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Here’s a list of services that will store store your files online.

GMail- Send yourself important files as email attachment to a GMail account or use GMAil Drive to create a webased drive on your computer. >7GB/ FREE

SkyDrive- 25GB of online Storage. FREE

ADive- 50GB FREE

Amazon S3- Unlimited storage for a very small per GB transfered and storage fee. S3 has no user interface you must use a third party program like Jungle Disk (PC, Linux or Mac) or Gladinet (PC only, FREE).

Carbonite- Ultimate backup solution. Automatically backup an unlimited amount of data for $49.95 per year.

esnips- Have not used. 5GB storage. FREE!

Godaddy- 50MB for $6.99 or less per year. 10GB $13.95 per year.

Mozy- 2GB FREE! $4.95 per month unlimited.

Several of these can be used with GadinetCloud Disktop that I wrote about in the last post.

Called “Skydrive” a part of Microsoft’s “Windows Live” it allows you to store and share up to 25GB of data (documents, photos and other media files). “Windows Live Photo Gallery” syncs automatically to Skydrive which is terrific. What I am a very disappointed by; there is no method to transfer other files by a desktop application like it does with “Photo Gallery”. In my opinion this decreases the usefulness of “Skydrive” a lot. Right now you have to go to the website. Click “Upload Files”, click on “Browse”, click “Open” and then click “Upload”. This is so old-school! Not Web 2.0 at all. What it is really good for is sharing very big files with others. Files up to 50MB can be uploaded and shared.

Over all I think it’s a good start. The photo sharing function and it synchronization with “Photo Gallery” works great! I think Microsoft may someday do something with desktop synchronization. At lease I hope so!

My rule number 1 is: “If you don’t have two copies of a file on different devices you don’t have that file!” Here are some programs to help you to that end.

Carbonite

PC only

Unlimited storage for one computer.

Easy install! My Documents and Desktop set to backup automatically. Right-click to select other items to backup.

$49.95 per year for the first computer.

Jungle Disk

Puts a virtual harddrive on your computer using Amazon’s S3 service.

$0.15 per GB-Month of storage used
Data Transfer
$0.10 per GB of data uploaded
$0.17 per GB of data downloaded

Much harder to configure than Carbonite.

GMail Drive

Puts a virtual harddrive on your computer that save your backed-up data to a GMail account.

The downside of GMail Drive is that it is only 7GB. The upside is it’s free!

Yes you can host your podcast (or any audio content) for the web) for free with Podserve (one of the Big In Japan. The other great thing about Podserve is that it create an RSS feed for you so you don’t have to figure out how to do that. I guess if your podcast got real popular they would ask you for money or something.