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by Libra Monkee Tue Mar 06, 2007 10:58 am
Let's you use your free GMail space as a remote drive from 'My Computer'.
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by zaxrex Tue Mar 06, 2007 12:28 pm
That has coolness. I can't believe that it has been out for a year and I haven't caught it yet.
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by hotsam Tue Mar 06, 2007 12:35 pm
So this just fills your inbox with files?
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by complacent Tue Mar 06, 2007 12:47 pm
You can also create encrypted "drives" and such... for pretty much
every OS platform out there... Pretty kewl stuffs. I think I tried this sometime last year.
Free, encrypted backups are a pretty neato idea if you ask me.
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by Mr Kleen Tue Mar 06, 2007 1:14 pm
and let's face it: Google will get all of your data
eventually ...
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by chicken n waffles Tue Mar 06, 2007 1:37 pm
Mr Kleen wrote: and let's face it: Google will get all of your data
eventually ...
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by snaab Tue Mar 06, 2007 1:50 pm
chicken n waffles wrote:
Ben should be shaking in his boots, what with all those useful, secretive documents on his harddrive.
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by Libra Monkee Tue Mar 06, 2007 4:11 pm
hotsam wrote: So this just fills your inbox with files?
In Gmail you can set a filter so everything skips the inbox and goes to the archive.
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by VIPGarage Wed Mar 07, 2007 5:07 pm
thanks for the info man. that can really help me out!
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by Libra Monkee Mon Mar 12, 2007 6:04 pm
complacent wrote: You can also create encrypted "drives" and such... for pretty much
every OS platform out there... Pretty kewl stuffs. I think I tried this sometime last year.
Free, encrypted backups are a pretty
neato idea if you ask me.
Wait a minute, I just caught this...
neato ?!?!?!?!/1
What, is it 1953?
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by ElZorro Tue Mar 13, 2007 1:57 pm
Note on this one, make a 'throw away' account for this, as Google has taken to detecting and shutting down accounts when folks use stuff like this.
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What, is it 1953?