Looking for a Replacement for Apple’s Disappearing iDisk?

A new user recently emailed us to point out that My Docs Online, using WebDAV and the Desktop App, is working nicely as an alternative to MobileMe and iDisk, which will no longer be available after June.

Here’s what he said to us:

I just signed up for your service after evaluating many others over the last few days.  Your interface seems closest to what I had with the iDisk under Apple’s Mobile Me.  I upgraded to Lion and also had to find something before June 30 when the iDisk goes away.  

I use the OverTheAir app for my iPhone and iPad2 to get to your site, I use the “go to server” (WebDAV) method on my OS 10.6 Mac computer and the desktop app on my Lion (10.7) Mac.

- Bud Cothern

Apple’s iCloud is very different from iDisk. iDisk is (soon to be was) a remote server that is organized like a typical drive, with a folder tree, and accessible via standard, open methods like WebDAV. iCloud is closed, and accessible only via apps using the interface provided by the operating system. It’s another outgrowth of iOS, where the location of files is generally hidden, and files are accessible from the apps that handle them. Mountain Lion for the Mac will work much the same when it is released later this year.

That means there’s no way to use the iCloud storage outside the services and apps that make use of it,  such as iPhoto, iTunes Match, iWork, and AppStore apps that makes use of the iCloud Storage APIs.

Those who prefer their cloud storage to more open, flexible, and accessible from non-Apple products will need to look elsewhere, and as this user found, My Docs Online can do the job.
If you’d like to try it for yourself you can sign up for a no-obligation, no-credit card needed trial here.

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Sharing Really, Really Large Files

Balloons taking off!
Let’s face it – there are lots of places online where you can share files.  But when it comes to sharing large files, really large files, files over 2GB in size the number of places you can go gets much smaller quickly.

File storage companies have different limitations on file sizes, with some capping file sizes at as little as 100 MB.  Some companies offer single file size limits of 1 GB and most of those who go larger stop at 2GB.

At My Docs Online we have no file size limitations.  The only limit is the size of your account, as long as you are using the Desktop App.  Using the desktop app is what allows us to exceed the browser based upload limitations of 2GB in file size.    The My Docs Online desktop app runs on both both Windows and Macs so if you need to transfer really big digital files give us a try.

Now – what are the practical realities of transferring a file of that size?  A pretty good cable modem upload speed is between 2 –  5 Gbps  so uploading a 2 GB file should take between 1 – 2 hours at those speeds.  Download speeds are normally quite a bit faster so downloading the file may only take 25% of the time it takes to upload it.  If you’re curious as to what your internet connection speed is you can test it at http://www.speedtest.net.

Sometimes, you really do need to get the file there today and when that’s the case you need something that will do the job for you.  If you’re in that position I hope you’ll give My Docs Online a try by signing up for a free trial, running the desktop app and uploading your file.

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