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New JungleDisk iPhone App & iPad Contest

Tuesday, March 30th, 2010

JungleDisk iPhone App JungleDisk, the popular online backup service which stores your files with Amazon S3 (read our JungleDisk review), has released an app for the iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad. Now, you can view your photos, download important documents, or listen to your mp3 collection while you’re on the go.

In addition to releasing their app today, JungleDisk is giving away an iPad! Simply answer via Twitter, What do you want to access anywhere? and include @jungledisk and #jungledisk in your tweet. There will be two drawings on April 6th and April 9th.

Tags: iPad, iPhone, JungleDisk
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Golden Opportunity from Mozy

Friday, March 19th, 2010

Did you find a pot of gold on St. Patrick’s Day? No? Well, don’t worry, we’ve got one for you. You can save over $35 with this special Mozy Promotional Code.

Click Here to get this special deal!

With this special promotional code, you’ll get 20% off your Mozy subscription. What this means is the monthly Mozy service is only $3.96. For a 1-year subscription, you’ll pay $43.56, or $3.63 / month. And for the biggest savings, get 2-years for $83.16, which is only $3.47 / month!

Use this Mozy promotional code and you can have unlimited online backup from Mozy for just $3.47 / month – get started today!

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IDrive Contest Returns

Friday, March 19th, 2010

IDrive iPad Giveaway After announcing, then canceling, their iPad contest, IDrive resumed their giveaway, with a few more steps this time to enter.

Basically, you need to be using IDrive – either a new user, or an existing one. Then you have to follow @IDrive_Online on Twitter and tweet that you’re an IDrive user. You can tweet once / day to enter.

Get started now – signup for IDrive and Tweet your entry!

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IDrive Cancels Contest

Thursday, March 18th, 2010

Crying Baby Just two days after announcing a huge iPad giveaway, IDrive pulled the plug on their contest early this morning:

The rules to enter the contest were quite simple:

sign up for an IDrive Online Backup account (either a 2GB free account or a paid account), download the IDrive Online Backup software and Login. This will automatically schedule backup of your critical data, which you can customize. You must be 21 years of age and above to be eligible. Proof of age will be required before receiving prizes. ONE ENTRY PER PERSON. US RESIDENTS ONLY.

What doesn’t make sense is how IDrive determined “limited interest” in a contest where the only way to enter was to create an account. Perhaps they didn’t see a dramatic increase in customer sign-ups, like they expected? Or maybe the first two winners didn’t even know they entered a contest when they installed IDrive?

Whatever the case, IDrive throws a number of contests, but this isn’t the first time one of theirs ended ugly. Hopefully they’ve learned a few things, and we’ll see a revised contest from them soon.

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MozyHome NOT Coming to Windows Home Server (WHS)

Thursday, March 18th, 2010

Rumors started flying a couple days ago that Mozy is Working on a Windows Home Server Software Client for their unlimited MozyHome service. At that time, we didn’t report on it as there was little proof to the claim, other than an email from an unnamed tech support employee:

Our Research team is working to develop a client for Windows Home Server for MozyHome customers. Once it is developed you can switch back to MozyHome and back up Windows Home Server.

However, when I reached out to Mozy to get an official statement, they replied:

Mozy supports Windows (Home) Server with its MozyPro offering, not MozyHome. We do not have any plans at this time to include server support in our MozyHome offering.

So, if you’re running WHS, don’t expect to be able to use MozyHome anytime soon.

Tags: Mozy, WHS
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Win an iPad from IDrive!

Monday, March 15th, 2010

iPad IDrive, known for their MacBook Pro and IDrive Portable contests, is now giving away 17 new iPads! That’s one a day from March 15^th through March 31^st. Entering the contest is easy, and free:

You must be 21 years of age or older to be eligible. One entry per person. US residents only.

That’s it! So sign up for IDrive Online Backup and enter to win an iPad today!

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15% off SugarSync

Wednesday, March 10th, 2010

SugarSync Logo Backup and Sync provider SugarSync is offering 15% off their 60- and 100-GB plans this month only! This puts the price of the 60-GB plan at $84.99 / year ($7.08 / month), and 100-GB for $127.49 / year ($10.62 / month). You have to buy the entire year to get this great discount.

SugarSync supports real-time backups, multiple computer synchronization of files, collaboration and sharing, along with the ability to stream your MP3s and view your photos online.

When we wrote our SugarSync review, we were highly impressed with the service. It’s much more than just online backup, and getting 15% off is a rarity (we haven’t seen a discount like this before). So if you’ve been thinking about extending your free 2-GB account to a paid subscription, now’s the time to act!

Get 15% off a 60-GB SugarSync subscription or get 15% off a 100-GB SugarSync subscription.

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Backblaze Release 1.0.6 Now Available

Wednesday, March 10th, 2010

Backblaze released version 1.0.6 of their client software this month, and users should be seeing the rollout very soon. To improve performance, the new version Reduces network traffic between client and Backblaze data center.

There are also improvements to the Mac client, handling errors during installation and other small fixes.

Read our Backblaze review for more about this top-rated online backup service.

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Gigmax Online Storage Launches

Tuesday, March 9th, 2010

We learned that today, Gigmax is officially launching their Windows online storage service. Gigmax claims remote access, file sharing, and off-site backup as a few of their features.

Gigmax.com, LLC was established in August 2005 with the intent of making it easier for people to store and transfer files without having to carry around any tangible object, such as USB flash drives.

Also, rather than emailing files to yourself and then having a bunch of different emails with a bunch of different files, the goal of Gigmax.com was to have users just store all their files in one place.

You can get 2GB for free, or pay up to $24.99 / month for 150GB, with other options avilable in-between.
Gigmax pricing system

Gigmax’s “Community” section is interesting. There, you can see the most popular shared file, the top users, and stats on the various types of files shared. Currently, images, executibles, and a few mp3s are in the top 25 downloaded files.

While Gigmax lists off-site backup as a feature, the process isn’t automatic, like other online backup services. You can only save the files to your Gigmax drive, whereas services like Mozy or Backblaze will backup all of the data on your computer.

If you’re looking for some online storage space, Gigmax may be for you. Just be careful what files you have set as private, versus public.

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