Online file storage tool

HP’s new online storage service Upline has been having quite the growing pains over the past few days. We’ve heard that the service’s web interface went down several days ago, although the backups continued to function. But as of yesterday, everything appears to have gone down except for the telephone support, which doesn’t provide any information beyond an assurance that the engineering team is working on the problem (with no ETA for when it will be resolved).

If you work primarily from your computer (or computers) you’ve no doubt got a huge number of papers, files, notes, and various pieces of information that you need to store. If you’re like most people, you spend way too much time trying to locate and organize everything so that it’s readily available but not in your way.If you collaborate with others on projects, the problem of file storage gets even more complicated. Everyone working on the project needs real-time access to the files.Online file storage solutions are the perfect way to keep everything you need within easy access, even when you work from a different location or computer. Here (in no particular order) are ten of the best ways to organize, store, and share your files online.1. Basecamp. This online collaboration tool allows you to set different permissions for users on different projects and define milestones and to-do lists. 2. ***

Our previous post on using Amazon S3 storage service as a personal back-up option was quite popular. Though many pointed out that backing to that service wasn’t all that easy. Jeremy Zawodny has come up with a list of popular tools to help you with all that. Of the lot, the best one from ease of use standpoint seems to be JungleDisk. Still, if you don’t want to deal with the hassle and are looking for simple solutions, AOL, Box.Net and quite a few other services offer upto 5 GB storage for free. There are some file size restrictions, but hey, they are free. On the paid side of things, ***