Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/03/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Interesting Phil, Thanks for the link, Saludos cordiales Lluis El 09/03/2009, a las 5:07, Phil Swango escribi?: > Well, here's a novel idea that some here may find a use for: cloud > storage. > That is, storage on a server you can access from anywhere and any > computer, > including your iPhone or iPod Touch, even when you're not online. > It's from > a resource called ZumoDrive (http://zumodrive.com/) and it's free if > you > only need a gig of storage, and relatively inexpensive if you need > more. > The way it works is this: You DL the installation file and run it. > After > it's installed you will find a Z: drive on your computer. Drag and > drop any > file to Z: and you can access it online, or even offline on the > Phone/Touch. > Z: initially has three folders -- Documents, Pictures and Music. > Docs can > include Word, Excel, TXT, and PDF files, among others. Music is for > MP3 and > other music formats, and Pictures is for JPGs et al. Once you have > files on > the Z: drive they are available for viewing, sharing, etc. You can > also set > up sub-folders. To share a photo, say, you right-click (PC) on the > file and > select "share". Then you can get a link to the photo that you can > post > anywhere you like (kind of like TinyUrl). For example, this link > should > show a flower photo from my Canon SX110: > http://www.zumodrive.com/share/26WNmY1Mz. You can also link to any > folders > or sub-folders you have created on the Z: drive. > > To access files from your Phone/Touch you'll need to DL the > ZumoDrive app > from the app store (free for now). After you install it, you'll > find an app > icon on your Phone/Touch that takes you to the Z: drive on you home > computer. Sweet! > > The reason you can access files offline on the Phone/Touch is that > ZumoDrive > puts your most recently accessed files on your gadget if there's room > available. Of course, if you have 100 gigs of ZumoDrive storage > most of it > will still have to be accessed online. > > Works great on my iPod Touch. > > > -- > Phil Swango > 307 Aliso Dr SE > Albuquerque, NM 87108 > 505-262-4085 > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information