Software

Adobe Creative Cloud Will Be 40% Off For Current CS Customers

Adobe is betting big on Creative Cloud, but it’s also a bit pricey at $62.99 a month. So it just announced that current customers of CS3, CS4 or CS5 can snag it for $37.99 a month. Given that you have to sign up for a year, that’s a pretty darn good deal at $300 off over the course of 12 months. [Creative Cloud]


April 21, 2012
News

Samsung iCloud Competitor Will Apparently Debut Alongside Galaxy S III

Samsung’s S-Cloud, which seems like a six-letter middle finger to the design lawsuit lawyers, will be out with the Galaxy S III next month, according to Korean newspaper Maeil Business. The only thing is, uhh, why?


April 17, 2012
Online

Google Drive Details Leak: 5GB For Free, Launching Next Week

Confirming previous rumours about Google Drive, Google’s Dropbox competitor, The Next Web is reporting that Google will give away 5GB of free storage to Google Drive users and will probably launch the service next week. [The Next Web]


April 14, 2012
Online

Australian Government Indirectly Dissing US-Based Cloud Services By Not Using Them

Gizmodo AU

A US report has pointed an angry finger at our government’s use of local cloud providers over that of US-based ones and the message it sends. Apparently, the simple act of not using online storage companies in the US to store sensitive information is paramount to giving such services a one-star review.


April 13, 2012
Online

Does This Leak Hint At Google Drive’s Imminent Arrival?

Google Drive — the widely rumoured and highly anticipated cloud storage service — is expected to land in the next few months. To add more fuel to that rumour fire, Lucidchart has just managed to leak a Google Drive integration page, which suggests we could see the service launching very, very soon.


April 5, 2012
Software

Phonedeck Lets You Control Your Android Phone From Your Computer

One of the benefits of using Android is the options and flexibility you get. Like Phonedeck, an app that essentially lets you control your phone from a web browser. That’s right, you can send texts, make calls and reject calls on your phone all through your computer.


Online

Dropbox Will Give You Up To 32GB Of Free Storage For Referring Friends

Dropbox just doubled up its referral program, which means more free storage for you. If you’re a free user, you get 500MB of storage space for each Dropbox referral, with a maximum of 32 referrals for 16GB of space.


March 31, 2012
Online

Rumour: Google Drive Will Give You 5GB Of Free Cloud Storage In April

TalkAndroid’s got leaked screenshots saying that Google’s cloud storage service will have 5GB of storage and launch the week of April 16. That would put it in line with the 5GB of free storage from iCloud and a good bit ahead of the 2GB you get from Dropbox by default.


March 28, 2012
Mobile

HTC Is Deleting All Its Users’ Backups

HTC has announced that it is going to shut down its half-arsed backup service, HTCsense.com, to replace it with “new and improved services”. But if you have any data stored there, download it real quick — after April 30, it’ll be deleted for good.


March 12, 2012
Online

Apple Killing iWork.com Effective July 31

An old PR adage says if you have bad news, release it on Friday when it’s less likely to cause a stir. So perhaps that’s why Apple announced it’s killing off iWork.com on, you guessed it, this past Friday.