Omnidrive finally releases Mac client

As a sidenote:

There is a decently nice web interface for the idisk, I don't think it's promoted at all, but it is: http://idisk.mac.com/yourusername/?view=web

Try it out...

racco: are the files there when you log into the web interface?

http://web.omnidrive.com/

if you can, please email support (support@omnidrive.com) with your username so we can look into it. thanks.

I signed up, downloaded the Mac client, logged in, dropped a few files into the drive.

When I come to my Mac today and logged in to my Omnidrive I find that it is empty.

I think it needs a bit more work

You may also want to try SteekR and SteekUp, another Mac-friendly online backup and sharing service.

There's an offer for 1G for free for early adopters.

http://www.steek.com/

NB: I work for the company behind Steek.

Dennis's comment was apparently left on the wrong post. He was actually referring to getting his Apple TV set up.

Dennis: Please contact us and we will take you through it, remember this is still a beta release and we aren't posting all the documentation until this weekend, but we are available to help users out, there are a number of ways you can contact us, see:

http://www.omnidrive.com/support

Yikes, my AppleTV comment ended up in the wrong article.

and wrt WebDAV, our API will have webdav support with the next release (we will also have XML-RPC and SOAP support). Users will be able to mount their OD store with any webdav client

Hi, I am the CEO of Omnidrive, thanks for covering the launch of our Mac client - we are really sorry that it took so long but I hope the wait has been worth it. We will be further developing our Mac client and we spend as much development time on the Mac as we do for other platforms. Our web interface is also cross-platform and works with all modern browsers.

Something you may miss about the Omnidrive Mac client is the ability to click on any file or folder on your desktop and publish or share them. To do this, just right-click or control-click on any file and go down to the Omnidrive menu. A future release will link publishing and sharing to keyboard shortcuts and we will have the options available in the Finder menu.

As for our pricing, you need to compare apples to apples etc. Omnidrive is about accessing your files, sharing, publishing and integrating with other applications (with our web interface you can now edit office documents, edit images, zip/unzip files and a lot more - we will be adding an average of an app a week over the next few months). Over the coming months, you will also see more and more applications that support Omnidrive as a storage point (an application you have covered here before - Bandwagon (iTunes backup), is one such app). Omnidrive is able to offer all of this, along with open source developer toolkits and usually still cost a lot less than services that provide just an API or just backup.

Our pricing is very simple - we tell you straight-up what you get and we don't try to mislead users nor do we impose any speed limitations. The per-month bandwidth allotment with Omnidrive accounts is double your total storage. We also provide 24/7 email, forum, jabber and phone support.

Try Omnidrive out, we are still in beta but we offer a lot. If you have any suggestions for the product, please feel free to email them to feedback at omnidrive.com - a lot of our development is fed on user feedback.

Mozy has also released a beta client to their mailing list. No open file support or block level differentials yet. 2GB free. http://mozy.com/downloads/Mozy.dmg