They explained that no one used it and therefore, going forward, they didn’t want to have to put resources into developing it. The Box player worked great – until they crippled it. I don’t care about that one way or another. I am not interested in allowing people to download my files. In fact, When I linked to my playlists on Box, allowing visitors to play the music there, it was a virtually unused feature. It was just a way to make my blog a little more interesting. I want to allow visitors to my blog to be able to play short playlists that I’ve created. I simply wanted to upload a bit of music and, depending, a document or two. SpiderOak was mentioned as having some positives, although ease of use wasn’t one. I can’t speak in the same technical language folks here speak in, but I just had a look around – not much in the way of plain English language anywhere – to see what I might use to replace my Box.net, for certain purposes anyway. Also see:įiled Under: Technology Tagged With: online backup Reader Interactions For $10 per month, Dropbox gives you 50GB of storage. The 100GB option is half the cost of DropBox. Spider Oak offers 2 GB for free (same as DropBox) and 100GB for $10 per month. When you update files in a local folder that is being shared, it automatically updates the share room with the new version of the file. Users can download files by clicking on the download link on the website. You can then add items to the share room, so you can share one folder from your PC and another from your Mac, etc. Basically you create a share room that has a SpiderOak URL. SpiderOak lets you share documents through “Share Rooms”. The web browser access may be very convenient depending on what data you are storing. Still, those pictures of your company picnic probably don’t represent a huge security risk. This is much less secure than using the client where the entire file is encrypted and decrypted locally and Spider Oak recommends against using the web interface for highly sensitive data. Once your session is closed, your password disappears from memory. This is done by storing your password in memory to decrypt the files and send it to you over your web browsers SSL connection. They had a lot of requests for web access, so they have created the ability to access files through a web browsers. This means that Spider Oak can’t see whats in your files or even what your folders and files are named. Securityįiles stored on Spider Oak’s servers are encrypted on your local computer and stored encrypted on the server. So you can backup all your music, all of your movies or all of your emails based on what type of files they are–not where they are stored on the computer. In addition to backing up specific folders, SpiderOak lets you backup files by type. For example, you can tell SpiderOak to backup all of your documents to the server and keep your music folder synced between your laptop and desktop. Spider Oak lets you backup arbitrary folders and lets you specify certain folders that you want to sync. “I put something in the folder on Computer A and it shows up on that folder on Computer B. This works well and provides a very simple mental paradigm. The upside is that it lets you do all kinds of things that aren’t possible with DropBox.ĭropBox gives you a folder that you can sync across computers. The downside is that SpiderOak isn’t something you are probably going to have your grandma setup for herself. However, where Dropbox seems to be concentrating on ease of use and simplicity, SpiderOak seems focused on creating powerful software with many different options. SpiderOak offers a service similar to Dropbox.
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