Pedagogical Posturing

I stumbled upon a rather useful plugin for Firefox called Gspace, that allows you to use the unused space on your GMail accounts. On my main GMail account, I’m currently using 87Mb or approximately 1% of the 7219Mb of storage space allocated to me by Google. I have another two unused accounts and could have many more of course if I wanted to set them up. All you need to do is register your accounts with Gspace and then it enables you to drag and drop files from your computer to your GMail space. It means that you have virtually unlimited storage space for free.

The disadvantage is that it’s only available to you, although you could share the space by giving one or more other people login details to one of your GMail accounts that you don’t use for your regular mail. The other parties would need to be using Firefox and have the Gspace plugin installed on the computer that they were using. It’s not quite cloud computing because any computer that you use needs to be running Firefox and have the plugin installed. The good thing is that it runs on Windows, Linux and OSX and certainly doesn’t take long to set up.

You could gradually shift your entire music library online if you wanted to and listen to it using the Player Mode to create playlists that play directly from the Gspace flash player. There is a photo mode as well that allows to quickly view any photos that you have uploaded.