[CLOUD] iCloud, Skydrive, Dropbox.

jungleroomx

The Cloud: It's the next big thing®.

As computer storage has just about hit the level at which constant uninstalls for space have become a thing of the past, the need to access that information has risen. Remote desktop was once a solution, but since then this thing called "Cloud Storage" has popped up and has made life easier for some of us... sort of.

The three big ones I always see people bring up seem to be Skydrive, iCloud, and Dropbox. Which one do you use?

(Me personally, I've got my Skydrive linked to a Gladinet "virtual drive" which lets me access the cloud storage like another hard drive on the computer. Very easy!)

Malkor

Google Music.

Google Music on my computer. Google Music on my Google Phone (and therefore in my car and wherever I have like 1 min of network coverage to DL songs).

GOOGLE MUSIC FOVERER

syndalis

Different services for different things.

I use iTunes in the Cloud for my music; works like a treat, upgrades the quality of all my older MP3s to the newer cleaner rips apple has, and put the music on all my devices.

I use iCloud for keeping a solid backup of my iDevices. If my iPhone were to fall into a woodchipper right now, I would get a new one from my local apple store, sign in, and all my stuff will reload (including save games and text messages) from the cloud pretty neat.

I use Dropbox for files, because it is honestly the best, most robust and most platform-agnostic solution out there for being your virtual flash drive in the sky. I have enough storage to keep my active client project files in the cloud, and whether I am working at home on my desktop, at starbucks on my MacBook Air, or anywhere else on my iPad, I have the newest version of the file, and that is pretty goddamn awesome.

Nightslyr

I use Dropbox to move things to/from my iPad. It's flawless.

Cleveralias

I don't know if this is the proper place for this but wth - Is there any way to have my Ios device only list the music that's currently available on it instead of my entire library that's stored on Icloud ? The issue isn't that it takes long to download any given track - which only takes seconds, but that I have a ridiculously huge collection of poorly labeled tracks that is a PITA to sort though - even if I go to "albums" it will list every partial album even if its only single track . For that reason I usually only ever put a small portion of my library on any given device, but with Icloud it now forces me to sort though the entire library, even if it's not available locally.

TychoCelchuuu

Google Docs for docs, Gmail for small files, Dropbox occasionally.

Abracadaniel

Cleveralias wrote:

I don't know if this is the proper place for this but wth - Is there any way to have my Ios device only list the music that's currently available on it instead of my entire library that's stored on Icloud ? The issue isn't that it takes long to download any given track - which only takes seconds, but that I have a ridiculously huge collection of poorly labeled tracks that is a PITA to sort though - even if I go to "albums" it will list every partial album even if its only single track . For that reason I usually only ever put a small portion of my library on any given device, but with Icloud it now forces me to sort though the entire library, even if it's not available locally.

MusicBrainz

You're welcome.

Mr_Rose

DropBox for me, specifically anything I want on both my portable devices and my PC. iCloud for iOS backups of course, but nothing else goes there.
One thing that's really great about DropBox though, that I guess only a few people have realised, is that you can run a basic website out of it. No server-side stuff to be sure, but if you just want people to be able to see something? Slap some HTML in your public folder and share the link.

xraydog

Jungle Disk is great. I use it to back up my photos and some other misc documents. Cheap too, just $2/month for 5 GB basic remote backup. However if I was on a Mac I'd use iCloud.

Any photos I wanna share I just put them on Imgur, which is also great.

floobie

iCloud for calendars, contacts, photos, and music. Dropbox for files. I can see myself eventually switching to iCloud for e-mail as well. Still use Gmail for that.

Fiskav

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jungleroomx

Nobody on Skydrive?

It's a pretty good service, but it's mostly awesome for the size of it.

Stormwatcher

Google for email and calendar, Dropbox for my freelance translation jobs, it's a heavensend... I'll always have the right version of the file, be it at the office, at my pc, at my notebook or at my netbook. And it keeps my work safe, too.

Fiskav

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Alec_M

I use Dropbox because it is really easy to handle and I organize, manage and store my whole data collection.
I personally have a lot of music that I am recording with Audials from webradios. Then I just connect Audials with Dropbox and can sync my music collection and access it from anywhere - just need internet....but the biggest benefit of the connection of those to programs is that Audials finds every music track I like for me and then uploads it to the cloud storage Dropbox. So my music is always up-to-date!
if you are interested, here is a tutorial I just found on how to connect both: http://audials.com/en/cloud/dropbox.html

Quake Matt

jungleroomx wrote:

Nobody on Skydrive?

It's a pretty good service, but it's mostly awesome for the size of it.

I sort of use it - I've got a single < 100kb note-taking folder that's synced through Live Mesh...

Wulf

iCloud for my personal stuff, and DropBox for my business miscellaneous.

Mike Danger

Google for email, calendar (through iCalX, even though I hate 10.7 iCal), and bookmarks (through Chrome Sync)
Dropbox for saving stuff to print at the library later and quickly transferring stuff between computers (I know I could do so much more than this but oh well)
iCloud for phone backups. My iPod Classic holds all my music and goes with me pretty much everywhere, so I can't see the point of turning on the iTunes Match stuff just yet.

I think that's it? I wasn't aware Skydrive was actually up and running - I was under the impression that was one of those "next big things" for Windows 8.

jungleroomx

Mike Danger wrote:

Google for email, calendar (through iCalX, even though I hate 10.7 iCal), and bookmarks (through Chrome Sync)
Dropbox for saving stuff to print at the library later and quickly transferring stuff between computers (I know I could do so much more than this but oh well)
iCloud for phone backups. My iPod Classic holds all my music and goes with me pretty much everywhere, so I can't see the point of turning on the iTunes Match stuff just yet.

I think that's it? I wasn't aware Skydrive was actually up and running - I was under the impression that was one of those "next big things" for Windows 8.

Skydrive has been up and running for quite a while. Even supports streaming video/audio playback, and automatic media backup through WinPho. When I go back to college later this year I plan on getting a Win8 tablet so I have a nice continuous Office platform on all my devices (Office integration is slick).

So yeah, it's already there. Been there for several years (Beta in 2007). I've had my acct for 2 years, which is why I'm really surprised anyone even cares about iCloud especially with it being restricted to Apple productivity apps, and Skydrive works with just about any file.

Seeks

Dropbox, works on everything just about.

There is also OwnCloud if you've got access to a *nix machine and don't trust anyone else to host your data.

*edit: Strictly speaking, a *nix machine might not be necessary, but it'll make things easier. You need Apache, MySQL/SQlite/The other SQL that I just keep mispronouncing as 'Postergel', PHP extensions for your server, etc.

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Nirakone

Is anyone doing the dropbox beta test? You'll get up to an extra 5gigs of storage for your trouble.

Also if anyone has a sugarsync ref code, would love you to bits if you pm me one.

Fiskav

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Nirakone

info about the dropbox beta test: forums.dropbox.com/topic.php?id=54396&replies=360

jungleroomx

Skydrive is updating for W8.

2GB files, both a Metro app and a desktop application, and rumors of paid storage sizes up to 300 GB.

admanb

Cleveralias wrote: »

I don't know if this is the proper place for this but wth - Is there any way to have my Ios device only list the music that's currently available on it instead of my entire library that's stored on Icloud ? The issue isn't that it takes long to download any given track - which only takes seconds, but that I have a ridiculously huge collection of poorly labeled tracks that is a PITA to sort though - even if I go to "albums" it will list every partial album even if its only single track . For that reason I usually only ever put a small portion of my library on any given device, but with Icloud it now forces me to sort though the entire library, even if it's not available locally.

@Cleveralias - Settings > Music > Show All Music > Off.