Box Launches Private Sync Client Beta for Personal Users
A sync client is something that many users of cloud hosting services have come to expect to be offered from the services that they use in recent times. We have seen established players like Microsoft or Amazon release a synchronization client for desktop and mobile users to compete on the same level with services like Dropbox or the newly launched Google Drive.
Box is an established service that is making its content management and work collaboration features available for regular people, and businesses. While business and enterprise customers of Box had access to the Box Sync desktop client for almost two years, personal users did not have access to the software until now.
The three core features at the time of launch were:
- Selective synchronization. This basically lets you select folders that are already stored online that you want to sync with the desktop computer.
- Sync of collaborative folders
- Sophisticated conflict management.
Take a look at the introductory video that Box released in 2010 to introduce Box Sync for business customers.
And it is exactly this client that will make be offered to personal customers of the service as well. For now, select Box users have been invited to beta test the client.
Box Sync for business is only available for 32-bit and 64-bit Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X operating systems. To be precise, it is compatible with Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, and Mac OS X 10.6 and 10.7.
It is not clear yet when the Box Sync client will be made available for all Box users, but it is likely that this is going to happen sooner than later. Free users at the time of writing get 5 Gigabyte of storage space which they can increase to up to 50 Gigabytes. Box has run several promotions in the past that allowed users to increase to that size for free. The maximum file size is linked to the available storage. 5 Gigabyte storage users can upload single files with a size of up to 100 Megabytes. Users who have purchased more storage have a limit of 1 Gigabyte per individual file.
Box furthermore offers document editing capabilities in the cloud and file sharing for free users of the service. (via Caschy)
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Doesn’t Windows 8 know that www. or http:// are passe ?
Well it is a bit difficulty to distinguish between name.com domains and files for instance.
I know a service made by google that is similar to Google bookmarks.
http://www.google.com/saved
@Ashwin–Thankful you delighted my comment; who knows how many “gamers” would have disagreed!
@Martin
The comments section under this very article (3 comments) is identical to the comments section found under the following article:
https://www.ghacks.net/2023/08/15/netflix-is-testing-game-streaming-on-tvs-and-computers/
Not sure what the issue is, but have seen this issue under some other articles recently but did not report it back then.
Omg a badge!!!
Some tangible reward lmao.
It sucks that redditors are going to love the fuck out of it too.
With the cloud, there is no such thing as unlimited storage or privacy. Stop relying on these tech scums. Purchase your own hardware and develop your own solutions.
This is a certified reddit cringe moment. Hilarious how the article’s author tries to dress it up like it’s anything more than a png for doing the reddit corporation’s moderation work for free (or for bribes from companies and political groups)
Almost al unlmited services have a real limit.
And this comment is written on the dropbox article from August 25, 2023.
First comment > @ilev said on August 4, 2012 at 7:53 pm
For the God’s sake, fix the comments soon please! :[
Yes. Please. Fix the comments.
With Google Chrome, it’s only been 1,500 for some time now.
Anyone who wants to force me in such a way into buying something that I can get elsewhere for free will certainly never see a single dime from my side. I don’t even know how stupid their marketing department is to impose these limits on users instead of offering a valuable product to the paying faction. But they don’t. Even if you pay, you get something that is also available for free elsewhere.
The algorithm has also become less and less savvy in terms of e.g. English/German translations. It used to be that the bot could sort of sense what you were trying to say and put it into different colloquialisms, which was even fun because it was like, “I know what you’re trying to say here, how about…” Now it’s in parts too stupid to translate the simplest sentences correctly, and the suggestions it makes are at times as moronic as those made by Google Translations.
If this is a deep-learning AI that learns from users’ translations and the phrases they choose most often – which, by the way, is a valuable, moneys worthwhile contribution of every free user to this project: They invest their time and texts, thereby providing the necessary data for the AI to do the thing as nicely as they brag about it in the first place – alas, the more unprofessional users discovered the translator, the worse the language of this deep-learning bot has become, the greater the aggregate of linguistically illiterate users has become, and the worse the language of this deep-learning bot has become, as it now learns the drivel of every Tom, Dick and Harry out there, which is why I now get their Mickey Mouse language as suggestions: the inane language of people who can barely spell the alphabet, it seems.
And as a thank you for our time and effort in helping them and their AI learn, they’ve lowered the limit from what was once 5,000 to now 1,500…? A big “fuck off” from here for that! Not a brass farthing from me for this attitude and behaviour, not in a hundred years.