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GlideOS now offers 30GB of free storage on their gDrive
The service recently bumped their free offering to a whopping 30GB -- 30 times more than what Google is offering. You can also upgrade to a premium account which gets you 250GB for $50US per year -- the same price gets you 200GB from Google.
There is a downside, of course. Glide doesn't allow just any old file - their storage is earmarked for media and documents, so you won't be uploading things like installers and archives.
To make it easier for us to get our files synced up with the cloud, Glide provides a desktop client for Windows, Mac, Linux (RPM), and Solaris/OpenSolaris (yes, really!). There's also a mobile portal which you can access from just about any smartphone.
Glide's free storage is a nice complement for netbooks with smaller SSD drives - and a solid option for sync-powered backup of your important files.
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Subscribe to commentsFredJan 15th 2010 6:39PM
SO I played around with Glide a little bit after reading this post. I am not sure what the point really is.
I mean, the Gdrive is cool, and rather self-explanatory, but the 'mother'-product of glide, generally, does not make a lot of sense. It's a pseudo OS that has some basic apps, all web-apps in reality, that run poorly compared to free native-ly run alternatives. I suppose it may work well as a portable app for a flashdrive. But again, native options will be so much better...
sethrJan 16th 2010 9:52PM
If you prefer to use native applications instead of web-based apps, Glide makes it easy to do so and syncs your files between your home and work computers and mobile phone. You can even sync desktops with other Glide users that are using native applications. Because Glide is a sophisticated rights-based platform and automatically translates file formats between devices and platforms, it is ideal for collaboration.
smthbllsmthJan 15th 2010 9:39PM
This is sort of interesting to play with if you have some time to waste, but other than the free storage for "media" I don't see point.
smthbllsmthJan 15th 2010 9:39PM
...THE point ." I don't see THE point." I think I'm getting senile.
libecoJan 16th 2010 5:56PM
I just registered and installed the desktop client. I'm quite hard to cinvince when it comes to switching to internet-bases applications. I've never left Outlook for gmail and I use Snarfer as my RSS-reader. I also don't really believe cloud-based OS will actually replace the desktop anytime soon. First we'll need to see internet speeds increase and access should be more reliable. Furtermore the applications should be better than their desktop counterparts.
Is Glide up to the task? My first impression says: NO! The way it works is just not user friendly. Each application is opened in a new tab. There're loads of icons which do not clearly show what they're for. The desktop client keeps resizing to a smaller size when I open the preferences dialog box. Also, although the website mentions Glide OS 4, the application title is GlideOS 3. I just uploaded a PDF just to test how syncing worked from the desktop. The process of doing so seems quite complicated, but actually wasn't. I also tried uploading from the web-based file manager and succeeded, however, now I don't see it in the desktop client. Finally, right-clicking the icon in the taskbar will not show any menu, just the bottom border.
So am I convinced? No, my most cloud-like application will remain dropbox, which is just much easier to use. I would love to have 30GB there though.
brettsJan 16th 2010 8:47PM
Very intuitive application. Pound for pound there are more features in Glide OS than I have seen in any web based application suite. The point of Glide is cross platform compatibility, automatically translating data between devices and platforms; and integration, all of the applications are intricately integrated creating functionality that does not exist anywhere else. Glide is intelligent storage wrapping productivity and collaboration applications around files as opposed to dumb storage solutions that abound on the Internet. The best thing about Glide though is that you can continue to use your favorite native applications like Microsoft Word and still take advantage of Glide's file synchronization, 30GBs of file storage and automated file translation across platforms. You can sync all of your desktops regardless of platform and even sync desktops across user accounts for secure collaboration. Glide is the future of cloud computing