Tag: icloud

  • First Impression Review of ownCloud 4

    First Impression Review of ownCloud 4

    Everyone has gone cloud these days. All the big companies are offering it. So it comes as no surprise then that individuals would want their own cloud too. And for those people there’s ownCloud! I installed ownCloud 4.0.4 in my shared hosting account. It worked on the second try (it would have worked on the…

  • My backup ate my password (or did it?)

    My backup ate my password (or did it?)

    Imagine the situation, I’m hurtling down the highway and I’m walking through the Carbonite iPhone app with my wife, looking for data we know is sitting on a password encrypted file back at home. Carbonite offers the options to log into your filesystem via a computer browser, or to access your files directly via the…

  • Google’s Dropbox competitor will reportedly launch in April

    Google’s Dropbox competitor will reportedly launch in April

    The famed, mysterious G-Drive is apparently finally coming to the internet! There have long been reports since 2006 that the G-Drive, used internally at Google as Platypus, was coming. It’s hard to imagine that the initial, free, limit is 1 GB when services like Drop Box offer 2 GB and Sugar Sync offers 5 GB.…

  • New Dads and Priceless Photos

    New Dads and Priceless Photos

    Whether you’re using an iPhone or an Android, it doesn’t really matter anymore, between iCloud and Google+ features, all those thousands of family photos you took are actually pretty safe these days. Apple and Google have actually done all a great favour by storing our priceless memories online and made them retrievable from a trusted…

  • The Lion, The iPhone and the Cloud

    Today Apple held its annual Worldwide Developer Conference and announced it’s latest release of their iOS mobile operating system. Here are some of the big lines from Steve Job’s announcement: NOTE (Pictures and quotes are all from Apple.com) iOS 5 Round-up from Apple’s WWDC The conference led off with Lion, the latest release of the…