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Google Launches Google Drive Cloud Storage Service
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Yeah, I don't trust Google for #$%& nowadays, but in all fairness, most of that type of thing is just legal boilerplate and there as CYA. No need to overreact. Google would be stupid not to protect themselves with that kind of wording.
Still, I'd love to see a comparison to what Apple, DropBox or MS has in their user agreements in that regard.
Depends on how large your library is. SkyDrive was 25GB, but is now 7GB. Everything else is lower unless you are willing to pay. You can locate your iPhoto Library file to any networkable/cloud storage. Option-Click iPhoto on your dock and it'll ask what library you want to open, point it to the new location and you should be good to go (repeat on all Macs). iCloud offers much of what you're asking for free, but not quite everything (mostly just photo syncing on all iOS and Mac devices). You may experience a slower experience in iPhoto if your internet speeds are not up to par. And you'd have no access during internet access.
If you do it, you'd almost have to pay for a much larger storage space.
That would be different for Google how? Google has built their entire company on copying ideas. Hell, they weren't even first to make a search engine.
Hmm. Im seriously considering it. My iPhoto library is getting to be around 60gb. That's 1/2 my SSD HD space. This may offer a reasonable solution, and make the need for frequent backups irrelevant
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If anyone is looking for client-side encryption for at least _some_ files, I like the combo of Dropbox & BoxProtect (free) - it's pretty much an encrypted file system in your Dropbox, not sure how it handles sync problems though.
That is not how it works, computers get faster. In 10 years, if I find some old encrypted data of yours, it might just take me a minute to decrypt it. The contents may still be current enough to sabotage whatever career you're going after.
That is not how it works, computers get faster. In 10 years, if I find some old encrypted data of yours, it might just take me a minute to decrypt it. The contents may still be current enough to sabotage whatever career you're going after.
As much as I use Google, it does sometimes freak me out in this capitalist country that a company seems to offer so many great services for free. Maybe just paranoia or maybe they'll one day pull the rug out from under us all.
You make a good point here. That's one of the benefits of having a password manager - frequently changing passwords should be a simple exercise (since you don't have to remember them anyway).
That's actually not what I'm saying. My point is processing technology can conceivably (and most likely will) outstrip even the strongest of encryption methods over time - so what takes a century to break now could be done in hours or maybe even minutes or less say a decade from now. Granted this is all hypothetical but not beyond the realm of possibility.
Ergo, there's no excuse for sloppy systems.
I think it makes sense to implement security at every level possible. What business does one app have being able to read the contents of another without permission from that app or the user? It's a flaw.
Lastly, DropBox has had security issues in the past. No reason to say they won't get hacked in the future.
LOL - According to the terms, Google owns and reserves the right to use EVERYTHING on your Google Drive!
http://cl.ly/1W2h1A163p0W2A3C0M0q
Have fun having your info taken
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I normally don't care a whole lot about my privacy online, but that is just too far.
That's from Google's general TOS, not a policy specific to Google Drive. I would assume it's for things that are publicly published like Youtube, Google+, or discussion groups (I assume a similar policy is in place here), but they really need to clarify with specific GD TOS so people know exactly what's going on.
If dropbox doesn't have the option to give specific people read only access to a file or folder, I'd say that's a big problem that they need to fix.
Pavlovian reflex to anything not Apple.
What would you expect from iapplelovers? Magic.
And scary.
Wow, offline access to files is really the worse around.
You need to use Chrome (it stores the files somewhere deep in the browser - great) and then it only offers offline viewing (not editing).
Even then viewing only works for those documents you recently edited and only documents and spreadsheets (not presentations, etc).
Ony works for one account too.
You need to use Chrome (it stores the files somewhere deep in the browser - great) and then it only offers offline viewing (not editing).
Even then viewing only works for those documents you recently edited and only documents and spreadsheets (not presentations, etc).
Ony works for one account too.
I meant to say No access during internet outage.
Anyways, if you don't mind your iPhoto library to be local, buy a NAS (Network Attached Storage). Buy one that has RAID for faster access speeds. Seeing how you have an SSD, you might hate going back to the slow norm.
You can access NAS's from off-site using VPN or similar (Apple's Airports allow such access), but again, it's going to be slow unless you have 20Mb/s + internet on both ends, and even then it'll slow down considerably.
Sorry to the rest of the MacRumors posters for being off topic here!
LOL - According to the terms, Google owns and reserves the right to use EVERYTHING on your Google Drive!
http://cl.ly/1W2h1A163p0W2A3C0M0q
Have fun having your info taken
via @sydlawrence
Wow if that's not self-serving legalese I don't know what is. Well at least they're being honest about their intent. No Google Drive for me thank you very much!
Sorry but you don't have to lecture me about what a "derivative work" is - I deal with these issues every day as part of my job.
Besides, Google states THEY would have the right to create such works out of your OWN files, which is unacceptable...it has nothing to do with a simple waiver of liability.
LOL - According to the terms, Google owns and reserves the right to use EVERYTHING on your Google Drive!
http://cl.ly/1W2h1A163p0W2A3C0M0q
Have fun having your info taken
via @sydlawrence
Looks familiar...
iCloud TOS
http://www.apple.com/legal/icloud/en/terms.html
All storage service providers have similar clauses.
Here are SkyDrive's terms. (Covered under Windows Live TOS.)
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-live/microsoft-service-agreement
Sorry, but if you understand a "derivative work" as a mere re-sorting of unchanged files, you definitely need to go back to law school - they are explicitly talking about "translations", "adaptations" and the like, for obvious purposes of privacy snooping and extensive advertising.
In other words, Google's self-appointed rights are nothing short of absurd to any reasonable lawyer...and this is why I WON'T use it. You are free to do as you wish, of course.
Edit: not even Apple's TOS for iCloud are that bad - they would also be able to adapt content submitted to iCloud, but "solely for the purpose for which such Content was submitted or made available" and limited to areas "accessible to the public" or your friends.
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First they gave me a free search engine
And I didn't speak out because because I wanted to find stuff on the internet
Then they offered up a nice email service
And I didn't speak out because I could get my email from anywhere because it was all web based
Then they offered up a nice browser.
And I didn't speak out because it was fast and had a nice, minimalist design.
Then they came for me.
And I couldn't speak out because there was really no reason to considering everyone already knew everything about me because all those nice free services they offered was really a front for marketing analytics so they could target advertise directly to me when they send me to the Google Work Camps.
A little late to the cloud storage game, but I guess better late then never (not that I will ever use it).
I would like to see FREE cloud services hosting. Give me storage, a VM and a database, for FREE!
I guess cloud services hosting is only Microsoft and Amazon's game, and certainly not free. I wish I could sign up for the 6 month trial of Windows Azure without providing billing information. Obviously, I am joking about the free hosting BTW.
I would like to see FREE cloud services hosting.
Give me storage, a VM and a database, for FREE! I guess cloud services hosting is only Microsoft and Amazon's game, and certainly not free. I wish I could sign up for the 6 month trial of Windows Azure without providing billing information. Obviously, I am joking about the free hosting BTW.
And yet, as just pointed out, they're very similar to the terms that MS and Apple use for their cloud services.
No actually it's not the same - the key differentiator in the iCloud TOS being "Content on areas of the Service that are accessible by the public". Google makes no such distinction.
Nothing is free.A little late to the cloud storage game, but I guess better late then never.
I would like to see FREE cloud services hosting.
I guess cloud services hosting is only Microsoft and Amazon's game, and certainly not free. I wish I could sign up for the 6 month trial of Windows Azure without providing billing information.
You will pay for it in $$$ or your information.
As for Google being late to the cloud storage party... hardly.
YouTube (cloud for video), Google Docs (cloud for documents), Picasa (cloud for pics).
It's all merging into one service. Although I don't see YouTube going away anytime soon.