Telstra has revealed the addition of almost one million new mobile services in the six months to December 2011, but Sensis revenues plummeted 24 percent in 12 months.
The icing on the cake is
that for an extra $US1 a month, Jungle Disk Plus offers the ability to
access your files from any web browser without the need to install
software or plugins. You can upload and download files through the web
interface as well as create new directories, but you can't edit files
in a browser. This is awesome. It means that my house could blow up,
taking all my computers and my network storage drive with it, and I
could sit down at any computer with internet access and pick up work
where I left off. When you work for yourself, and have regular
deadlines to meet, such an insurance policy certainly gives you peace
of mind.
Amazon's
S3 is used by large organisations as the backend of a web presence, but
its insanely low pricing combined with Jungle Disk's ease of use makes
it an excellent option for small office and home office users. Even
consumers would find in perfect for backing up photo, music and video
collections online and I'm thinking about recommending the service to a
few friends for exactly such purposes. If you can't afford to lose it,
you can certainly afford to store it on S3.
As for work,
recently I've been using Google Docs to write articles - which
auto-saves every few minutes and also offers the ability to easily jump
between computers and operating systems. I'm keen to embrace more online apps, but what makes me nervous about
using Google Docs is that I don't have an offline backup. Online word
processors such as Zoho have started to offer such features (ironically
using the Google Gears browser plug-in) but I haven't yet come across one
I'm happy with. Zoho has potential, as does Buzzword running with Adobe
AIR.
I went looking for an online word processor that could
access files within an S3 account (which could then be sync'd to a
desktop) but I didn't find anything. One would assume when the Google
Drive eventually sees the light of day it will be very similar to S3.
One would also assume it will be compatible with Google Docs. This
sounds like the best of both worlds and I'm sure it's only a matter of
time. Meanwhile, S3 and Jungle Disk have taken me one step closer to
full OS independence.
David Bass
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