Speaking of GMail, 6 invite available here. As usual, email me off list if interested. Thank you, Scott DeLagrange System Analyst CIBA Vision Corp. Greg Reese <gareese@xxxxxxxx To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx m> cc: (bcc: Scott Delagrange/CV/Novartis) Sent by: Subject: [THIN] Re: Fwd: FW: GMail Drive shell extension thin-bounce@freel ists.org 10/18/2004 08:43 AM Please respond to thin nice! On Mon, 18 Oct 2004 13:39:31 +0100, Joshua Owen <joshua.owen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > FYI, seen as how so many of you have gmail accounts, thought this might > be of interest. > > GMail Drive shell extension > > GMail Drive is a Shell Namespace Extension that creates a virtual > filesystem around your Google GMail account, allowing you to use GMail > as a storage medium. > > GMail Drive creates a virtual filesystem on top of your Google GMail > account and enables you to save and retrieve files stored on your > GMail > account directly from inside Windows Explorer. GMail Drive literally > adds a new drive to your computer under the My Computer folder, where > you can create new folders, copy and drag'n'drop files to. > > Ever since Google started to offer users a GMail e-mail account, which > includes storage space of a 1000 megabytes, you have had plenty of > storage space but not a lot to fill it up with. With GMail Drive you > can > easily copy files to your GMail account and retrieve them again. > When you create a new file using GMail Drive, it generates an e-mail > and > posts it to your account. The e-mail appears in your normal Inbox > folder, and the file is attached as an e-mail attachment. GMail Drive > periodically checks your mail account (using the GMail search > function) > to see if new files have arrived and to rebuild the directory > structures. But basically GMail Drive acts as any other hard-drive > installed on your computer. > > You can copy files to and from the GMail Drive folder simply by using > drag'n'drop like you're used to with the normal Explorer folders. > > Because the GMail files will clutter up your Inbox folder, you may > wish > to create a filter in GMail to automatically move the files (prefixed > with the GMAILFS letters) to your archived mail folder. > > Please note that GMail Drive is still an experimental tool. There's > still a number of limitations of the file-system (such as total > filename > size must be less than 40 characters), and it doesn't make full use of > the secure internet protocols available. > ******************************************************** > This Weeks Sponsor RTO Software > Do you know which applications are abusing your CPU and memory? > Would you like to learn? -- Free for a limited time! > Get the RTO Performance Analyzer to quickly learn the applications, users, > and time of day possible problems exist. > http://www.rtosoft.com/enter.asp?id=320 > ********************************************************** > Useful Thin Client Computing Links are available at: > http://thin.net/links.cfm > *********************************************************** > For Archives, to Unsubscribe, Subscribe or > set Digest or Vacation mode use the below link: > http://thin.net/citrixlist.cfm > ******************************************************** This Weeks Sponsor RTO Software Do you know which applications are abusing your CPU and memory? Would you like to learn? -- Free for a limited time! Get the RTO Performance Analyzer to quickly learn the applications, users, and time of day possible problems exist. http://www.rtosoft.com/enter.asp?id=320 ********************************************************** Useful Thin Client Computing Links are available at: http://thin.net/links.cfm *********************************************************** For Archives, to Unsubscribe, Subscribe or set Digest or Vacation mode use the below link: http://thin.net/citrixlist.cfm ******************************************************** This Weeks Sponsor RTO Software Do you know which applications are abusing your CPU and memory? Would you like to learn? -- Free for a limited time! Get the RTO Performance Analyzer to quickly learn the applications, users, and time of day possible problems exist. http://www.rtosoft.com/enter.asp?id=320 ********************************************************** Useful Thin Client Computing Links are available at: http://thin.net/links.cfm *********************************************************** For Archives, to Unsubscribe, Subscribe or set Digest or Vacation mode use the below link: http://thin.net/citrixlist.cfm