{"id":3295,"date":"2011-12-03T06:15:05","date_gmt":"2011-12-03T11:15:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/?p=3295"},"modified":"2011-12-03T06:16:36","modified_gmt":"2011-12-03T11:16:36","slug":"synchronize-your-files-and-folders-with-your-google-docs-accounts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/synchronize-your-files-and-folders-with-your-google-docs-accounts\/","title":{"rendered":"Synchronize your files and folders with your Google Docs accounts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Y&#8217;all know about things like DropBox and other cloud-based storage systems, right y&#8217;all? I picked  up the y&#8217;all from EB, she&#8217;s never lost her Southern drawl in all these years  since she was a little girl growing up in the South in the 1940&#8217;s. \ud83d\ude42 Some of  you use DropBox and other such cloud-based storage systems and but there&#8217;s a new  kid in town called Kumosync that just may change the way you think about online  file storage.<\/p>\n<p>You see, the problem with DropBox and the others is that  while you can safely back up your precious files and folders you can&#8217;t do  anything with them while they&#8217;re up there in the cloud. Yes they&#8217;re safe and you  can retrieve them from the cloud, but you can&#8217;t work with them. This is where  the new kid shines. Since Kumosync actually synchronizes your files and folders  to your Google Docs account (and if you have a Gmail account or two or three you  have a Google Docs account, trust me \ud83d\ude42 ). So you can work with your files from  whatever computer you happen to be using &#8211; even if you&#8217;re up visiting EB&#8217;s  closely-guarded mansion and using one of her computers. You&#8217;re welcome to use my  old broken-down but serviceable Windows Vista desktop if you like, but don&#8217;t  complain about the Pop Tart crumbs, empty Diet Rite soda cans, and cobwebs. I&#8217;m  busy and don&#8217;t have time for trivialities if you please. The point is &#8211; if you  have a device which is connected to the Internet you can access and work with  your files right from your Google Docs account &#8212; from anywhere. So you&#8217;re no  longer tethered to your home computer or laptop. Go travel the world and your  photos of your favorite restaurants are available to you 24\/7\/365 and you can  even play around with them &#8211; maybe photoshop them a little &#8211; slide an image of  EB in her cocktail dress into the scene or maybe add an armadillo to the table &#8211;  whatever you like.<\/p>\n<p>So you see, not only does Kumosync safely backup and  store your precious files and folders in the cloud, it actually lets you access  them and play around with them &#8212; even edit them from any computer anywhere even  if you&#8217;re in Michigan! And all you have to do is sign into your Gmail account  and click on &#8220;Documents&#8221; to access all the files and folders you&#8217;ve chosen to  synchronize with your Google Docs account. And you know, of course, you can have  more than one Gmail account don&#8217;t you? You can have two or three or four or&#8230;.  and they&#8217;re free. And each account gives you Google Docs and over 7GB of storage  space. So what&#8217;s not to like?<\/p>\n<p>Another cool feature of Kumosync (and I&#8217;m  getting so excited here I just had to go get another strawberry Pop Tart) if  you&#8217;re working with files on your own computer &#8211; when you change a file on your  computer that&#8217;s synchronized with Kumosync it&#8217;s instantly changed on Google Docs  too. You don&#8217;t have to do anything &#8211; it&#8217;s synchronized instantly and  automatically. Think of the possibilities! And since the program synchronizes  bi-directionally, if you change one of your synched files on Google Docs it&#8217;s  instantly changed on your computer. How cool is that?<\/p>\n<p>And best of all  Kumosync is free. It&#8217;s a small 3MB download and it works on 32bit and 64bit  versions of Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7.<\/p>\n<p>I know you think I&#8217;m  90% blather and 10% substance but I really do try this stuff out and I really do  find Kumosync insanely great. What&#8217;s not to like? Gmail accounts are free and  therefore so are Google Docs accounts &#8211; and Kumosync is free. And I&#8217;m working  for EB almost for free! Free! Free! Free! &#8216;<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a screen shot to show  you that I really do test this stuff:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2012\/kumosync.png\" alt=\"Information Avenue by Cloudeight\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And  now you&#8217;re all scratching your heads looking for the download link or some kind  of ending to this article aren&#8217;t you? Come on, admit it! OK I will acquiesce to  your demands. You can read more about Kumosync and download it from here: <u><b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fieldstonsoftware.com\/software\/kumosync\/index.shtml\">http:\/\/www.fieldstonsoftware.com\/software\/kumosync\/index.shtml<\/a><\/b><\/u> .<\/p>\n<p>Just so you know, Kumosync works in 32bit and 64 bit versions of Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7.<\/p>\n<p>How&#8217;d I do?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Y&#8217;all know about things like DropBox and other cloud-based storage systems, right y&#8217;all? I picked up the y&#8217;all from EB, she&#8217;s never lost her Southern drawl in all these years since she was a little girl growing up in the South in the 1940&#8217;s. \ud83d\ude42 Some of you use DropBox and other such cloud-based storage systems and but\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/synchronize-your-files-and-folders-with-your-google-docs-accounts\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,10],"tags":[200,1126,363,390,1591],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3295"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3295"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3297,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3295\/revisions\/3297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}