Wednesday, June 11, 2008

Remote Storage for Documents - Gmail

So here I am, getting tired of working back late in the office, but hate the hassle of having to VPN in from home, run RDP or map network drives.

So what's an easy way to move a couple of documents between work and home?

After a quick search for online storage, I stumbled upon a neat little Gmail extension that allows you to use your Gmail email account as a file storage dump.

Basically, you install the Gmail Drive extension to your machine, configure your login details and booyaaa, a storage dump without having to sign up to new products, manage new user accounts and passwords.

More info and links to download here: http://www.viksoe.dk/code/gmail.htm

I'm aware that this is several years old, but surprisingly still work fine. I have received a couple of errors here and there when trying to access the drive, but a second attempt immediately after the error, all appears to work fine again.

I'm stilling running Windows XP, not sure of it's compatibility with Vista....

Enjoy your unlimited file storage with Gmail. :)

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