Online file storage

Recently, I received an email notifying me that Yahoo! Briefcase is shutting down.

If my memory serves me right, the last time I uploaded a file to Yahoo! Briefcase was like 3 years ago. Naturally, I login and browse through the files I’ve in the briefcase. I have my college diploma major project, some HTML/php pages and some image files there, quite interesting that you look back at the work you have done 3 years back, I still remembered vividly how I struggled through endless nights to deliver a VB program for my diploma’s major project. Okie, enough of traveling back to memory lane…

Anyway, Yahoo! back then offered 30MB of storage, I am kinda curious on how online storage has evolved and did some searching.

Skydrive by Microsoft – 25GB storage. One major turn down is that you can’t upload folders. Ah, one more turn down for me, in Firefox, you don’t have the ‘drag and drop’ to upload feature.

In Firefox or Chrome, you get this.

Where else for IE.

No, I wouldn’t browse 10 times for 10 files I want to upload and I wouldn’t switch to IE for this purpose as well. So Skydrive is not for me, but anyhow you could just zip it and upload.

I found this Firefox extension – Gspace, quite suitable for me as most of the time I’ll have my gmail opened, it utilizes your Gmail storage and upload files there. When you open up Gspace, it appears as a tab inside your Firefox, it looks much like a FTP client.

Basically you just drag and drop, and it will appear in your Gmail inbox.

There’s load more of storage online services. There’s rumors saying that Google online storage GDrive will be launched within this year, by then it will be judgement day for all the other online storage services.

For now, let’s stick to what we have offered. Click here to see a detailed comparison chart by LifeHacker.com.  Alternately…let’s just load all the files into your 2GB pen drive  and attach it to your keychain