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You remember back in the day when everything on the Internet was free (circa 1994-1998)? My local library offered free internet and email access through telnet – it was glorious. Ah, Web 0.9.23.6 Beta.

 

These days we’ve got the so-called Web 2.0 which is supposed to relive those days with tons of more free stuff, along with gradients sprinkled everywhere and HUGE buttons thrown in.

 

So, in my eternal quest for free stuff, I ran across this "hack" for OS X and immediately fell in love. You can now use box.net (very Web 2.0) just like you use .mac… except box.net gives you a gig of space for free and more space if you invite friends to sign up (with a link like the one I just used... although this post isn't about me getting invitations). All you have to do is sign up, set up a DAV on your Mac, give it your login name (for the secure connection) and you're ready to go. UneasySilence has some screenshots.

 

You can access all your files online, share them with friends, and there’s even a Windows based client for cross-OS sharing. I signed up yesterday and have been very impressed so far... and the price is certainly right. :)

 

Gotta love free stuff. Especially when it’s storage space!

 

Edit: If you're going to sign up, use one of the invitation links further down in the thread so that others (that need it) can get upgraded to 5 GB. Feel free to post your own code once signed up.


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So do you get more storage if u refer ppl?

 

if you ask me, i would say "i don't know". i'm just follower :D

for me 1 Gigs is more than enough for an alternative storage .. and a slow connection ..

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Yup, i was reading the Cnet Review about it (James Kim wrote it, it was one of his last reviews ;) ). But can i mount it as a network volume like box.net?

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Yup, i was reading the Cnet Review about it (James Kim wrote it, it was one of his last reviews ;) ). But can i mount it as a network volume like box.net?

 

No idea. Maybe. I'm going to sign up and try it out now.

 

Edit: I can't seem to find any sort of way to mount a network volume from it. :(

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