James Osborn

About 12 months back I was signed up to a great little tool called DocSycner which found all the word/excel/powerpoint documents on your PC and simply uploaded them to Google Docs. It was quick and easy and I found it incredibly useful as it allowed me to forget about carrying a memory stick from home to work and not concern myself with expensive off-site backup solutions (for the really important stuff such as work anyway).

When I got my new laptop I didn’t bother installing it (as it was the holidays and I had no need for it) but now i’m at university I can really see a use for it. Unfortunatly the company went bust in June 2008. Since then I have been hunting around for a solution. Sure there are plenty of great backup solutions such as Mozy or Jungle Disk but none of them compare to the simplicity of Docsyncer.

It’s sad that there was no way to monetise this technology (i guess they simply couldn’t compete with more advanced solutions) and presumably their business plan was ‘Year 2… be bought by Google’ but this is a loss to the search giant too. I used Google Docs more than ever when my files  were simply ‘there’… it became a replacement for MS Office which is the ultimate intention of the Google Docs Suite. So come on Google… pull your finger out and whip up a solution… my docs wont upload themselves!

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