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I just had a stroke of genius. What if, one could harness Gmail's huge amount of server space and somehow have it host your files as if a web server? I don't personally know if it could be done.
 
oh.. well i wasn't first with it, but as long as it is possible. i have an old hp from 8 years ago, and i doubt it will handle this, but i will give it a try..
 
I haven't read the link yet, but what would be the URL to the files so you can access them either via a URL or to put an image up in the tags?

Or are you simply wanting to use it as an "external HD"?
 
tech4all said:
I haven't read the link yet, but what would be the URL to the files so you can access them either via a URL or to put an image up in the tags?

Or are you simply wanting to use it as an "external HD"?[/QUOTE]From reading the article, I believe it is the latter. If somebody wrote a suitable device driver so that Gmail storage looked like an external or network disk to Mac OS X, the same thing would work on a Mac. If.
 
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