Pogoplug -- Access your external hard drive from anywhere on the Internet
Thursday, April 30, 2009 at 7:38PM I am always on the lookout for the fastest and easiest way to share files from one's computer with clients, friends, or family. Setting up a webserver on your home computer is possible if you have enough tape on your glasses, but it can be very challenging and requires the use of Dynamic DNS capable routers, and crazy stuff like that. Now there's a gadget that makes it stupid-easy to share files, it's called the Pogoplug.
Plug any USB drive (or drives with a USB hub) into the Popoplug, register your unit with their website, and you are done. No Firewall configuring, DynDNS, port mapping, hair pulling...
If you are using it just to provide a file site for your clients, you don't even need a huge, hot, spinning hard drive, just a 8 or 16GB flash drive would be perfect! When you export your MP3 or AIFF file, just dump it to the Pogoplug drive, send your client the URL automatically generated by their software, and anyone you send it to can access that file. Better yet, you can share directories on your drive just by clicking a Share button
and optionally entering an e-mail address to send out invitations, and
you can also get an RSS feed for any shared directory. Make a folder for each of your clients, and they always know where to look for your files.
You can upload files to your Pogoplug drives via a standard-issue
clunky Web form, or--much better--use the software driver that makes
the Pogoplug emulate a local hard drive on a Mac
or Windows system. With the driver installed, adding or managing files
to the Pogoplug drive is as simple as dragging them with your
computer's file manager. Files quickly pop onto the drive over your
local network. For iPhone users, you also get direct access to your files, can stream music and video from your Pogodisks, and send files back to your Pogo from the phone.
I am dying to get one!!
http://www.pogoplug.com/
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