Sunday, October 14, 2012

Missing your iDisk? OpenDrive is an easy-to-use substitute

Missing your iDisk? OpenDrive is an easy-to-use substitute -

When Apple killed MobileMe and iDisk I was pretty unhappy. It was great for quick small backups, and an easy way to share files with friends by giving them access to a public or password-protected folder.

There are plenty of sync/backup solutions out there, like MediaFire, Dropbox, SugarSync and others, but I really liked the desktop mounted iDisk, that looked and acted like an external drive. Other similar options include Google Drive, SkyDrive and, of course, Apple's iCloud, but none functioned quite the way iDisk worked.

This weekend, I took a look at OpenDrive, which does a fine job of doing what iDisk used to do ...

(Via The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW).)

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