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I briefly mentioned the other day that I’m in the Omnidrive beta. I’ve wanted this for soooo long and I’m quite thankful that Nik happened to agree with something I wrote recently and took pity upon me. Everytime Techcrunch would gush about Omnidrive I’d just squirm…

I was hoping to write a full review tonight, but I’m afraid I’ll have to stall that off a bit. Been having some technical challenges and I’m not entirely sure if they’re on my side or their side. I volunteered to try anything in an email this morning. I promised that I’m reasonably bright (I fancy myself quite handy with these computer thingies) and basically said I’d be a guinea pig. Because I gotta tell you, the little taste I’ve had of how things could be it pretty exciting.

The web interface is ok. Nothing overly surprising there. But the desktop integration is awesome. For a windows machine, you end up with what basically looks like an Omnidrive “System Folder”. Treat it like a hard drive and do the usual drag’n'drop or cut and paste stuff. Things get really cool when you have the software installed on multiple machines. Like, I have it on a machine at home and a machine at the office. It’s nice to toss stuff onto this drive for storage, but it gets really slick for shuttling files around — and of course, any machine with a decent web browser can play too.

Hopefully I can work out a few kinks soon and play with this a bit more. I honestly think the Omnidrive folks are onto something incredible here.

8 Responses to “Omnidrive - This Could be Cool”

1. Vox on August 26th, 2006 12:32 am
   

   The important question is…do they have a linux client? or one in development? or at least one in their plans? If the answer is “no” then it doesn’t exist, it’s just a figment of your imagination

2. Chris on August 26th, 2006 7:33 am
   

   Hey Vox - that would be the browser client.

3. Nik Cubrilovic on August 26th, 2006 9:51 am
   

   Hi Chris,

   There are a few glitches, but with every release every weekend we keep ironging out more and more of them and keep on introducing more features. The desktop clients still have someway to go until they are what we want them to be

   Vox: Linux/UNIX client in development now, Mac OSX client being re-released tomorrow - we are very very commited to being multi-platform. We should have a L/Unix command line client within weeks

4. Chris on August 26th, 2006 9:56 am
   

   Hey Nik - both of my windows machines updated this morning, so something got knocked free last night!

5. Vox on August 26th, 2006 2:00 pm
   

   Chris: A web client for storage would drive me up a wall faster than a windows box, which is a lot to say

   Nik: Now *that* sounds better! something like the gmailFS that started circulating shortly after gmail showed up would be great…just mount the account and use it as a regular part of your filesystem….it’d make lots of linux geeks like me happy

6. Nik Cubrilovic on August 26th, 2006 9:30 pm
   

   Good to hear the updates are going through, we initially had some problem with getting that right

   0.5.4 going out tonight, so 2 releases in 2 days

   we will also post more screenshots of our new super-sexy web interface (which works in all browsers, even lynx)

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