Do you use the "cloud"?

[Imp]

No.

I tried Skydrive, but I'm so use to just e-mailing shit to myself (been doing it since Grade 10 and I'm a few years removed from college) that I don't want to change now.

Get off ma lawn...

 

[Saint Nick]

Meh, I haven't moved to the cloud and probably won't for a long time. I don't have any cloud-enabled devices nor do I feel teh need to take my music collection with me everywhere. Someday, though, I will want it

 

[Dominato3r]

No.

I tried Skydrive, but I'm so use to just e-mailing shit to myself (been doing it since Grade 10 and I'm a few years removed from college) that I don't want to change now.

Get off ma lawn...

Lol, good times.

 

[skyking]

No, I have several servers available to me.

 

[destrekor]

iTunes Match, that's it.

Yeah sucks that it's not free but if you have shitty upload speeds than Google Music is pretty bleh.

I'd argue the main benefit of their Match service isn't so much saving time on uploads, it's getting legal music for a much cheaper price (if you have a large collection of pirated music, it basically becomes legal on iTunes using Match).

I've never used it, but that's pretty cool.
But I won't pay for another music service since I already have Zune, Google Music just makes it that much more awesome for the music it can access.

 

[ViviTheMage]

sugarsync! + my own stuff.

 

[SaDiZTiKStyLeZ]

Been using Dropbox for several years. Would like to have more space. But nobody uses my referral link.

 

[AFurryReptile]

I love the cloud. Off the top of my head I use:

Gmail, Gcal, Gtasks, Gdocs, Dropbox, Crashplan... and probably a few other things.

 

[cronos]

Been using Dropbox for several years. Would like to have more space. But nobody uses my referral link.

If you don't mind making some effort, this 'trick' actually works really well.

I maxed out mine and my wife's dropbox referral bonus (total of about ~20 GB each because we have .edu e-mail addresses) because of this. It took about three weeks until the ads actually run after the first time I created my google ad account, but when the referrals started trickling in it didn't take more than two hours and ~$15 of adwords bucks (I received $80 for free from a promotion) to max out each account.

I'm also a huge fan of Dropbox and have been using it for several years as well.

 

[Atomic Playboy]

I used Dropbox for exactly one file, so I should have voted for that, I suppose... But realistically, I don't trust the cloud, and I am resistant to the idea of using it unless it is absolutely required by whatever software I am using (or system policy in a professional scenario).

 

[WelshBloke]

You pretty much cant avoid having stuff in the cloud.

 

[dighn]

amazon s3

 

[Inspector Jihad]

google has all my shit.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

I use Dropbox on rare occasions, although I still don't understand WTF this whole cloud thing is anyways, and had no idea that Dropbox was a part of that.

 

[ch33zw1z]

I don't. Not that I'm really against the concept, I think it's neat, I just like having full control over where my data is, how it's backed up, etc... So I store everything on my local server at home, and anything I need to access remotely I just SSH tunnel in.

ditto. I have 4 drives that I back up my photo's and critical stuff on. Everything else is split on two drives. I use Create Synchronicity to mirror both pairs. I use SSH, or TeamViewer as my secondary remote solution.

 

[lxskllr]

I use Dropbox on rare occasions, although I still don't understand WTF this whole cloud thing is anyways, and had no idea that Dropbox was a part of that.

http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/who-does-that-server-really-serve.html

Edit:
A related, but better article on "cloud" computing...
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/judge-internet-usage.html

 

[Baked]

I'm using Amazon's Cloud Drive so I can play music on my Android phone. Awesome!

 

[xSauronx]

I've slowly been getting into SkyDrive (and I do have a dropbox account too - shared/synced folders are awesome for sharing between PC and Phone).

So far, I am really loving the combination of OneNote 2010 and OneNote Mobile (Android) with SkyDrive holding onto it all. I have non-synced notebooks, but I am thinking OneNote Mobile will take over as my main approach instead of Springpad or Evernote, though I haven't really tried Evernote).
OneNote on PC is so powerful, and so easy to integrate with other activities, that so far I am really liking the whole concept.

im the same way...love one note, and yesterday got me a new phone with android 2.3 that can use the one note app, so i synced lots of shit to one note last night. its going to be really, really handy at work.

that and gmail...ive been using gmail and google services for years. google tasks is a very convenient quick way to keep up with short lists and such, i use my google calendar plenty, gtalk is awesome, and i sort of use google docs.

 

[Arkaign]

Google Docs / Hosted company email with Google

Microsoft Hosted Exchange / Office 365 / Sharepoint / etc crap from Microsoft

Egnyte (10TB account, not mine personally of course, but it's currently at less than 30% capacity, so there's plenty of space for whatever)

 

[qliveur]

Didn't work too well for this place. :sneaky:

 

[Pantlegz]

I use Amazon's cloud player and Google Docs. I'm starting to use 'cloud' services more and more as time goes on.

 

[Dominato3r]

im the same way...love one note, and yesterday got me a new phone with android 2.3 that can use the one note app, so i synced lots of shit to one note last night. its going to be really, really handy at work.

that and gmail...ive been using gmail and google services for years. google tasks is a very convenient quick way to keep up with short lists and such, i use my google calendar plenty, gtalk is awesome, and i sort of use google docs.

One Note Mobile still doesnt have support for handwritten notes which isn't a deal breaker but it would be nice.

 

[Joseph F]

Dropbox. Free account does basically everything I need. Right now it's 41% full, and I haven't cleaned it out recently. Works great for hosting pictures for Craigslist ads and stuff like that, and for easily transferring files to and from my phone.

Ever heard of a USB cable? xD

@OP: I don't use cloud services as I don't have a need for them, and I only get 6GB/month data on my primary internet connection.

 

[SparkyJJO]

I'm using Amazon's Cloud Drive so I can play music on my Android phone. Awesome!

I can play music on my Android phone too. It's called the microSD card

The only "cloud" type thing I really use is my email (gmail) but then that's nothing new. All my actual data is on my PC, and that's it. I have considered putting some stuff on the cloud for easy access but ONLY non-important stuff, and then that almost defeats the purpose anyway.

 

[lxskllr]

I have considered putting some stuff on the cloud for easy access but ONLY non-important stuff, and then that almost defeats the purpose anyway.

You could encrypt it, and anyone putting important data on someone elses machine should be doing that anyway.