a geek and his life
hotmailfs, coming soon to a machine near you.
well, it’s happened. roamdrive, a “company” has produced a “product” called roamdrive.
the app uses hotmail’s implementation of the webdav api to shove zip’ed and base64 encoded files into users’ mailboxes.
i’ve been concerned about this for awhile and it’s come to (rotten) fruition. it’s really far less elegant than the gmail hacks, but does get the job done.
more later, when i know how much i should say.
see also:
http://bengt.org/archives/2004/10/gmail_drive_she.php
http://bengt.org/archives/2004/08/gmailfs.php
http://bengt.org/archives/2004/07/my_best_hopes_i.php
http://bengt.org/archives/2004/07/my_worst_fears.php
While it may be less “elegant” than the Gmail hacks, it appears to be far more flexible. This application opens up the possibility of spanning multiple e-mail accounts for nearly unlimited storage. It also has a very inuitive interface, as well as capabilities like the Gmail Drive lacks, such as the abilility to store files of any size.