Among the different services defined Cloud File server, I could define Box.net, the number 3 in the sector, which sees the web applications Dropbox and Sugarsync as leader. Box.net or simply Box is a very similar solution with some different features compared to its competitors and, more importantly, it adds another 5 GB of online hard disk in which to store your files .
It therefore becomes increasingly advantageous to use all these "cloud" sites at the same time, perhaps by integrating them with each other through some applications, to have a personal online space where you can save files and be able to read, edit and download from any PC, freely and for free.
Box has some unique features compared to the others, including the main one, integration with Google Docs.
After registering a free account on the box.com website, 10 GB of free space is given away, for uploading files to the internet (maximum 250 MB each).
With the 10 GB Box it is superior to other services already described in these pages which instead stop at 5G.
The files are managed from the website interface, from the browser, whatever PC or computer you use.
For music files, photos, videos, Word documents, Excel tables and PDFs, a preview is provided to display these files directly on the web page, without downloading them.
Each file can be updated and shared with links.
As with other similar services, Box offers to install a client for Windows or a client for Mac for automatic file synchronization .
To manage the files saved on the Box.net online hard disk from your computer, you can also connect to Box via webdav, without installing anything, with this configuration:
If you are using Windows 7, right click on Network from the Start menu and choose connect network drive .
As address please indicate //www.box.com/dav and as access credentials use those to access box.net.
In computer resources you will now see a new online hard drive that contains files saved in the cloud.
Box.net also integrates with Google Docs and this is perhaps its main strength that other apps don't have.
From the web page where you can see the saved files, after logging in, you can press the New button to create a new Word document or Excel table directly online, using the Google Docs application for free, a kind of Office on the internet provided from Google.
If Office files have been uploaded (uploaded) to Box, you can edit them online using Google Docs.
Google Docs has an available space of 1 GB so Box.net allows you to expand this space up to at least 10 GB.
Box.net also provides some additional applications including, very valid, the one to integrate it into Microsoft Office thus giving the possibility to open and edit the documents saved on the hard disk online directly from Word, Excel and Powerpoint.
Files saved in the Box.net cloud file server can also be viewed and downloaded from iPhone, iPad and Android from their free applications.
Box.net is becoming very popular in recent months thanks to some very advantageous offers that we will announce in this post.
