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Daily Update for October 14, 2011

by Steven Sande (Oct 14th, 2011)

It's the TUAW Daily Update, your source for Apple news in a convenient audio format. You'll get all the top Apple stories of the day in three to five minutes for a quick review of what's happening in the Apple world. You can listen to today's Apple stories by clicking the inline player ...

Box offers 50 GB storage to iOS users

by Kelly Hodgkins (Oct 14th, 2011)

Box.net is taking advantage of the hype surrounding the iPhone 4S and iCloud by offering 50 GB of free storage to iPhone and iPad owners. The promotion is live now and will last for 50 days so you have plenty of time to sign up. To claim your 50 GB account, you have to download the Box.net ...

Box.net SimpleShare Mac app for free screencast and screenshot sharing

by Steven Sande (Apr 28th, 2011)

Cloud storage provider Box.net has announced a new free Mac app called SimpleShare to make sharing screenshots and screencasts with others a piece of cake. When installed and used with a free (5 GB) or paid Box.net account, SimpleShare appears as yet another menu bar icon. To capture a ...

Box.net adds VGA out, AirPrint to iPad app

by Dave Caolo (Feb 17th, 2011)

Good news for fans of Box.net. The cloud-based service has added support for video out and AirPrint to its iPad app. Version 2.4, released today, lets users print any file to an AirPrint-capable printer and project documents to a projector or TV. To project a document, just connect the iPad to a ...

Quickoffice Connect Mobile Suite for iPad gets PowerPoint editing for Christmas

by Steven Sande (Dec 23rd, 2010)

The Quickoffice Connect Mobile Suite for iPad has gained some new features that make it even more useful to business people on the go. Quickoffice, Inc. announced today that its mobile office suite for the iPad now has an editor for Microsoft PowerPoint files in addition to the Excel and Word ...

Final Box.net iPad campaign video

by Mike Schramm (Nov 4th, 2010)

Box.net has released the final video covering their project to set up a company called D7 Consulting with 20 iPads to implement in their day-to-day business. It sounds like the whole thing has been a rousing success -- back when the project first kicked off, D7 said they wanted to use the iPad to ...

Box.net adds caching and update notifications to mobile apps

by Dave Caolo (Aug 10th, 2010)

The folks at Box.net have announced new features that will be a part of a soon-to-be-released update to both their iPad and iPhone apps. Specifically, caching will allow for offline access to files, and update notifications will keep track of file versions. The first is exciting for users like me ...

What could your business do with 20 iPads? Box.net & TUAW want to find out

by Michael Rose (Apr 22nd, 2010)

The application period for the Box.net iPad offer has ended. Stay tuned for more on the progress of the experiment soon! There are plenty of cloud storage and collaboration services that sound good in an elevator pitch or seem promising when sketched on the back of a napkin; precious few ever ...

Macworld 2010: Quickoffice Connect Mobile Suite demonstration

by Steven Sande (Feb 13th, 2010)

If you've ever had a need to create or edit Microsoft Office documents on your iPhone or any other mobile device, you're probably familiar with Quickoffice. It's a solid app that provides a way to transfer documents to your iPhone, open them, make changes, and then save them back to the device. At ...

Macworld 2010: Box.net now supported in QuickOffice iPhone app

by Michael Rose (Feb 12th, 2010)

The storage mavens at Box.net took a few moments for us on the show floor at Macworld this week to demo the iPhone app that links to their service, which provides quick and consistent access to all your stored files; you can also view common file types, and even send download links to folders or ...

A boxful of awesome: Box.net iPhone

by Christina Warren (Oct 26th, 2008)

Update 2: Box.net will work with first generation iPod Touch units. The team is going to push an update very soon to make this visible on the app description page. You can download the program right now and it is fully compatible with all iPhone and iPod Touch units. Update: Box.net is looking into ...

Automator Action: Upload to Box.net

by David Chartier (Jan 14th, 2007)

We mentioned Box.net, an iDisk-like online hard drive service, back when we could begin mounting them on our Macs. To simplify uploading files to your Box.net account, Daniel Ryan has created an Automator action that not only lets you upload with a simple right click, but it also takes care of ...

Two ways to share iCal without .Mac

by Dan Lurie (Jun 15th, 2006)

iCal is great. I love the elegant interface, integration with other applications, and most of all, I love how easy it is to publish and share my calenders though .Mac. Unfortunately, paying 60 bucks a year just so I can share my calenders is just not something I can justify. Lucky for cheapskates ...

Mount a Box.net account on a Mac

by David Chartier (Jun 6th, 2006)

Box.net is an iDisk-like service that allows you to mount an 'internet hard drive' on your desktop (they offer both free and paid accounts). Great for easily and securely backing up, syncing and sharing files between computers. Previously, they apparently only offered a client for PCs, but ...

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