Many Files - Will Greplin Help?

I’m absolutely sure of the fact that the amount of information we’re grabbing daily is not just stunning, it seems really unimaginary sometimes. And how can it even be possible at least to remember, where exactly we’ve decided to save this or that file of ours?

File synchronization may become one of the ways out, on the one hand, and this niche has been already filled with numerous competitors, many of which really know what they’ve own their popularity for. Well, if you’ve been reading my blog, you probably know about my personal favorite 4Sync)))

Let’s now check another possible method to get all your data together and keep it at one place, I’m not talking about file-sharing sites, like RapidShare or 4shared, though the latter provides much storage space for free. I’m rather talking of specific services gathering your files from everywhere, every site you’re using, including your Google Docs, LinkedIn account, etc.

This market field is now pretty much empty, yet I now for sure about one decent representative – it’s Greplin. In case you’ve never heard of it (which is weird, but whatever))), the service gathers your files from different sites, so you can access them in a simpler way. Moreover, Greplin has already introduced the new convenient feature, which enables to find the needed file even without remembering its exact name just by entering any keyword, which will definitely occur in the file you’re looking for. Nice, ha?

Of course, Greplin is nice. But there’re as always the particular flaws you can find. First of all, the service hasn’t actually been modified to gather your files from your accounts at file-sharing sites and those documents or anything else, which you simply store on other computers can’t be accessed via Greplin. So, basically, you should combine using your syncing, file-sharing services with Greplin to be have all your data at hand. That’s a bit confusing, don’t you think?

Ugh, for now we can only dream of things becoming easier in usage, what if the file-sharing grandees introduced their own inside ‘gathering’ feature? At least one less site to use…

Let’s see who’s gonna be the smart one here? 4shared, MegaUpload, or…?


Stay cool)
Andy

Steve Jobs and Apple – The End?

Have you heard the news? Well, if not, I’ll tell you now: Steve Jobs Apple CEO has officially declared his retirement from the company.

I’d say, it’s a disaster, but it’s seemingly even worse.

Why so? For those, who don’t remember how it all ended the last time Mr.Jobs left Apple for some time, I’ll remind you. Those were the times, when the company’s sales dropped to a considerable extent, and the doubts about the cloudless future of iProducts first appered among the experts.

What’s now?

Even though, Microsoft is desperately trying to get to the top of users’ popularity ratings, its chances to beat Google are vaguer, than ever, as the latter is always several steps ahead (with its Google+ and Motorola Mobility purchase).

As for the perspectives of Apple on the market, I can’t even say, what my predictions are, as there’s, certainly, a possibility that the new CEO Tim Cook will be as talended, as his forerunner, but Steve Jobs is, undoubtedly, much more, than just a talented man. His charisma has become one of the key-factors in creating Apple’s image of the most innovative company in the world. It’s much due to his efforts, that the enterprise has become the most expensive one in the industry now.

It’s almost the same as with Mark Zuckerberg being the embodiment of Facebook, or Einstein’s being the best of the best in Theory of Relativity.

Anyway, guess the retirement of Steve Jobs is the beginning of the end of the personalized companies’ era. It will, probably, become more usual in future, that the software rivals will not be associated with epic people, but rather with epicly essential services, they provide us with, like the security of our digital data, the convenience of apps’ and gadgets’ usage.

Even for now, do we know, who the head of Motorola Mobility is? - No. Do we know the owners of grandees on the free file-sharing market, like RapidShare, 4shared or MegaUpload? - No. Though, it goes without saying that their CEOs are not less talented, than Mr.Jobs, for instance.


Yes, it’s the end of the era, guys. Hopefully, the new epoche won’t be disappointing for us, the software users.


We’ll see.

Stay cool)
Andy

A bit about My Mobile Memory and Free File-Hosting

Ugh, it’s been almost 2 weeks, since I’ve written my last post, guys, and I’m so-so-so sorry for being an ass and leave you for such a long time.

Of course, as always, I’ve got a good excuse. I’ve had the best vacation in my life, all spent at one of the most amazing seashores in the whole world. For those, who are interested in where exactly I’ve been, I can reveal this secret, Cuba, Cuba, Cuba.

Whereas my friends are now watching the craziest photos in my camera and tasting the cigars, that I’ve brought them, I have some time to share if not the review, but a sort of my attitude to one of the points in the magical digital world of software.

To be honest with you, guys, it’s been a long time, since I’ve become the owner of an Android smartphone, yet, I’ve always been worried that the amount of storage space in it will never be enough for me, and the next photo, which I’m gonna take, will definitely become the last one on my memory card, or even, that I’ll have to delete some of the photos before saving this one. Well, not this exact one, of course, as this very one, the potential photo-masterpiece is so unique, that it’s just impossible to capture something, likewise amazing.

I used to count Megabytes left in my phone memory and my memory card space for quite a while, before I realized it couldn’t last longer, or better to say, it shouldn’t last longer.

That was the day when I’ve come across the file-hosting services to keep files and hand and access them anywhere without a necessity to store them on my Android phone.

For what it takes, since the very first acquaintance, I’ve tried a great deal of various file-hosting sites, from MegaUpload and RapidShare to 4shared and Turbobit, for instance.

All of them, surely, have their own benefits (though 15GB space from 4shared is more, than good for a lame free user, like me, who’d rather kill himself, than pay for a service))).

Yet, I was pleasantly surprised, when I’ve found a featured 4shared app for my Android phone. Really, at first it seemed, like a very good joke, that I no longer had to open my browser, enter the addresses and log in again and again to use my account at a file-hosting site. But having downloaded the app, oh, btw, I forgot to tell you what it’s called, 4shared Mobile Android, I’ve found that it’s just a good way to get to your files without unnecessary efforts.

Till now, I’ve just got one more folder in my Android phone, though this folder is, probably, larger, than all my other folders, which I used to have in the past.

Anyway, again, it’s none of my business, of course, but can you imagine, how convenient it would be, if all competitors on the market followed this good example of 4shared?


Stay tuned, guys
Andy