Filed under: Windows, Macintosh, Linux, Office, Freeware, P2P, Beta, web 2.0, Windows x64
Tonido does cloudless private file sharing, collaboration, and more
by Lee Mathews Mar 18th 2009 at 10:00AM
Not everyone wants to work in the cloud, but keeping a group connected by other means can be a little tricky. Tonido's cross-platform desktop suite makes the process about as easy as it can get.
Tonido installs as a server app on your primary computer (Linux, Mac, and Windows downloads are available). Once configured, users simply connect to the machine with their web browser by browing to http://host:10001. You can, of course, customize the port number - Tonido makes that easy as well, with uPNP support to take care of router re-configuration. Access can be limited to local IPs only or opened up for WAN access and you can select how much bandwidth.
The suite include four main components: workspace, file sharing, photo gallery, and jukebox. As I've been experimenting with the beta I've been taking screenshots - which you can view in the gallery.
Tonido installs as a server app on your primary computer (Linux, Mac, and Windows downloads are available). Once configured, users simply connect to the machine with their web browser by browing to http://host:10001. You can, of course, customize the port number - Tonido makes that easy as well, with uPNP support to take care of router re-configuration. Access can be limited to local IPs only or opened up for WAN access and you can select how much bandwidth.
The suite include four main components: workspace, file sharing, photo gallery, and jukebox. As I've been experimenting with the beta I've been taking screenshots - which you can view in the gallery.
The suite offers a wide range of useful features and is fully extensible. Key out-of-the-box features include:
Tonido already looks to be an excellent option for SOHO users and web workers. Tonido is beautifully simple to get up and running, and the CodeLathe blog has several informative posts that will help you get started.
If you didn't make the jump before, here's the gallery:
- basic text messaging and notes
- calendar and task list
- contact management
- support for multiple groups and workspaces
- file sharing with per-user access control
- detailed usage reports and history
- streaming audio via the jukebox
- play jukebox playlists in an external application
- rich photo gallery with slideshow feature, commenting, rating, and tagging support
- ability to install new apps (once available) from the Tonido plugins screen
Tonido already looks to be an excellent option for SOHO users and web workers. Tonido is beautifully simple to get up and running, and the CodeLathe blog has several informative posts that will help you get started.
If you didn't make the jump before, here's the gallery:
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Prof. Michael Stoll said 10:48AM on 3-18-2009
any tips for an alternative, that runs under mac os x?
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Lee Mathews said 10:49AM on 3-18-2009
Michael- Tonido has a Mac download, it's cross-platform. Give it a shot!
Prof. Michael Stoll said 11:03AM on 3-18-2009
lee, thank you very much. the logo beside the article didn't indicate it and i will give it a try for sure!
ZeRo said 2:15PM on 3-18-2009
OMG this is exactlly what i have been looking for. You are awesome.
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Gilbert Palau said 9:31PM on 3-18-2009
Yeah well its mac osx intel. They don't support PowerPC because according to them and I quote "We are sorry that we couldn't support Tonido in Power PC. We didnt have the resources", which I think it's BS because apple makes it easy to make apps universal.
My main server that I use for things like this is a Power PC G5. I can't use it there... I tried it on my laptop and it works like a charm, but its useless to me if I can't run it on my power pc g5.
my .02 cents.
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muscle.o.love said 11:25PM on 3-18-2009
Is this for free? I can't see pricing info anywhere on their site. Free beta doesn't alway mean it will be free once out of beta. Does anyone know?
TIA
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Gilbert Palau said 12:08PM on 3-19-2009
I'm pretty sure this is not free. They are in beta still so they havent announced a price structure yet. I asked but they havent responded to my tweet...
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Madhan K said 8:48PM on 3-20-2009
Tonido will be free for Personal use. There will likely be a Tonido premium version with additional features.
Madhan (Founder, CodeLathe LLC)
http://www.tonido.com
Gilbert Palau said 12:38PM on 3-21-2009
Well if its like that then its awesome... Do you guys think that before you launch there will be a Universal version for Mac?
Madhan K said 3:23PM on 3-22-2009
It is hard to say, if we get a lot of customer requests, we might consider building a universal binary for Tonido.
The reason it was not done already is the effort needed to port Tonido to compile and build on PowerPC, which is somewhat time consuming considering the number of thirdparty libraries that Tonido builds on. But we will do it if there is sufficient interest.
sunshine said 11:13PM on 3-19-2009
I tried the photos app in Tonido with couple of friends. I really liked the automatic sync feature.
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info guy said 8:01PM on 3-24-2009
seems promising. Where can i get beta invite?
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Katie Jones said 1:15AM on 3-27-2009
Good concept. This is exactly what I have been searching for. Workspace application is awesome. For the past few days, it has made our team's life easier... Good going....
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andrew mort said 11:36AM on 3-30-2009
It will be interesting to see what other applications are offered. Ability to access data is not novel but the fact that it seems very easy to use while being secure is. I will be keeping an eye on this
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Vandy Rajesh said 10:56AM on 4-19-2009
I have been using TONIDO and this is an excellent platform for file sharing and is an easy tool to manage. I really like this tool. Great job!!
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tonyflaton said 3:55AM on 6-01-2009
Looks great but useless to me unless a universal osx app is in the pipeline! Needs PowerPC support!
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