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Virtual drive: GMail Drive · Pc talk · / 20 11 2004 - 03:49

I just installed GMail Drive: a Shell Namespace Extension that creates a virtual drive in the Windows Explorer, allowing me to use my Google GMail account as a storage medium.

It’s a neat free application that let’s me do basic file manipulation, such as copy and delete of files inside the GMail account. Because it is a Shell Extension, the interface is in Windows Explorer itself.

GMail Drive appears as a virtual drive under your My Computer folder in Windows Explorer.

picture of gmail drive

You can do the following with it:

Navigate between files and folders using the familiar Explorer folder view.
Do basic file manipulations, such as creating folders and delete files.
Use copy and paste as you would normally do in Explorer to copy files around.
Use drag’n’drop to quickly move files between folders. Show information about volumes and files using the Properties dialogs.

How does it work?

GMail Drive works by directly manipulating emails inside your Google GMail account.

When you copy a file to the GMail Drive folder, it internally creates and sends an e-mail to your account. The file content is sent as an e-amail attachment.
When the Shell Extension needs to display a directory listing of your GMail account, it submits a GMail search query using the sparsely documented GMail Protocol API. It searches for all e-mails starting with the word “GMAILFS”. From the returned search result, it builds a directory structure, which is displayed in the Shell Extension.

Because all GMail Drive files appear as regular e-mails in your Google GMail account, i have set up a GMail filter that automatically moves all e-mails containing “GMAILFS” to the archived folder. This way, GMail Drive files won’t clutter up my GMail account.

The file size is limited to 10 Mb because this is the attachment size limit Google imposes on all mails. Since the filename must be available on the message subject line, the full filename length is limited to 40 characters.

If you’re interested, you can get it at Viksoe.dk.

Is it possible to remain anonymous and untraceable on the Web? Yes it is? · Pc talk · / 23 10 2004 - 00:46

Okay, so you want to access a website or service but you know that, by submitting your email address, you’re gambling with your privacy.

An increasing number of websites and web-based services require registration before you can enter their content.

But what to do if you want/should be carefull about your privacy?
Using some bogus hotmail account or something of the likes?

Okay, but that still leaves you with the password problem, not to mention your IP address.

No need to worry, there is a solution to let you completely surf anonymous and untraceable.

My friend Darkblue has written an outstanding article about it. It offers a complete and easy solution.

Is your e-mail safe? · Pc talk · / 13 08 2004 - 17:55

The U.S. District Court in Boston recently ruled that anyone can read your e-mail with impunity. All it takes is that the e-mails are in a server’s memory and disk. That way they are stored and not in transit… and therefore not subject to wiretapping laws.

Scary?

Read the full story.

Need a wallpaper? · Pc talk · / 9 01 2004 - 20:17

If you’re in desperate need for a wallpaper to spank up your beast, you might take a look over at veer. They have some pretty kewl thingies there.

Now, on another note, i decided (lazy bugger i am) to finally take up some php. Yeah, i know, some amongst you will say “hey, don’t you have a knowledge about php?”. Well, up till now i just didn’t feel like it to break my head over it, but seems like the time has come to take the plunge. Jeez, why am i rambling about this? Am i that desperate to fill my blog?

Sorry folks, but at the moment my life is shitty and so i don’t have (as if i ever had) anything interesting to write/say.

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