Access Files Stored Online via Windows Explorer
Gladinet is a free Windows application that runs on your desktop and offers easy access to files stored online or across remote PCs. The company's goal is to provide a single platform from where you can manage files regardless of where they are stored.
While the company says it is like "building bridges among digital islands," we say it is an easy way to use Windows Explorer to drag and drop documents from the Web to your machine.
To manage your digital content, Gladinet makes all of your files accessible from a virtual drive mapped into your Windows Operating Environment, letting you update and modify files stored on a variety of services such as Google Docs, Amazon S3 and Windows Live Skydrive.
Once updated, Gladinet uploads the new version back to its original home.
In addition to giving you easy access to files scattered across multiple machines and in the cloud, Gladinet's two other main features are remote access and on demand sharing of files with friends.
Watch the ten minute video introduction to Gladinet below, or download the PDF if you'd like to learn more.
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Nice tool, but why add Remote Desktop, Web Directory and other stuff? It'll be bloatware in no time.
KISS folks, KISS!
The latency is always a problem for cloud computing. Imaging you have a big external hard drive at home storing your 8M per picture kind of files. Moving an album full of 8M files to local is painful. doing it over RDP cound be more efficient if you just want to do it in picture viewer inside RDP.
Think about this, human don't really care about data, all we care about is presentation. A local paintshop can do the presentation for you locally, same as the picture viewer in the RDP, whoever can do it faster wins. Think of RDP as a universal presentation software?
The whole point of Gladinet is to engage the cloud onto the desktop. In the first wave, the online storage services lead the charge. In the next wave, maybe online apps. With faster network and online storage becomes mature, the Internet is indeed the computer.
Jerry
Interesting tool, but is it even worth the effort. Do we need another app?
nice tool and will help us to easily access our online storage
It depends on the need. we are in the stage of observing two competing trends, one is online storage services becoming more popular, the other is hard drives are becoming bigger each year.
2 years ago I am completely satisfied with backing up my family photos on several home PCs. After Katrina, that kind of satisfaction didn't existing any more. Now I am using Picasa, Amazon S3 and hard drives. So there is a need to move data from local to Amazon to Picasa and if it can be done from one single place.
All is good accessing web applications online from Gladinet ,the concern for me is the sharing of folders and accessing data on remote PCs .
I've been utilizing Dropbox for a couple months now and it has been flawless. It's also cross-operating system so I use it to move files between my Mac and Windows.
Gladinet is about giving people choice. If you want to use Google Picasa in Windows Explorer, fine. If you want to use Amazon S3, fine. If you want to use SkyDrive, fine. Another big piece of the Cloud Desktop is the integration of online applications to Windows Explorer. If you want to right click a doc file and open with Zoho, fine.
Otherwise, talking about synchronization tools, there are Microsoft Groove, Live Mesh, Live Sync, Syncplicity and more.