Comments on: Is Storing Your Data Online a Reliable Thing to Do?

By: Ryan

Ryan — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 18:32:13 +0000

“What I think Google needs to develop here is some sort of tool that can sync a folder on your computer with Google Docs.” How about install Google Gears, then all your stuff is available offline.

Google Gears would work, but you constantly have to go online and offline with it in order for it to really synchronize your files. If you edited an app on the web you would also have to remember to grab those changes in your Google Gears. It would be cool if Google turned Google Gears into a synchronization tool where your files were always available offline without having to switch modes first.

anon wrote:

Live Mesh is THE app for this.

True, it's just too bad Google Docs can't directly access files on Live Mesh.

By: anon

anon — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 12:48:19 +0000

Live Mesh is THE app for this.

By: Teo

Teo — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 09:22:49 +0000

But if you have Offline enabled you have access to your files and the downtime wouldn’t had been such a big deal

By: Michael Dobrofsky

Michael Dobrofsky — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 03:02:47 +0000

That’s the downside of the cloud – you have to reply on the service provider to always be up and accessible.

By: Ian Cammarata

Ian Cammarata — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 21:28:37 +0000

“What I think Google needs to develop here is some sort of tool that can sync a folder on your computer with Google Docs.”

How about install Google Gears, then all your stuff is available offline.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 20:37:13 +0000

Cristian wrote:

That’s why you need Dropbox ([getdropbox.com])

I do like the system that Dropbox has, and the nice thing is that it mirrors the files from your local computer. It would be cool if Dropbox could integrate with Google Docs so that you could open and edit your documents stored on Dropbox, and then have them synced back to your desktop.

By: Cristian

Cristian — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 19:32:30 +0000

That’s why you need Dropbox ([getdropbox.com])