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Gmail Hack: Use Your Account Space Like Extended Drive
For all platforms with Firefox: Linux, Windows, Mac. The 3GB space that Gmail offers for electronic mails is rather a lot, even for those who receive huge amounts of email. Even if you use all that space, creating a new Gmail account is always an easy option. So how can we put all this free space to good use? Here comes the genial idea; With the help of the following Firefox extensions, we can use this 3GBs like an extra hard disk space online.The first extention to install is Gspace. It is one easy way to share files between your home, office and friends. It's like going around with a 3GB pendrive. The interface is like that of a FTP client and very intuitive to use. Gspace certainly proves very useful in many occasions and even allows for an iPod like functionality as we will find out how later.
Installing Gspace
Follow these three easy steps:
1. Go to www.getgspace.com and download the extension for your operating system (Linux, Windows, Mac).
2. If you have default security settings on your browser, you should be asked for a "permit" to use this extension. After adding this site to the list of Trusted sites, click Install Now.
3. Once successfully installed, you'll be asked to Restart Firefox.
Quick Configuration of Gspace
Few settings to make before we get started:
1. On the Bookmarks Toolbar, click on the Gspace icon (or on the Tools menu you'll find Gspace) to activate Gspace and go to Manage Account. Insert your Gmail ID and Password. Save, close and get into your account.
2. With Login you get into your account and can start uploading your files. This can be done easily by dragging & dropping files.
3. With the right-click, files can be canceled, renamed, copied and so on.
Music and Photos on Gspace
Using the integrated Gmail Audio Player to listen to our audio files on Gmail directly from our browser:
1. All you need to do is Login, then go to Inbox menu and select Player Mode.
2. You must be in the English version to listen to your music. Click on EN English to move to the English version.
3. Select your files My Gspace using the pointer and Add to the Playlist. After creating your Playlist, you can start listening to your MP3 files.
If we dedicate all the space on Gmail exclusively to music we can obtain about 500 songs, if an average song is considered to be 4MB.
To view all your photos without hassle, on the Inbox menu select Photo Mode. Try it out!
Firefox extensions are constantly updated but might not always do so automatically. To manually update Gspace, from the menu bar select:
Tools >> Add-ons >> Find Updates.
This article was written by Kanute from Kabatology. Kanute writes about news that go around the Open Source world. If you are interested in contributing to the thinking process and become a guest writer on The Thinking Blog, find out more information here and be my guest!
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This is great information. The two potential problems are if you don't have internet access then you can't access your information. Second is if Google somehow loses your files, which hopefully is a pretty low probability.
Of course the major upside is that this is FREE!
And you don't have to upgrade memory space etc.
This is very cool. Thanks for sharing!! I love Google!
Like any storage device the risk of loosing data for one reason or the other always exits, so always backup important files. I've uploaded a good number of photos to share with friends and music that keeps me going at work..
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Great info. Now I know how to perk up productivity of my gmail.
It works, but keep in mind it is against Gmail's terms of service, so unless you only do a file here and there, you should avoid it. I used it to upload many files and was temporarily locked out of my account.
How is using a firefox extension a hack nowadays? Neat extension though..
I'm quite sure that it's not against the Gmail TOS. If your account was locked, that was due to the amount of bandwidth you used in a single day. If you waited awhile, maybe up to 24 hours, your account should have been available again.
Even from the GSpace FAQ it notes:
My Gmail account was locked for 24 hours. What should I do?
A. Wait for 24 hours :) . This happens if large amounts of data is uploaded or downloaded in a single day. So, try to avoid that. If you are lucky, sometimes even though the account is locked, you can try logging again. It might work. (It worked for me sometimes, I don't know the reason).
I saw something like this at one time. It essentially stored the files as if they were attachments to mails. The size of the files, however, was limited to the 10MB attachment size limit, so it would only let you store small'ish files in this way. Still, for MP3's it's handy. Does anyone know if this limit exists for this extension?
Thanks Ilker for calling on me cause I've got new stuff. Presently Google says:
“With Gmail, you can send and receive messages up to 20 megabytes (MB) in size. However, the precise amount allowable will depend on the attachment.
When you add an attachment, the size of a file may increase because transport encodings are automatically added. (Transport encodings are the information that allows your message to be safely sent and read.)
This means that in some cases, attachments that are 17 to 20MB in size may push the total message size above 20MB. When this happens, Gmail displays a warning that your message exceeds the 20MB limit.
Please note that you may not be able to send larger attachments to contacts who use other email services with smaller attachment limits.”
For more: http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=8770&topic=1517
By Kanute for Kabatology:Open Source, Linux
If you are thrown out from Gmail, as GuyOnTheAir also said; This happens if large amounts of data is uploaded or downloaded in a single day. Get a 24 hours break and start all over.
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