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You remember back in the day when everything on the Internet was free (circa 1994-1998)? My local library offered free internet and email access through telnet – it was glorious. Ah, Web 0.9.23.6 Beta.

 

These days we’ve got the so-called Web 2.0 which is supposed to relive those days with tons of more free stuff, along with gradients sprinkled everywhere and HUGE buttons thrown in.

 

So, in my eternal quest for free stuff, I ran across this "hack" for OS X and immediately fell in love. You can now use box.net (very Web 2.0) just like you use .mac… except box.net gives you a gig of space for free and more space if you invite friends to sign up (with a link like the one I just used... although this post isn't about me getting invitations). All you have to do is sign up, set up a DAV on your Mac, give it your login name (for the secure connection) and you're ready to go. UneasySilence has some screenshots.

 

You can access all your files online, share them with friends, and there’s even a Windows based client for cross-OS sharing. I signed up yesterday and have been very impressed so far... and the price is certainly right. :)

 

Gotta love free stuff. Especially when it’s storage space!

 

Edit: If you're going to sign up, use one of the invitation links further down in the thread so that others (that need it) can get upgraded to 5 GB. Feel free to post your own code once signed up.

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Pippin

Pippin 0

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the sharing link function is for premium account only :)

 

does anybody know how to copy the link to download?

REVENGE

REVENGE 2

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Looks good, thanks for the info Mash. Btw, I found this while I was searchin the web. It creates a virtual drive structure over your Gmail account and allows it to be more friendly for file storage: http://www.viksoe.dk/code/gmail.htm

megavolkan

megavolkan 0

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Hey there all so excited people!

 

Is it only me who can't see the sent files under dav?

When i login wia safari ican see the files are there (even sent via dav connection) but in dav ican't.

Also i can see the folders "pictures, documents, movies" etc.

 

Any ideas?

 

(i use 10.4.6 by the way)

p3n5t3r

p3n5t3r 0

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I can't see the files i sent too. I can however see the directories, but only the original ones.

On windows I can see everything...strange!

learning_bird

learning_bird 0

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Looks good, thanks for the info Mash. Btw, I found this while I was searchin the web. It creates a virtual drive structure over your Gmail account and allows it to be more friendly for file storage: http://www.viksoe.dk/code/gmail.htm

Unfortunately this is Windows only.

Takuro

Takuro 0

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*Ahem* The gMail virtual storage drive for Mac: gDisk

nevermind1331

nevermind1331 0

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good tool.

 

again like others, i cannot see uploaded files in finder, only through the web utility, so something is not quite right.

 

good stuff tho

errandwolfe

errandwolfe 1

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To everyone who can't see their files....This seems to be an intermittent problem and nothing to do with our Macs. I was having the same issue, and did absolutely nothing to try and fix it, I looked a few hours later and the files were then showing up. I don't think it is a time delay issue though as I was able to see the files on my Windows box right away (even though the files were uploaded from the Mac).

p3n5t3r

p3n5t3r 0

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*Ahem* The gMail virtual storage drive for Mac: gDisk

 

 

gDisk is great....could someone recompile it to universal?

Colonel

Colonel 1

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gDisk is great....could someone recompile it to universal?

 

Get me the source code and I will

xtraa

xtraa 48

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http://forum.osx86project.org/index.php?showtopic=17690

 

That user managed to get iDisk to work by making .Mac point to a different IP other than idisk.mac.com. The site is in German, but if you manage to make an account, I don't think there's a file size limit. However, the server is really unreliable and doesn't allow for .Mac style syncing or anything...

 

One day we will get the perfect .Mac server clone. One day. *sigh*

 

thanks for the link, i was exactly searchin for it since I lost it somewhere between my bookmarks.

 

I can translate the site to english if you want. I used to have the gmail drive and also registered at box.net a while ago (windows xp) but this was the missing link :) So I will figure it out and post a translated howto if I am successfull. :D

xtraa

xtraa 48

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Ok, nothing to translate,

 

just follow the link and just take the ip of box.net (get it via samspade.org).

 

But it is a no go because the .mac accound does not accept an @ .

 

hmmm.

nev6

nev6 0

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Ok, nothing to translate,

 

just follow the link and just take the ip of box.net (get it via samspade.org).

 

But it is a no go because the .mac accound does not accept an @ .

 

hmmm.

yeah... I followed it all but then the whole .mac no @ kinda messed me up

 

i was thinking, what if you converted it to hex maybe?

belgrano

belgrano 0

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I wanna say thanks again to people who signed up using my link. I edited my post so other people might get the chance to upgrade their accounts.

 

 

Now let's complain a little... :)

Anybody found a solution for viewing all the uploaded files when loging into the account through finder?

velayo

velayo 0

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Here is my referral link if anybody wants to help with my invitations.

 

 

My referral link

free30

free30 1

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Velayo, I used your link to sign up, hope that helps

 

Give it go you don'y have to use it and it'll help me.

 

Edit. Thanks all

 

Free30

Takuro

Takuro 0

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Is the 10mb filesize cap removed if we get an upgrade to 5gb? I don't have 100,000 10mb files lying around.. :P

Pippin

Pippin 0

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Okay, here's your universal gDisk. :P

 

 

It opens much faster than the gDisk for PPC but I can't login??

Colonel

Colonel 1

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hmm... your right. I'll work on that. Keep trying to login though.

 

EDIT: When I compile it for Intel, it doesn't say that there are any errors. The LoginControler files are the same as the PowerPC ones. Weird...

 

EDIT: I found the bug. The plugin the lets it connect to Google is still PPC and I need to make it Intel. I'll get to it shortly

 

EDIT: I wrote an email to the creator for the plugin's source code. The best I can do now is wait.

velayo

velayo 0

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Velayo, I used your link to sign up, hope that helps

 

Give it go you don'y have to use it and it'll help me.

 

My referral link

 

Free30

 

Thanks Free30!!


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