GMail Drive

Something pretty darn cool..

Published on March 3, 2005 By Frogboy In WinCustomize News

Those GMail accounts have a lot of disk space available to them eh?

Well here's a program that lets you turn your Gmail account into a virtual drive that shows up in My Computer. It's pretty darn cool. Using it right now.

Comments (Page 1)

drjjeb

on Mar 03, 2005

Amazing... Easy and simple to add a gigabyte to your computer

ZubaZ

on Mar 03, 2005

Thanks for the find Brad.

Kobrano

on Mar 03, 2005

Yup, GmailFS came out last year, i've used it off and on since around July 2004. However be advised, Google tends to "Break" it often, I don't think they like it.

http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/08/29/0237213&tid=198&tid=217&tid=106&tid=218

Oo_NUKLEAR_oO

on Mar 04, 2005

pretty neat stuff.. soo.. if i got 50 invites and i keep inviting my self .. i get an extra 50gigs?.. hmm.. that'll require lots of diferent email addys

Woodbridge

on Mar 04, 2005

pretty neat stuff.. soo.. if i got 50 invites and i keep inviting my self .. i get an extra 50gigs?.. hmm.. that'll require lots of diferent email addys

Not too mention a few more letters in the alphabet for your drive letters

joeKnowledge

on Mar 04, 2005

LOL
I am sure Google doesn't like this, but they might see it as a way to have a subscription service.
25GB for 10 bucks. email whatever and share RSS feeds of what you upload to friends and co-wrokers.

Weihao Chiu

on Mar 04, 2005

The ObjectDock icon thread "GMail Drive" at WinCustomize.com has been available. Click on the link below now.
Link

powella

on Mar 04, 2005

Hey this is a great idea.

Hazy_Lunar_Rain

on Mar 04, 2005

Ok... This is all well and good... But I can't figure out how to GET Gmail! All I can get is... Beta testing, and GRRRRR

Sembetu

on Mar 04, 2005

For a gmail account, you have to register with google to receive one, and when they are ready... they will send you a link, which you can use to set it up. At least, that is how it worked for me, and until it comes out of beta.

Sembetu

DLWarren

on Mar 04, 2005

To get a Gmail account, all you need to do is find a "buddy" with an invite and have them send you an invite. That's how I got mine. And from what I hear, they upped the invites to 50 per user so I'm sure there are plenty out there.

BTW, I don't have any left.

Maverick

dharmagrl

on Mar 04, 2005

Kewl! Free space, that's always good!

If anyone's interested, I still have all 50 invites left.....emil me at [email protected] and I'll be more than happy to send you an invite!

mezzodramatic

on Mar 04, 2005

I have an invite...I can give you one...send me your e-mail, just e-mail me at [email protected]
I have 50 left, so I don't mind giving them out...
~Lindsey

ZubaZ

on Mar 04, 2005

Argh!! The company is blocking access to gmail via websense.
Curse you WebSense!

chuckyboy81070

on Mar 04, 2005

obligatory "welcome to last year...." post.

also, i'm pretty sure you're still limited to the same file size restrictions as attachments. i think it's 10 MB. shouldn't be a problem 99.99% of the time, though.

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