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Hello, Amazon Cloud Drive. Meet Polkast.

Last week, app developer Peter Nixey had a fantastic blog post that articulated some of the key issues faced by photo lovers ‘round the world.  He (and many others) seem pretty frustrated with mobile photo management and cloud storage on iPhoto…and we have to agree with him, it’s not the best.  He even told Apple that if they don’t get their act together, the competition is going to swoop in and steal the show.

He’s right.  This week, Amazon’s new Cloud Drive showed up on the scene and we have to give them props for a job well done.  At first glance, the Amazon Cloud Drive seems like a solid solution to many of the issues faced by photo enthusiasts.

So why are we talking about Amazon’s new Cloud Drive?  Well, Amazon’s approach with this product is consistent with the latest trends in mobile user experience.  And while Amazon has a good product, it isn’t going to be the best solution for everyone….particularly for people who are more than just photo ‘enthusiasts’.  And that seems like something we should address.

What People Want.

Overall, mobile users are crying out that there just isn’t enough space on their phones. Photos are big files and people take a lot of them.  They are looking for new ways to expand storage on their phones, and at the same time they want a way to keep their photos both organized and accessible across multiple devices.  Mobile users want access to all images, all the time, on all devices.

Or as Peter Nixey put it, he wants to sort and edit his photos ‘while I’m sat on the loo’. Isn’t that what we’re all looking for?

The truth is that Amazon’s Cloud Drive answers many of these needs, but they (like other cloud platforms) decided to cap their free service at a mere 5 GB.   As long as you need less than 5 GB of storage, Amazon and other clouds could be a decent answer…but who has less than 5 GB of photos these days?  Professional photographers, amateur photographers, and enthusiastic moms and grandmas all need WAY more than 5 GB of storage.  A young family with an SLR camera could easily max out a 5 GB limit on a weekend getaway!

Hmm, so maybe the Amazon Cloud Drive isn’t the best option after all.  Polkast might be better.

Why Polkast is a Better Option.

First, Polkast has unlimited storage space. Yes, unlimited.

So people who are serious about photography should think about that before signing on with the Amazon Cloud Drive.  Seriously, if you have more than 5 GB of files, why would you pay for any cloud service when Polkast will gives you access to unlimited storage…for free?

With the Amazon Cloud Drive, just 1000 GB of data (1 terabyte), would cost you $500 per year, for the rest of your life.  That could really add up after a while.  Maybe you can will it to your grandkids so they can keep the family photos when you are gone. Sounds like a good business model…no, a great business model…for Amazon.  :)  And the truth is that some of the other cloud platforms are even more expensive.

With Polkast, you could have over 1000 terabytes of data for generations to come, and it would still be free.

The second big differentiating point for Polkast is that we don’t require you to upload or sync your photos.

Oh ya, that’s a big deal.  With cloud platforms like Amazon this can take forever…upload….wait….sync…wait.  No more. Polkast gives you instant access to all of your photos on all of your devices, without having to upload or sync.  It sounds too good to be true, but it’s true.  Whether you’re a photo junkie who’s sick of waiting, or a photographer with demanding clients, or maybe you just have severe ADD…you will love managing photos with Polkast.

Why Photographers Love Us.

Much like the Amazon Cloud Drive, our current Polkast product allows photographers to edit, archive, and share photos across all of their devices.  We provide our users with advanced editing functionality, iPhoto integration, and a snazzy interface.  But here’s the genius part.  With Polkast, we are able to utilize the existing storage on your computer and share files securely via wifi, which bypasses the need for a cloud.  It’s the next generation of storage without unnecessary space limitations and security issues.  What more could you want?

Look at what some of our photographer clients have to say!

Why Peter Nixey Will Love Us.

Specifically, to answer Peter Nixey’s well-articulated request, here is what Polkast can do for photographers:

  1. You have one photo library and many devices have access to it.  Users can edit, organize, and delete photos on any device and see the same changes on all other devices. There is no master/slave setup – just straight file access.

  2. You get unlimited space (on your own drive) for all of your photos, videos, and other files. You also get the peace of mind that you’ve got your memories safe-guarded.

  3. You don’t need photostreaming, you can grab all of your pictures directly from the albums in your library.

  4. You can buy a wireless SLR and simply connect it as a new source to your photo library, no problem.  Polkast can be made available to all camera developers and photos can be stored directly on your computer, with iPhoto or without.

  5. You can edit, save, and share your pictures direct from ‘the loo’, the taxi, the plane, the couch, or anywhere you want to be.

  6. You are fully integrated with iPhoto so you don’t lose anything in translation.

Sounds pretty good, huh?

Here’s why:  Our founder, Hong Bui, is a former Apple and Amazon exec and a certified genius when it come to this sort of thing. He has spent his career building innovative technologies that focus on simplicity, usability, and security.  Now Hong is showcasing the best of his knowledge with Polkast.

The best is yet to come.

Learn more at polkast.com and follow us on facebook and linkedin.

Polkast is Heading to Japan!

Big News!

Today we are excited to announce our partnership with Digital Arts in Japan.

This includes a strategic investment in Polkast and a business relationship that makes a whole lot of sense for both companies.

Digital Arts is the Japanese leader for file encryption software and content filtering. That means they have existing clients who rely on them to keep their content safe – existing clients who would love to use Polkast.

Sounds like a match made in heaven.

With the addition of Polkast, Digital Arts will now have a private cloud platform to complete their arsenal of information security software. Their clients will be happy to have our secure and seamless file access, editing, and sharing capabilities across all of their own devices.

The great news for Polkast is that we will have immediate access to their distribution network in Japan.  (yay for us!)

It’s plug-and-play.  We can lean on their local market expertise and existing customer base of security-conscious mobile users, including Japanese corporations, government agencies, educational institutions, and individual consumers.  It’s a quick ramp-up to servicing the Japanese market, and we’re looking forward to the opportunity!

This partnership also marks the launch of Polkast Japan, which will manage technical support (among other things) for our new Japanese customer base. Hong is in Tokyo right now with the Polkast Japan team demoing at Japan IT Week.

The deal with Digital Arts is our first software distribution partnership and our first big push outside the United States.  The knowledge we gain from the market in Japan will serve as a launching pad for future enhancements and new product releases in the US and other international markets.

Now that we have this partnership underway, we want to keep the momentum going. We are actively pursuing additional distribution partnerships with device manufacturers and security software providers.

Email info@polkast.com if you’re interested.

For more details on the Digital Arts partnership, check out our latest press release.

 

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Polkast Your NAS

Terabytes of tunes, videos and photos? Yep! Then you need NETGEAR and POLKAST.

Terabytes of tunes, videos and photos? Yep! Then you need NETGEAR and POLKAST.

Storage on your ipads and tablets sucks. Well, not anymore! Today we launched Polkast for NAS in the NETGEAR genie+ Marketplace, compatible with all new ReadyNAS storage drives. Polkast running on a NAS is an awesome way for you to get the storage you need and fast and flawless access — without compromising on security. No more being disappointed when your technogadget can’t handle your terabytes of tunes!

Fellow Polkasters have tested and told us all about it. Here’s how the data heavies are using Polkast. We found our NAS users are some of our most enthusiastic and active users. That makes sense. People buy a storage drive because they have a lot of videos, photos, music and documents. We’re talking terabytes of data. NAS owners want to centralize all their content and keep it secure, under their own control. So it doesn’t make sense to have to store your private content in the cloud simply to make it accessible. Polkast turns your NAS into a secure personal cloud server for anytime access to your own media library.

NETGEAR is our second NAS partner. We also support ZyXEL NSA 300 Series drives and above, with many more to come.

Got NETGEAR already? Then hook up with Polkast in the genie+ Marketplace. NAS and Polkast make for a fun, on the go, digitally active life!

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Multi-Device Photo Editing with Polkast

Polkast is a secure peer-to-peer personal cloud platform that lets you move your content effortlessly between all of your own devices. Now we’re adding features that let you do stuff with the content. In October it was Polkast Music. This week we released photo editing, integrating Aviary’s Photo Editor, the Cadillac of photo editing.

What makes Polkast photo editing unique is that, for the first time ever, you can grab any photo from your computer, edit, save back and share. We make a new copy, the original is untouched. Apply filters, fun stickers, drawings and captions, crop, resize, auto-correct, etc.  You’re not limited to the photos you took on your mobile, and you don’t have to hassle with syncing photos between devices.  Your edited copies are saved back to your computer automatically. Plus you can share on Facebook or privately through Polkast.

I have a ton of photos on my iPhone but not on my iPad. With Polkast I just upload the iPhone photos directly into iPhoto on my Mac (or your photo folders on Windows), over the air. Then I can instantly see them on my iPad — and now enhance and creatively edit them on the comfort of my couch.

We also enhanced our music section. Now you can listen to albums continuously, and any songs you play are automatically cached for offline listening. If you’re really into music and have a large collection, you should still check out the separate Polkast Music app. That gives a streamlined user experience and seamless integration with playlists. No syncing required, enjoy any song/album/playlist in your collection, whenever the mood strikes.

Be sure to update your iOS apps now. The Android update will be out in a couple of weeks in Google Play and the Amazon app store.

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A New Kind of P2P for Music

Music may well be a killer app for the peer-to-peer personal cloud segment. Yes, I remember Napster, et al., and no, I’m not talking about peer-to-peer file sharing. I’m talking about a private peer-to-peer connection between your computer and mobile devices for access to 100% of your content. You know, Polkast.

Today we launched Polkast Music. You may be wondering why we built a separate music app, since the original Polkast app covers all content types. When we set about enhancing the music features on the original Polkast app, we realized that the music listening experience is different from other file access and merits its own streamlined user experience.

 

Almost everyone I know (well, anyone above the age of 30) has more music stored on their computer than they can sync to their phone. Our music library competes with photos, videos and apps for limited storage space. So we end up making playlists with a subset of favorites, and listening to the same music over and over until we find the time to plug in and sync again.

Polkast MusicPolkast Music reconnects you to your entire iTunes music collection – all of those CDs you spent weeks ripping a decade ago when you first got your iPod, all those digital downloads you’ve bought since. No more worries about syncing playlists or storage limits.

Unlike sync apps, which are limited by device storage capacity, the Polkast Music app for iOS and Android plays music directly from your computer: any song, any album, any iTunes playlist, on demand, over the air (WiFi or cellular). You can create new playlists on the fly, for whatever mood strikes you. Fetch music even when remote, and cache songs, albums and whole playlists locally for offline enjoyment.

Polkast Music is a great example of how content-specific apps can be built on top of Polkast’s secure personal cloud platform, sharing one unified homebase application on the desktop. App developers stay tuned – we’re going to open up our API so you can add direct file access to your mobile apps.

We’re celebrating the launch of Polkast Music by offering the app on sale — only $0.99 one time fee for the download. Get it while it’s hot!

Integrate iPhoto in your Personal Cloud

Last week we released Polkast 2.0. Included among many usability enhancements is support for retina display and deeper integration with iPhoto. Mac users, this one’s for you.

Viewing 100% of your iPhoto Photos and Videos from any where!

Integrate iPhoto in Your Personal Cloud with Polkast

Photo/video viewing is the top use of iPads and Android tablets. It’s the modern use case – you want all your content available to you on all of your devices — that’s why we built Polkast.  And large media libraries are where Polkast really stands out from the pack of cloud storage solutions. The average photo library far exceeds the 5GB free cloud storage limit or the 1,000 photo stream in iCloud, trapping so many of your photos. Personally, I take a ton of photos and videos of my family, and I’ve been frustrated by the 5GB warning messages and impatient with the syncing and waiting. We free you from those restrictions — so you can enjoy and share all of your photos and videos from anywhere, not have to decide which ones you access or limit yourself to only the most recent taken.

The latest Polkast app update lets you view your photos by Photo, Album or Timeline, to match your structure in iPhoto and other folders on your computer. And you can upload photos from your mobile directly into an iPhoto album (or a folder) over the air. It’s the fastest way to load photos from you iPhone to your Mac — especially when you’re on Wi-Fi. And then your photos are also instantly available on your iPad or Windows computer. Just sit back on the couch and enjoy!

When it comes to viewing and sharing pictures or videos, cloud storage really doesn’t compare to Polkast. Why hassle with managing cloud storage limits when you can have it all.

Make sure you update your Polkast app on each of your computers and mobile devices to get full use of the new features. And check out the one minute video demo of our iPhoto integration iPhoto Access

Personal Cloud Semantics

I’m in the trenches in the war of words around cloud computing. Well actually Polkast is more “cloud” than “computing,” and you could say technically we’re not “cloud” in that we don’t require any third party cloud servers. What we are doing is paving the way for consumers to build their own private cloud using their own devices — a new frontier, one core component of the larger personal cloud trend.

This reminds me of the early days at Visto (now Good). That’s where I met Hong, by the way, and a lot of other really great people. We struggled with words like “universal access” before people even had broadband connections, let alone multiple devices. Visto has done well, despite the fact that we were early in what has become a common practice. Timing is everything. It feels like Polkast is hitting the timing just right.

What do consumers think about the cloud? Our very preliminary, very informal street intercept market research shows that people associate cloud with Apple iCloud. Once again Apple is taking tech concepts to the mainstream. (Before the iPhone ad campaigns, we in the mobile industry avoided using the term “app” when talking to consumers.) Now people get the cloud is about storing stuff or doing stuff on the Internet. They think of backup and access.

We’re broadening “access,” debunking the myth that public cloud storage is necessary for ubiquitous content access. The personal cloud = my cloud, my way. Yes, that includes the Internet. But it can also be a private cloud of your own connected devices. Wherever you choose to store your terabytes of content.

Thoughts on Gartner’s Personal Cloud Research

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My Cloud, My Way

Twitter has been on fire for weeks with Gartner’s proclamation that the personal cloud will replace the PC by 2014. Michael Gartenberg and Carolina Milanesi did a great job laying out their research findings in a webinar titled The Personal Cloud and the $3Tn Consumer Market.

Here are my key takeaways – and I’m happy to say, it’s all very much in line with our vision here at Polkast:

Consumers are interacting with technology more and differently, driven by multiple devices, ubiquitous connectivity, rich content and apps, plus the middleware “glue” (insert Polkast here). We are in the midst of a sea change that is driving a huge revenue market.

The CE market is transitioning from device supremacy, to ecosystems, to services shaping the experience. At the center of a cool sideways pyramid chart is Wider Consumer Choice. And a big fuzzy cloud.

People carry multiple devices, and their uses/apps overlap. We can all relate to the charts on when/where/how we use our phone/tablet/laptop. For me there is a ton of overlap, and it’s sort of arbitrary which device I pick up. I still prefer typing on my MacAir, but funnily I often read email on my phone instead of my iPad. The point is I want all three of them; I choose how I use my devices, and all the apps and services I use on them.

My world, my way. Late last year Hong was using “my cloud, my way” as a tag, and I told him I didn’t think it would resonate with enough people. Oops. You were right Hong! It’s all about me (and by that I mean you, the consumer). Consumers’ ability to customize their content, storage and access is core to the definition of the personal cloud.

“The personal cloud is the consumer expectation to seamlessly store, sync and share content on a contextual basis from platform to platform, screen to screen and location to location that is now the hub of their digital lives.”

One question I have for Michael is about the prominence he gives sync in the 4S. Sync is the old way, when you had a couple of computers with roughly the same storage capacity. Now people carry multiple connected devices with differing storage capacity. It just doesn’t make sense to force a sync of 500GB of files on your computer to your 32GB iPad. Our model is on-demand direct access to distributed storage: file virtualization. Cloud sync and storage is for some of your content; direct peer-to-peer access is for everything.

Back to the presentation… The personal cloud is happening now, it’s ushering in disruptive business models, technologies and new competitors, and it creates opportunities and threats. Personal cloud providers have to be trustworthy, easy-to-use, interoperable and consistent across platforms. The networks have to provide the seamless connectivity to make it all hum. And device manufacturers and platform providers need to adopt personal cloud services.

The webinar is recorded, and the presentation is available for download. It’s full of great stats and charts, I highly recommend reading it.

 

Polkast iOS and Android app updates

We just released updates to our iOS and Android app versions.

Yes, we now have streaming video!! Thank you all for your patience and your input. You can now do progressive streaming on supported file types. That’s where you start viewing right away while the video downloads. We still support download, temporarily stored in cache (or –on Android only — your SD card or internal memory), so you can watch offline.

Video formats that support progressive streaming are:

  • iOS — most .mov, mp4, .m4v and .3gp
  • Android — may vary depending on the device. The basic supported file types are listed here. There are third party apps that can extend Android’s capability – make sure you’ve installed a media player that supports streaming.

Not all videos with these file extensions will stream. There’s some detail around compression standards that could affect streaming, and your network bandwidth will have a big impact. Check out our FAQ for more information.

We also implemented smart caching on our mobile apps. This is especially important with large files on small capacity mobile devices. You don’t want to have to worry about managing your file storage. Recently viewed, favorites and files shared to you take priority in the smart cache. Thumbnails and your file index always remain in cache. So if you want to make sure a file stays in your local cache, mark it as favorite by tapping the gold star next to the file name.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And now iOS users can upload multiple files/photos at one time – another much-requested feature. It’s really easy to save files from your mobile/tablet back to your computer through Polkast.

Finally the app updates include some bug fixes and performance improvements.

We rely on your feedback to improve our product — please keep it coming! And look out for the software updates in the Apple and Android app stores.

 

The New iPad, the Post-PC Era and the Personal Cloud

Wow, the new iPad announcement (I guess I can’t say iPad 3) and the related discussions are building the groundswell around the post-PC era and driving the need for the personal cloud.

Whether you call it post-PC or PC-plus (we’re excited about Windows 8, too), the point is the computer is now just one of many connected devices people use.

Some quick facts for perspective:

  • Apple reported 315M iOS devices have been sold — over half of those in the last year, and 20% in Q4. The rate is increasing.
  • Google reports more than 300M Android devices sold. Also at an increasing rate, now 850K Android activations per day.
  • Last month we learned that smart phones outsold PC’s.
  • And then we heard tablets are overtaking PC sales, driven largely by the iPad.

And that’s just tablets and smart phones. We’re also seeing innovative new devices like our partner FXI’s Cotton Candy, Seagate’s advancements in WiFi storage, the growth in NAS, smart TV’s, telematics and more.

Back to the new iPad announcement, Apple emphasized that iPad users will create more on the iPad; it’s not just a consumption device, as some people perceive — making it a viable alternative to the traditional PC. Indeed tablets are commanding more and more share of computing time. People are carrying their iPads out of the living room and bringing them to the work place.

It all heightens the need to have our own content easily accessible from any of our devices.

The personal cloud is the answer. Our stuff is all over the place, we’re amassing huge content libraries, cloud services won’t be the main storage. The smart solution is to connect distributed storage securely peer-to-peer (“file virtualization” for the techie readers). Sure a user or IT manager might decide to centralize on a NAS – or even cloud storage (we’re not completely bucking that trend, just think it’s cost-prohibitive and inefficient). The point is it doesn’t matter where our files are, we should be able to always access them from any of our chosen devices – irrespective of operating system: Mac, iOS, Windows, Android, Linux.

That’s the new expectation, and that’s Polkast’s vision.

FXI Cotton Candy epitomizes the post-PC era

When we say “post-PC era,” we’re not predicting the death of the PC, we simply see the computer as one of many connected devices. And FXI Technologies’ Cotton Candy is a perfect example of this exciting future. We ported our Polkast Android app to their prototype device to show at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this week. It’s a perfect marriage: they bring your computer to any screen, and we bring all of your content with you.

The Cotton Candy is a cool little device with full Android and Ubuntu OS (or virtualized client for Windows, Mac and Linux), WiFi connectivity, and a USB key on one end and HDMI on the other. You can plug in and take over any computer, netbook, TV or gaming device. The screen becomes your own computer, with all of your apps and content. Read more in the press release.

We’re excited to be working with FXI Tech on their innovative new product. Polkast is about connecting your devices directly in a secure personal cloud. And we’ll continue to partner with device manufactures to expand our personal cloud ecosystem.

Polkast Android version optimized for the Kindle Fire

Recently I was lounging around with my new Kindle Fire, trying out new apps, emailing, googling, streaming videos, and catching up on work reading. Glancing up from my Kindle, I noticed that nearly everyone in the room was engaged with their mobile devices, including my 4-year old and grandma.  I experienced a small aha moment. The transition to the “post-PC” era is in full swing in my home, like many millions of homes around the world.

Only a couple of years back I’d be on my laptop and the others would hang around the TV. And now my 80 year-old mom can easily navigate through family photos and videos with Polkast on the iPad, and my 4-year old daughter enjoys the pre-schooler apps.

So I’d like to take a moment — again — to thank the man, Steve Jobs. Up until the arrival of iPhone and iPad, touchscreen devices were a novelty confined to a niche market. Steve and his team kick-started a new industry and truly made computing technology accessible to everyone.

Tablets and smart phones have changed everything. A million Kindles were sold per week leading into Christmas, and 15 million iPads were sold in Q4 — that’s a lot of people quickly adopting a new behavior. We’re living through a paradigm shift in how we feel about our content and our devices. We want to do anything and everything on our tablets, anywhere, and we should just be able to get all of our stuff without having to think about where the file is stored or get up off the couch to get it. That’s what we call cloud bending.

I’m happy to announce that a new Polkast Android version optimized for the Kindle Fire was released in the Amazon app store. Give it a try and tell us what you think and what else can we do to make your digital living easier, accessible, and more fun — without limits.

Mac update!

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

Seagate and ZyXEL show Polkast at CES

We’re having a great time at CES!

Hong has done some video interviews with Scobleizer and techpodcasts. And a couple of very prestigious device manufacturers are showing off the future of the personal cloud with Polkast:

Congratulations to our friends at Seagate and Verizon Wireless – their prototype mobile wireless storage drive was a finalist in Best of CES 2012. Seagate is using Polkast for remote access and sharing on the device. Stop by the Verizon Pavilion in South Hall 3 and ask about Polkast on the Seagate protoype.

For the in-home entertainment network, we are showing Polkast running on ZyXEL’s Media Server NSA300 series. You may have seen our announcement. That’s also a pre-commercial version; we will launch with ZyXEL at CeBIT in March.

Media storage drives are a great solution for consumers who have large media libraries and want to share files across multiple computers and mobile devices. That’s way too much content to upload to a cloud storage service – it would take too long and cost too much. With Polkast, your media storage device becomes the center of your personal cloud.

Come see us at the Eureka Park Tech Zone, booth 74211, at the Venetian.

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PC-to-PC is Here!

UPDATE: We now support PC-to-PC on all Windows homebase apps. The PC-to-PC feature is reserved for Polkast Pro subscribers.

We’re really excited to be announcing our Pro version of Polkast with PC-to-PC support. First we gave you direct access to your computer from your mobile phone or tablet. Now Polkast also connects your computers directly, so you can access files stored on your home computer directly from your work PC, and vice versa. That’s a big step forward in our mission to connect all your devices into your own personal cloud.

The PC-to-PC feature is available first on our Windows version. That means you can view files on other computers — including Macs– from your Windows PC. (We’ll upgrade the Mac OS X within a couple of months.) To get the PC-to-PC Access feature now, simply download the latest version of our Windows software, update your mobile apps and click on the Upgrade to Pro button in the mobile app under Settings/Account.

PC-to-PC is a great feature for users who like to keep their work lives and their personal lives separate. Instead of keeping personal files on your work PC in case you need something, our PC-to-PC product will let you simply access that personal file right from your work PC without having to download and store it. We’ll even save any changes you make to your personal file from your work PC back to your home computer. And because we create a direct connection, we give you access to all the files on your computer – not just the ones you remembered to upload to some cloud storage solution.

Another big plus is that you don’t need to store multiple copies of everything on each of your computers like with sync software, so you can be much more efficient with your storage space. And files can be previewed without having to be downloaded. So if you’ve already got limited hard drive space or you don’t want the hassle of syncing with a group shared folder, preview everything, download only what you need.

PC-to-PC is a great solution for anyone needing to share large files like designers, photographers and videographers. It’s a pain having to go through the time-consuming process of uploading files via 3rd party providers, then having the client download the file. Polkast lets you share the file with the client directly. The client can preview files without having to download them.

As a thank you for your support, all current registered users will be grandfathered into the service and will be able to upgrade to the Pro version for free, for life. Starting in June, new Polkast users can upgrade to Pro inside the Polkast application for $4.99 per month or $49.99 with a year subscription.

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