Filed under: Windows, Web services, Beta, web 2.0
Mount remote storage, use web apps as local apps with Gladinet
by Brad Linder Dec 1st 2008 at 4:05PM
You can also mount your Google Picasa Web Albums and Google Docs folders as if they were local folders, allowing you to upload, download, and access documents and images stored on Google's servers as if they were on your desktop.
But the ability to mount remote storage as a local folder is just the tip of the iceberg. You can also use Gladinet to launch web based applications like Google Docs, Google Calendar, or ThinkFree Doc, XLS, or PPT viewers in a standalone window as if they were desktop apps.
Last, but certainly not least, you can use Gladinet to mount folders on remote computers as local folders.
[via ReadWriteWeb]
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Peter said 5:28PM on 12-01-2008
Looks very interesting, but without any sort of encryption either in transit or on the remote servers it doesn't make it very practical for anything other than file sharing.
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Jash Sayani said 9:41AM on 12-02-2008
Love it! SkyDrive support !!
PS: Read abt this on Lifehacker yesterday...
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jerry said 11:43PM on 12-02-2008
the encryption was done from end to end:
(a) the credentials are stored locally in your user profile with Windows Data Protection (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms995355.aspx)
(b) authentication with different service providers (such as google) is done with SSL
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