I wrote the other day about .mac and the iDisk, so I thought I should follow up with a bit about another option for an internet-based disk—Google Mail.
There have been a couple of Windows utilities that enable you to use your GMail account to store files but this is the first I’ve seen for Mac OSX. gDisk is a simple but useful tool. Install the software and then log in with your Gmail account username and password, create a folder, and then upload or download files. On Google Mail, they’re stored as attachments to draft messages (which means you can access them either with your gDisk client or simply the web interface to Google Mail.
Don’t have a Google Mail account? If you need an “inviteâ€, drop me a line and I’ll send you one. gDisk is “donationware” and XCode-ready source is also available on the sourceforge site.
Recognizing that files placed on a service like .mac or Google Mail are subject to the whims of the host (or NSA or RIAA or whoever), let me also suggest a Mac-based port of an encryption package: