Re: [WinMac] Re: FTP and Mac
Darryl Lee(lee[at]darryl.com)
Wed, 7 Oct 1998 11:34:28 -0700 (PDT)
Belinda wrote:
> You know, there is another alternative. Geocities has a Virtual Office
> service that is great for people who need to upload/download documents
> to/from each other -- it's CHEAP $49.99 first YEAR and $19.95 after that.
> Netscape offers a similar service, but it's more expensive. Might solve
> your cross-platform and firewall difficulties easier and cheaper than
> setting up a server.
>
> Folders can be made public or private -- password-protected. Seems like
> enough security from what you describe.
Geocities and Netscape both use the same software: Virtual Office.
There's also an iMac Virtual Office, as well as an Earthlink Virtual
Office. Not sure on all the pricing differences, although it says
the iMac site is available free to the first 100,000 iMac owners
that sign up. How do they check to see if you have an iMac? i
dunno. >:}
Anyways, it's from the folks at Netopia (formerly Farallon). [Full
disclosure: My brother works for the Virtual Office division of
Netopia.] The link is www.netopia.com, but more specifically, take a
look at: http://www.netopia.com/software/nvo/
Good to see that they finally have a Mac version. (Six months ago,
they didn't. i think you could still upload, but you didn't have
access to the fancier conferencing and chatting options.)
Oh, another company that has a similar product (but it's PC only) is
www.visto.com. [More full disclosure: i play ultimate frisbee with
one of the engineers at this company.]
Anyways, interesting stuff, and you can try 'em all out for free. :}
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