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Using gmail as storage
By Martin English | November 12, 2007
Google has recently increased the storage limit for Gmail users, who have now roughly four Gigabytes at their disposal, with the option to add even more storage that can be purchased in the account settings. The maximum amount is currently 400 Gigabytes of storage which would cost $500 per year.
Most users will probably be happy with the four Gigabytes and can use a small software called Gmail Drive to add their Gmail storage as a drive in Windows. To do that the user needs to install GMail Drive and enter his login details when clicking on the new drive letter. I suggest to save this information unless you want to enter the username and password everytime you want to access the drive.
An alternative is the Gspace extension for Firefox steps in. The interface looks similar to most ftp clients out there, it should not be a problem getting used to gspace quickly. A nice feature is the ability to play multimedia files right from your gmail storage. Gspace offers a player and a photo mode for this. Just switch to either mode and you can browse and play or view those files directly in your browser.
Currently Gspace does have problems with some special characters, displaying them incorrectly. Also, note that Google might put a temporary ban on the account if more than 1 gigabyte is transferred in 24 hours.
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