Mac users, check out our latest software release. We’ve been in public beta while we enhanced our integration with iPhoto – a critical feature for almost all Mac users. iPhoto is tricky, and we have to extract the data to display in a way that makes sense. Now your photos and videos from your iPhoto albums are organized and easily accessible through Polkast.
Speaking of Mac users, I just read that iCloud has 85 million users – wow! Personally, I only use iCloud for calendar, contacts and bookmarks sync (it works most, not all, of the time). But even if you do use iCloud for files, Polkast can be complementary, for access to the rest of your files — the hundreds of gigabytes you have on your Mac. All of your photos, videos, documents, etc. would blow past the 5GB storage limit and take forever to upload to the cloud.
Polkast is also similar to Apple’s Airdrop, but we let you share files with anyone, even extending beyond your local network and outside of Apple devices. We’re cross-platform, so if you have a Mac you can still share files with people on Windows and Android. It’s especially great for large files.
Download the latest Mac OS version of Polkast here
Any plans for a Linux version? I run all Ubuntu and Android systems.
We have a linux version available to our device partners (showed running on ZyXEL media server and Seagate satellite drive at CES). Not sure if we’ll distribute it openly, but if you send an email to support@polkast.com with “linux” in the subject, I can keep you posted. Thanks!
Just got the latest Mac version and iPhone app. I gotta hand it to you. This seems to be a great concept put into action. I have seen several similar services pop up in past and then disappear or never really extend past the Apple threshold.
I think you have taken remote file access a step further than most and look forward to using it.
cannot log in from mac… it says timed out. I am using the same login id and password as on my ipad…
Thank you for contacting Polkast. Our login server is experiencing a more than normal load today. It’s causing some delays and errors during logins. The issue has been fixed, please log off then back in on the Homebase then the client.
Let us know support@polkast.com for timely response if you are still having issue.