OWNCLOUD MAC OS X SERVER PC

The ownCloud sync client shares any directory you want with the server You can share any directory on the client machine, including network shares (Figure 1).

The client creates an ownCloud directory, and any files that you copy into this directory are automatically uploaded and synchronized with the server.

OWNCLOUD MAC OS X SERVER PC

Use the sync client to share and synchronize files and directories between any Linux, Mac, or Windows PC and your ownCloud server. This is the #1 cloud project to watch, in my occasionally humble opinion. There is an active and growing developer and user community, and improvements are coming thick and fast. The server runs on Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows, and it has clients for desktop and mobile platforms. You can easily set up and manage data storage and sharing, and shared calendars and contacts. It is still young and has rough edges, and has a way to go to achieve its ambitious goals, but it is already useful and exceptionally easy to use.

OwnCloud is an open-source effort to put control back in our hands. 'Solutions' like letting Facebook insert its tentacles into all of our online activities are less than attractive. So we're juggling multiple accounts, watching services come and go (MySpace, anyone?), exposing our personal data to vendors who claim to own everything - and we have no rights. Mom's on Facebook, Grandma's on G+ and Flickr, and Dad thinks if it's not on Goodreads it's not worth bothering with. So far, though, this has been as elusive as pink unicorns and rainbows as vendors cling to lock-in and incompatibility. While they're at it, I'd like them to provide pink unicorns and rainbows too, which seem about as probable as everything else ownCloud is promising.īut a unified, friendly method of controlling our own stuff is a natural evolution of life online. ownCloud also wants to give us the ability to mash up and connect data from different providers, while maintaining privacy and security. Karlitschek is now the CTO of ownCloud, Inc.) The goals of ownCloud, as laid out at the KDE conference, are ambitious: easy cloud setup and management, and ubiquitous access to your data from multiple devices wherever that data may be - on local storage, hosted storage, or even on social networks. OwnCloud was launched at Camp KDE in January 2010 by its founder, Frank Karlitschek.

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