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Soylent Brice

(8,308 posts) Sun Dec 11, 2011, 03:07 PM Dec 2011

can anyone recommend a good cloud service for PC to smartphone (DROID)

i've used HomePipe before. not using that any longer.
tried Tonido. software you download for your PC was buggy as hell (for me at least).

any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

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can anyone recommend a good cloud service for PC to smartphone (DROID) (Original Post) Soylent Brice Dec 2011 OP

Dropbox TroubleMan Dec 2011 #1

excellent, i'll check it out. question though: Soylent Brice Dec 2011 #2

FTP Server/Client? mwooldri Dec 2011 #4

I use dropbox too. lumberjack_jeff Dec 2011 #3

Another vote for dropbox toddaa Dec 2011 #5

TroubleMan

(4,866 posts)

1. Dropbox

Reply to Soylent Brice (Original post)

Sun Dec 11, 2011, 05:27 PM

Dec 2011

Has a free service with a limit of 2GB. It's always worked great for me.

https://www.dropbox.com/

Soylent Brice

(8,308 posts)

2. excellent, i'll check it out. question though:

Reply to TroubleMan (Reply #1)

Sun Dec 11, 2011, 05:33 PM

Dec 2011

the cloud services i'm looking for are ones that basically mimic the capability the blackberry automatically offers, which is just basically being able to access your home PC through your phone.

are you aware of anything like that where there isn't a space limit?

i basically just wanna be able to access my home PC through my droid, really.

mwooldri

(10,390 posts)

4. FTP Server/Client?

Reply to Soylent Brice (Reply #2)

Sun Dec 11, 2011, 08:18 PM

Dec 2011

Run an FTP server on your home PC, if needs be use a dynamic DNS name service like dyndns, and put an FTP client on the droid.

That way files can be grabbed from your home PC, the space limit is the size of your disk drive on your home computer.

Not really a "cloud" solution

lumberjack_jeff

(33,224 posts)

3. I use dropbox too.

Reply to TroubleMan (Reply #1)

Sun Dec 11, 2011, 06:30 PM

Dec 2011

like it.

toddaa

(2,518 posts)

5. Another vote for dropbox

Reply to Soylent Brice (Original post)

Sun Dec 11, 2011, 08:50 PM

Dec 2011

I've rooted my phone and Titanium Backup includes a sync with dropbox, which works slick.

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