Future of technology is in the cloud, and the great wars to conquer that new territory have begun.
Amazon and Google started the war on online music services and Apple joined the
war by announcing iCloud. But music is not the only thing that people put on the cloud. There are documents, photos, and
movies, with lots of cloud locations to
put those files, including Dropbox, Amazon , Google Docs, Apple iCloud, and personal FTP accounts. But one of the biggest problems of
using cloud servers to save your files is that you
have to manage them one by one. If you have
ten different cloud accounts, you have to login to
ten different servers to manage your files.
Wait, luckily, there’s Otixo. This service will help you manage your cloud accounts from one place. Collecting The Clouds Start by signing up for the service. Don ’t use a fake email address because Otixo will send the
activation link to that address, and you can ’t start before activating your account.
Start by signing up for the service. Don ’t use a fake email address because Otixo will send the
activation link to that address, and you can ’t start before activating your account. after logging in, you can start managing your
cloud accounts by adding them one by one to
Otixo. Currently the supported cloud services are: Dropbox, Box.net, MobileMe (apple's), Google Docs, and other online storage services which use the WebDav protocol
or FTP. Hopefully there will be more services added to the list in the future. to add a cloud service, click on one of the icons
on the list. Otixo will ask you to give a name for
that account. You can give any name you want,
but it’s advisable to use a name related to the service, so that later on, you will have no trouble
telling which account is which.
Adding WebDav and FTP accounts requires you
to fill in more than just a “Display Name” field. The next step is authorizing Otixo to access the
account. Click the “Authorize” button and log into the account, then give Otixo permission to connect with the
account. You will see your cloud service appear on Otixo ’s web-based file explorer. To add another cloud
service, click the “New Service ” icon above the file explorer and repeat the process. all the added cloud services are listed on the left
pane of the explorer. I discovered that you can
only add one Dropbox account to the list.
otixo’s file explorer acts similarly to a normal desktop file explorer. You can go inside a folder,
open a file, copy and paste, and do other basic
file/folder actions.
Another great feature of Otixo is the ability to
access the account from your computer desktop.
It means that you can add your cloud services to
Otixo and access them from your computer’s file explorer as if they were just another drive. You can find detailed steps on how to set up
Window Explorer to access Otixo by clicking the
“Otixo on the Desktop” link above its file explorer.
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