Quickly Create a Personal Cloud on Your Devices & Stream Media With Bdrive
You can’t walk five feet these days without bumping into a cloud storage service. Dropbox, Sugarsync, Box.net, Syncplicity…the list goes on and on. All of these services are easy to use, but they are true clouds. All of your data is kept in a remote location, which leaves you with limited control over its security and limited storage space.
How to Set Up iTunes Match for the First Time: The Definitive Guide
Our definitive guide to what iTunes Match is and how to upgrade all your matched songs to high-quality versions.
Share Files Between Your Computer & Your Android Device With Dropbox
Dropbox is an ingenious file storing and sharing tool. Not only can you upload files to your online Dropbox and share single files or entire folders, you can also install the Dropbox application on your computer, use it like a regular folder, and have all your files and sub-folders synced automatically.
Get Easy Access To Your Documents Stored Online With Google Docs For Android
The Google Docs app for Android provides quick access to your documents and collections stored online with Google. Within the app you can view, create, edit, upload, and share files or take pictures with your Android device camera and directly import them.
4 Ways To Optimize Your Dropbox Experience
It can't be denied. We at MakeUseOf, along with most of the world, still love Dropbox dearly. It's the synchronization tool of choice because it simply works like you expect it to. However, using just the basics of the software may make you miss out on some useful stuff that could make your life even easier.
A Closer Look At iTunes Match vs. Home Sharing vs. Web Streaming
With the recent launching of Apple's iCloud and the music streaming service iTunes Match, cloud computing seems to be the future of Apple and other computer companies. If you use multiple Apple devices like I do, you no doubt welcome the recent upgrades for wirelessly syncing data between your computer and iOS devices.
LG Offers 50GB Of Free Storage For Android Owners [News]
LG has announced one heck of a deal for its Android phone owners. The offer provides 50GB (yes, that’s 5-0) of cloud storage through a service called Box. Dropbox would normally charge you $9.99 per month for the same amount of storage.
How to Set Up iCloud For Your iOS Devices
No doubt the most welcomed feature of the latest iOS 5 update for the iPhone, iPod, and iPad is Apple rolling out iCloud and wireless Wi-Fi connectivity for its smart mobile devices and Macs. Many of us have experienced the pain of connecting our iOS device using USB to iTunes just to update a playlist or backup some related app files. It was almost like calling someone on a wired phone.
The OnLive Cloud Gaming Revolution - A Faster, Easier Way To Game
OnLive is a cloud gaming service that presents a truly unique way to access your favorite games. No longer are you forced to constantly upgrade - instead, you run the games in the cloud, and stream them to your PC, Mac, iPad, Android or TV. It’s truly incredible technology, and well worth a download and giving it a go.
Adobe Announces New Creative Apps For Tablets & A New Sharing Platform [News]
Adobe has announced the upcoming release of six new apps designed for tablets, along with a new cloud sharing platform. The new apps go by the name of Adobe Touch Apps, and are aimed at creative tablet users who don’t have the need for an expensive creative suite. The new apps will sell for $9.99 each on the Android Market, and there isn't a price tag yet nor even a proper announcement for the iOS versions.
Minus: Extremely Simple File Sharing With 10GB of Free Online Storage
Drag some files into your browser and instantly get a link to share them with family or friends. It's this simplicity, along with a staggering 10GB of free storage space, that puts Minus among the best file sharing tools on the web today. Last December we profiled the then-new photo sharing tool Minus. The web app only worked for photos then. Almost a year later and Minus does so much more.
PlainText: A Text Editor With a Dropbox Synchronization Feature [iOS]
If you are the kind of person who edits your documents on the go, then you need two things to accomplish your task. The first is a device that will allow you to access your documents wherever you are, and the second is a text editor which can make sure that your documents will be accessible everywhere you go.
5 Ways To Send Files To Your Dropbox Without Using Dropbox
There are numerous ways to manage files in Dropbox. Maybe, need to get something into my Dropbox and just don’t have access to it right now. For these scenarios, some nice people invented services we can use to send files directly to our Dropbox, without using Dropbox. Look into some of them.
How To Get More Free Dropbox Storage With Your School Email Address [News]
Millions of us use Dropbox who allow you to increase your free storage by using their referral system. When you get someone else to sign up for a Dropbox account, you get an extra 250MB of additional space. But now if you’re a student or educator with a .edu email address, you can get double the credits for referrals.
3 Ways To Escape Cloud Storage Solutions If You Don't Trust Them
Most major IT companies seem convinced that shoving everything into giant data centres in the sky is the solution to many essential computing tasks. But what if you don’t want all your stuff on someone else’s servers? What if you want it at home, where you can physically touch it and have complete control over it?
Where Is The World's Data Being Stored? [INFOGRAPHIC]
As the Internet gets bigger and bigger, so do the places needed to store all of that data. But where are these data centers exactly? Which ones are the largest and who owns them? How can we put 600 Exabytes into perspective so that we can truly understand its size?
5 Critical Tools You Need for a More Productive Virtual Office
A virtual office is a mobile office that is located on your computer or in the Cloud. If your job doesn't tie you down to a specific location, you can set up your tools to work from anywhere in the world. For more and more people, working remotely is becoming a realistic and challenging alternative to commuting to work in a traditional office.
4 Browser Userscripts That Make Google Music Even Better
Add new features to Google Music. Whether you want to download songs from anywhere, view lyrics for currently playing songs, scrobble your songs to Last.FM or just remove the strips from the interface, userscripts from around the web have you covered.
Make Your Dropbox Portable With DropboxPortableAHK [Windows]
Dropbox is a really handy application that allows you to sync a file folder across multiple computers. DropboxPortableAHK makes your Dropbox fully portable, making it so that you don't have to save your Dropbox folder on every computer you use in order to access your data.
Store Your Clipboard Items In The Cloud With ClipCloud [Mac]
It's not always really important things that get copied and pasted, but occasionally it is, and sometimes it would be nice to be able to go back and find that information later on rather than doing things like saving it to text documents that get lost amongst the pile of files and folders I have. ClipCloud is a service capable of handling all of this for you.