we all know, is a centralized location to access the photo and video albums stored in various directories of your device’s internal and external memory. In this age of high-resolution mobile cameras, images captured from our devices can consume a significant chunk of our local storage space. Confronted by this issue, most users are left with no option but to back up these albums to their computers or their preferred storage of choice in order to create more room for new files on their devices. This makes accessing those good old memories of yours relatively hard to access on the go, especially if the backed up data is sitting on your computer’s hard drive. New to the Play Store, Gallery Drive Sync is a rather unique online photo backup app that aims to solve the ever-threatening ‘out of sight, out of mind’ issue in this regard. The app lets you move select or complete full-resolution Gallery photos and albums to your Google Drive, while still retaining the content on your device in compressed format under their respective albums. Read More

BoxCryptor Brings Dropbox & Google Drive Folder Encryption To Chrome

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You can never be too careful when it comes to security, so if you ever run into someone looking for a padlock for their padlock, don’t be surprised. Of the many things that come under threat and require extra protection, your digital data is possibly the most valuable and frequently targeted. This is why many of us look for ways to padlock our data, i.e., encrypt it so well Tony Stark wouldn't be able to get to it. BoxCryptor is a well known encryption tool for cloud drives - with clients for Windows, Windows 8 and RT, Mac, iOS and Android - and it has just released an extension for Chrome that lets you encrypt files from Dropbox and Google Drive’s web interface. Read More

Save Web Pages, Images, Audio & Video To Google Drive [Chrome]

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You know how they say better late than never? Google just released an official Google Drive extension for Chrome called Save to Google Drive. We could well have done with the extension debuting alongside the Google's cloud storage solution, but have had to do with other alternative extensions like Save to Drive, which we covered last month. Now that Google has released its official extension for Google Drive, expectations will be high. Save to Google Drive adds an icon next to the URL bar, which acts as a shortcut to saving the current web page. It adds a context sensitive option to the right-click context menu, allowing you to save images, links, audio and video to your Google Drive. You can chose to download the file in its original format or convert it to Google format. Read More

Encrypt Sensitive Files Before Syncing Them To Cloud Services

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Cloud storage services have become an integrated part of our daily computer use for most of us. I can’t quite recall sending large files using my decade old email account anymore when my Dropbox suffices for the job. It’s both secure and easy to use, and has plenty of advantages over other options, for instance instant file synching across all connected platforms, no attachment size limitation that most email services are plagued with (until Google's recent integration of Drive with Gmail), and not to mention the free cloud space one gets for keeping our files accessible from anywhere in the world. However, for many, cloud storage raises the concern of security. Previously, we covered a Windows application called Cloudfogger that can encrypt any file before uploading it to the cloud. Today, we are bringing you yet another such utility called Secured Cloud Drive, which encrypts files using military-grade 256-bit AES encryption prior to sending them your selected cloud drive. It supports all major cloud services including Dropbox, SkyDrive, Google Drive and Bitcasa. Read More

Share Any File Through Google Drive & SMS Using Send It For Android

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Fresh to the Play Store, Send It is an innovative file sharing tool for Android smartphones and tablets. Using Send It, you can share any file stored on your Android device with your phone, email and / or social contacts without requiring the recipients to install any app on their end or register with a service. Basically, Send It utilizes your Google Drive storage to upload shared content to a dedicated folder. Once files are uploaded, the app then generates a short URL of the shared stuff that can be forwarded to the intended recipients via SMS, email or social media. A major advantage is that if sent via SMS, your recipients instantly receive the notification and download link of the shared content regardless of whether they’re currently connected to the internet or not. All Send It requires to work its trick is a valid Google Drive account (for storing uploaded files), a high speed internet connection for large uploads, and SMS credit available on your plan to share URL-containing texts. The app supports sharing virtually every file type with any number of recipients you desire, and integrates stringently with your Android’s universal file sharing menu to allow you to share content from the Gallery or any Android file manager. Read More