Who says we can only post development related stuff here? Hell no! 
This weekend I’ve been testing and researching the cloud storage possibilities and one in particular caught my attention with it’s simplicity and efficiency.
Gladinet Cloud Desktop is a piece of software that mounts a local drive to any cloud storage resource that you want. The beauty of the software is that it can connect to a wide area of cloud storage services:
- EMC Atmos Online
- EMC Atmos Storage
- Box.net
- Google Picasa
- Google Docs
- Google Docs (apps)
- Windows live skydrive (25GB space for free!)
- Amazon S3
- Any Webdav Server
- Any FTP Server
It handles the file uploading in a background process, so for you it seams that the file is uploaded instantly but actually the software is still handling this in your background processes but even then the file transfer speed is super. I’m using this with Windows Skydrive and I can’t tell the difference between my local wifi NAS drive or this online storage. I even can run programs from this drive.
I also use Google picasa for my photo storage and I can very easily browse all my 16000 pictures on this drive. (thumbnail view, open files, copy, move, …)
So when I say that this is a cool piece of software I really mean a cool piece of software.
BTW .. Starter edition is free! (and it has all the features we need)
gg @ the gladinet people.
As long as the default upstream speed is so slow in Belgium these kind of cloud services can not be used properly. It’s good for smaller backups but if you want to upload 20GB than you have a problem
So we just have to wait until Belgacom and Telenet increase their upstream speed. Actually they just did, but it’s still too slow.
I agree but that’s where the background processes come in handy offcourse. Although I must admit that the speed with my Turbonet XL connection from Telenet is quite acceptable. (D: 25Mbps | U: 1,25 Mbps) But offcourse the people with XL connections in Belgium are a happy few i guess.
One thing I like about the idea is that if I run out of space with my current account, say Skydrive, I can just apply a new account and double my space instantly. Cool!