Hasta La Gadget!

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Lately there have been all kinds of file storing and sharing services popping up. It was just several weeks ago that we wrote about Dropbox, and gave out 50 invites to readers (with many more still trying to get an invite) so that they too could checkout the service. Now yesterday, HP announced that they were getting into the online storage arena by launching a new service called Upline.  In our opinion, this is probably one of the more significant happenings in online storage because a big name like HP is backing it and will surely use their resources to promote it. Another reason it is significant is because while they charge a small fee per month, all subscribers are given unlimited storage.

When I say a small fee, it really is reasonable. Their plans are all unlimited, it just depends on how many users you want to be able to access and use the service.

• Home Plan – available to 1 user for $4.99 per month
• Family Plan – available to 3 users for $6.99 per month
• Professional Plan – available to 3-100 users for $8.99 per month

Because it’s unlimited, you can upload all you’d like whether it be documents or photos to share with friends and family. The other feature that is enticing is that because it’s online storage, users will have access to all of their files no matter where they are, as long as they have an Internet connection. It appears as though they’re not too concerned about bandwidth limitations because nowhere on their site could we find any information on it.

Features include:

• automatic backup
• 1-click restore
• access from anywhere
• share with friends
• management dashboard (Professional users only)
• priority support (Professional users only)

In the past we’ve seen services like DivShare come in and offer unlimited storage for free and then we’ve seen them scale back because it was too much to handle. We can’t see HP yanking away the unlimited storage from users for a couple of reasons. First of all, they are charging users for the service. Granted, it’s not a lot of money that they’re charging, but users are still paying. Secondly, HP is a big company and they’ve been around for a while. At the end of the day, they’ve got the resources needed to keep Upline going.

While reading the FAQ, I noticed a few interesting facts. The first is that if you have about 5GB of files you want backed-up, it will take almost a whole day to complete it.  They say that they backup at about 150-250 MB per hour so that one GB takes about 4-5 hours to complete. Another interesting fact is that if you make a small change to a file, Upline will only backup the changes that have been made and they call this differential backup.

Overall, we’d say that this is a rather promising backup and file sharing storage solution.  If you’d like to get started, just go here and you’ll see the different plans with the option to “Buy Now.”

Source: TechCrunch

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This article was written on June 26, 2007 by CyberNet.

When DivShare launched their last big update I was a little skeptical about them ditching their Premium plan in favor of their new DivShare Direct. With the DivShare Direct you are able to link directly to the files that you upload as well as put your own logo on the DivShare Flash video player (as seen to the right). The downside to the plan was that your account had some new limitations added to it:

• $4.95/month – 5GB of storage and 50GB of data transfer
• $9.95/month – 10GB of storage and 150GB of data transfer
• $19.95/month – 25GB of storage and 400GB of data transfer
• $49.95/month – 75GB of storage and 1,000GB of data transfer

They limited both the amount of data transfer and the storage you had on your account, both of which are unlimited for free users. They did, however, say that once you data transfer limit was exceeded that your account flipped into "free mode" so that visitors would still be able to download your files, but they would be taken to the DivShare site just like a free account does.

At the time there was no way to get around the storage limitation that they imposed on you though, which was a frustration that I had. The whole point of me using DivShare is that there is no limit, but "upgrading" my account would change that. I gave them some feedback saying that I should be able to choose which files get applied to the storage quota, which would overall mean that my account has unlimited storage.

They apparently liked my feedback and implemented the new system this afternoon. Now you can choose which files or videos are applied to the DivShare Direct plan that you pay for. The best part is that you will still get the FTP access and a 2GB upload limit for all of your files, which is exactly what I wanted!

I was going to purchase a DivShare Direct plan today, but then they also announced that starting tomorrow (and tomorrow only) they will be offering a free month of their DivShare Direct plan. There is no word on whether you will have to make a purchase in order to get the free month or which plan they will be offering for free, but I’ll be keeping my eye on their site to see what they have to say about it.

DivShare Homepage

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This article was written on July 10, 2007 by CyberNet.

We know that many of you use DivShare for all of your file sharing/hosting needs, and we also know that many of you are on Facebook. That’s why you’ll be happy to know that DivShare is now takin’ on Facebook! Just yesterday they made the announcement, and now you have yet another easy way to share files with your friends right from Facebook.

Thumbs up to…

• The fact that you can upload your files and post them on your profile for your friends to see.
• You can send the files to specific friends on Facebook
• You can post your files to the news feed – if there’s something you want all of your friends to see like a video, song, or image, this is the perfect way to notify the masses.

Thumbs down to…

• Can’t manage and access uploaded files on Facebook
• When you click on a file to view it, you’ll be taken to DivShare to view it instead of viewing it from Facebook. It might be nice if it would open in a small pop-up instead of a whole new window.
• Box.net seems to have a better interface for viewing files on Facebook

This is what the uploader looks like on Facebook– note your options for sharing:

This is what will appear on your profile after you’ve uploaded files:

Overall it’s a great app for Facebook and another smart move by DivShare to make their service to accessible to everybody. And just as the stand alone service, you have unlimited storage up to 200 MB per file!

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