Our newest release 'Seebach' came with an essential new feature: Details View.
Instead of having your files displayed according to the Thumbnail View, you can now switch to the Details View. Use the Details View to organize your data more efficiently and sort your files and folders according to name, size, type and date of last modification. The last two rows even show you if you data has been uploaded to Wuala or if it has already been downloaded to your local Wuala cache.
Activate the Details View by going to View > Details View or by pressing CTRL + F8 (Windows) or F8 (Mac).
Yesterday the Zurich Web Scene met for another successful
Web Monday. With so many signups (around 70 people!) our office was clearly packed.
Presenting were Raphaël Briner from
Hyperweek, a Geneva based start-up customizing a 'Facebook for companies', and Shigs Amemiya from
iMusicianDigital.com, an online tool for indie bands and musicians to directly sell their music to iTunes and Amazon. Rounding up was Alain Leclert von Bonin who introduced us to
oSkope visual search, an online service allowing you to search for products and pictures on Amazon, Ebay, Flickr and YouTube in a whole new way.
We are proud to present our first video explaining why Wuala is the perfect product for any type of computer user who wants to store his/her data in a secure place online.
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We're proud to annouce:
Anthrazit, the Swiss magazine for digital lifestyle, has awarded
Wuala as one of the "200 besten Websites der Schweiz".
The award elects the 200 leading websites of Switzerland according to different categories such as services, sport, travel, family and finance.
Ktipp, the Swiss magazine devoted to possible concerns of consumers, published a solid article about online storage in general.
Their findings: Online storage is a nice alternative to external hard drives or flash keys with the advantage of sharing data with friends, having access to the data from anywhere and being abe to access previous versions of a file. However, not all online storage services are safe: Files should first be encrypted on the computer, before they are uploaded to the servers. If this is not the case, the online storage provider has complete access to data of the user.
Here Ktipp mentions some of the services that are 'partly safe' (left) and some that are are 'safe' (right). We are proud to see that Wuala has been mentioned as a 'safe service'. Just to repeat: With Wuala all your data gets encrypted on your computer before it is uploaded to the Wuala-Network and to our servers. This means that you have full control over your files and none of us - not even our developers - can see your private files.
You can find the whole
article on Wuala (in German).
This post is written by guest blogger M.A. Uwe Hauck who is 42 years old and living in Schwäbisch Hall, Germany. Uwe has been working with computers since he was 16 years old and is now a Computer Scientist working for a IT Service provider of a financial institute. He is active in several open source communities and expecially trying to evangelize as many people as possible to use Linux and of course Wuala as their primary online storage system. He is happily married and father of three kids.
There was this old EeePC 900a in my closet. In fact it still worked fine, just the mousebuttons were broken. So I decided to set up this device as a dedicated EeePC Trading Server. But to make it really convenient I decided I wanted to administer the whole thing while on the road, which in my case means, from another EeePC online via UMTS or from my Android Smartphone.
Setting up the server itself was rather simple. I used a standard Ubuntu installation and just installed the standard Wuala Client and added the machine to my WLan Network (and yes, of course opening the necessary ports for real exchange). But wait. I wanted it to be reachable through the internet. That was the moment when my AVM Fritzbox came in handy.
The AVM Fritzbox has an option to always post the new IP-address after disconnecting from the net to special dynamic dns services. In my case it was DynDNS which I set up in the Fritzbox to automatically reconnect my EeePC with the internet. Next step. Open the ports for ssh (22) and vnc (5900 and 5901). Since I also wanted to run a Mediawiki and a JSPWiki on that little machine, I opened the ports 8080 and 80 for web access. First tests showed me that the setup was fine. So here we go, I have a low power web server (consumes about 11 Watt) sitting under my desk which is always on and serves Wuala 32GByte of space through a plugged in SD Card.
I also set up the rest of our PC equipment (3 more netbooks and two notebooks) to use Wuala for data exchange and backup purposes. I have earned about 70GByte of online space by now. And yes, to support the Wuala idea I also bought 10GByte of non sharing web space.
I simply love the idea of trading space and recommend it to all my customers.
