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My understanding is that Dropbox only ships deltas over the network.
This page claims that the deltas are the only thing transmitted:
Efficient sync: only the pieces of a
file that changed (not the whole file)
are synced. This saves you time.
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Unfortunately yes. The request to resolve this issue is pretty high in the Dropbox Votebox. Please vote for it.
You could try alternatives to Dropbox like Wuala or SpiderOak. In these applications the shared space is taken only from the user that started the sharing. The privacy features are better too.
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This would completely defeat the point of peer-to-peer downloading. The whole idea is that distributed nodes are downloading and uploading parts of the file in question, without using a central server. Using a web hosted server to download your torrents will use up lots of that server's resources, which a host is unlikely to want. Additionally, you would ...
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Windows Live Mesh does this, and it's free. I've used it for sync'ing large projects of source code between my office and home office, and it worked very nicely. It operates via the "cloud" (i.e. it gives you free online storage), and you can specify which devices you want to connect to that cloud repository.
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Flickr
Pro Account US$24.95 a year
Unlimited photo uploads (20MB per photo)
Unlimited video uploads (90 seconds max, 500MB per video)
The ability to show HD Video
Unlimited storage
Unlimited bandwidth
Archiving of high-resolution original images
The ability to replace a photo
Post any of your photos or videos in up to 60 group pools
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From Wikipedia:
Office Live Workspace is currently not
supported on Office 2010. In May 2010,
it was announced that Office Live
Workspace customers would be moved to
Microsoft's SkyDrive service, which
offers 25GB of storage and the ability
to view and edit documents through
Office Web Apps.
See also:
Office Live Workspace team blog: ...
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http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/web-apps/
Create a great looking document in Office and then switch easily from working on it on your PC or in the browser
Upload documents to use in Office Web Apps
If you have Microsoft Office 2010 you can upload documents directly to your Windows Live SkyDrive from Excel, OneNote, PowerPoint, and Word. On the ...
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Ask an important question of yourself. Do you need backup or online replica? Sound similar, but they're not the same thing.
Backup services enable you to revert to older versions of files e.g you accidentally save changes to a file, backups enable you to recover deleted files, backups enable you to permanently archive files safe in the knowledge you can ...
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Well you could as you say create a new account to put the data in, the other option is Google Vault. I assume they are not a new customer, in which case wait until this service is available for existing customer pre August 2012.
With Vault, users can delete email from their inbox when it starts getting full, Google vault retains all email and does not have ...
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The easiest way, which still uses the Blogger interface for uploading, is to sign up for 2nd Google account, and give that account author (or even administrator) rights to your blog: this works for now because Google account storage limits are per account, not per flesh-and-blood person. It may have some downsides, though, if you want to be a verified ...
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Coming directly from the FAQ, yes, you are able to - using a secret link.
Q: Can I share folders with contacts who do not use Wuala?
A: Yes, of course. Simply create a secret link and send it to your contact.
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No. For that particular feature you might want to consider Dropbox.
Take a look at this comparison: http://techsplurge.com/3485/dropbox-amazon-cloud-drive-detailed-comparison/
To share your files:
Go to Your Cloud Drive.
Select the check box next to the file you want to share.
Click Share from the More Actions drop-down menu, and then copy the URL. You ...
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This is not the intended purpose of github. It's intended for management/perusal of software source-code (and related assets).
Please also see this article: https://help.github.com/articles/what-is-my-disk-quota
For standard online storage, I would look at Dropbox, SkyDrive, Google Drive, Amazon S3, or an online backup solution.
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It is not as easy as Dropbox or similar services for that purpose.
The free accounts can only have public repositories, so you would also need to pay to keep your private documents on there. Dropbox and such do provide this for free.
The more public nature of Github makes me assume takedowns would be more frequent for illegal content sharing.
It is not ...
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I suppose you can. Wikipedia states the following:
share files with unregistered users, through a keyed hyperlink
As long as you use the 'keyed hyperlink', you should be ok.
Users on Wuala's support forum back this up:
Das ist schon ok. Wenn ein File zu oft abgefragt wird, gibt es aber
eine Bandbreitenbeschränkung im Webinterface.
Translated: ...
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A workaround from google (last dot point under 'solutions') is to use mail delegation to allow one email account to access two inboxes:
The next workaround involves setting up mail delegation to create a
new account for the user but with the ability to switch to view
messages in an archive account. To do this:
Rename the primary account ...
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The GMail docs specifically mention that you should avoid having a catch-all account. I assume that you have a Google Apps for Business account, so your best alternative is going to be breaking up your submissions into separate target accounts (citydesk@, photos@, whatever).
You can also use a Google Group to capture the email submissions. This makes ...
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Well, if they don’t have access to the 100GB Dropbox account, how could they upload anything to it?
As for sharing the files, you could use Google Drive. See the How to share man page for instructions.
Also, if you need this for a limited period of time and you don’t want/like Google Drive, you could use the free trial option of YouSendIt.
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Making a private password protected blog on posterous.com (no, I'm not being paid by them nor am I trolling!) is a great way to share videos in an attractive and practical way. Students can also comment on the videos and develop conversations etc around the videos which is a but nicer and more aesthetically pleasing than just using a Dropbox link. Also, ...
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Seriously, your description and your questions are unrelated. You cannot compare Google tracking, any big government plot and using any online storage.
I will retain your question because it is interesting though.
You can encrypt your data before sending them to the cloud. Several services offer all-in-one solution like Secret Sync described by How-To ...
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I use Dropbox to backup and sync files. It's available cross-platform which is handy as I use it on Windows, Ubuntu, and Mac machines. They give you 2GB free, and charge for anything more than that.
Box.net has similar features.
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I think this review of back-up/cloud storage services might help: http://online-data-backup-review.toptenreviews.com/index.html
I personally use SugarSync for short-term repositories (their feature set is a bit richer than that of DropBox) and Mozy (which as far as I understand uses a highly-efficient differential/delta system) for large files and ...
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You can try Windows Live Skydrive, there are desktop interfaces for it, such as Gladinet Cloud Desktop or SDExplorer.
There is also:
Sugarsync
Zumodrive
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I use JungleDisk to back up my laptop to an Amazon S3 account. The JungleDisk app runs locally, and watches your selected folders and files for additions and changes, and uploads new and changed files. The app can be set to encrypt your files before they are uploaded, which is a useful security feature as only you will know the encryption key.
With S3 ...
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