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Hands on tour of the Amazon Cloud Drive and Amazon Cloud Player

By zaw2 March 29, 2011, 9:39 PM PDT

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Hands on tour of the Amazon Cloud Drive and Amazon Cloud Player

Introducing Amazon Cloud Drive

Introducing Amazon Cloud Drive

ntThe Amazon Cloud Drive allows you to upload and store documents, music, pictures and videos in the cloud, on the Amazon cloud. Competing with Google, Microsoft and Apple in the cloud space, it offers 5GB of free storage, and the option to buy additional storage for exponential costs.

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Hands on tour of the Amazon Cloud Drive and Amazon Cloud Player

Uploading MP3's and upload status page

Uploading MP3's and upload status page

ntThe intuitive display allows you to upload documents as and when you want to, and gives you a second by second status of how well the progress is going. You can even add more files to the queue while you wait for existing documents, music, pictures and videos to upload, and you can cancel them from the queue before they are uploaded. This screen can be ‘minimised’ with the Close [X] button at the top right, to allow you to carry on working in the cloud view.

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Hands on tour of the Amazon Cloud Drive and Amazon Cloud Player

Uploading office documents and upload status page

Uploading office documents and upload status page

ntNote here the number of different filetypes that are being added – from Word documents and other Office documents, to PowerPoint and PDF’s – you can upload practically any kind of document. 

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Hands on tour of the Amazon Cloud Drive and Amazon Cloud Player

Non-integrated viewing; Downloading files

Non-integrated viewing; Downloading files

ntBut when it comes to accessing them, don’t think you can access them from the web. No, you have to then go about downloading them manually one by one. The cloud storage facility is exactly that – for storage, unlike Windows Live SkyDrive which allows you to edit and view documents in the cloud view.

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Hands on tour of the Amazon Cloud Drive and Amazon Cloud Player

PDF's still a browser control

PDF's still a browser control

ntHowever, if you are only dealing with PDFs, you can of course still access these from within the browser if you wish. 

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Hands on tour of the Amazon Cloud Drive and Amazon Cloud Player

Introducing Amazon Cloud Player

Introducing Amazon Cloud Player

ntThe only ‘integrated’ feature is the listening back of MP3s, which can be bought from the Amazon MP3 Store, or uploaded from your local computer. But be warned, as Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols argues that there is “no privacy” from the authorities in the Cloud Drive.

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Hands on tour of the Amazon Cloud Drive and Amazon Cloud Player

Amazon MP3 Downloader

Amazon MP3 Downloader

ntTo download an MP3, you must install the Amazon MP3 Downloader to make this easier. Alternatively, you can simply hit “No, thanks” and have it done manually – which if you ask me, is far easier. 

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Hands on tour of the Amazon Cloud Drive and Amazon Cloud Player

Playing music from the 'cloud'

Playing music from the 'cloud'

ntThe Downloader does integrate with Windows Media Player and iTunes though, so it does allow you to reorganise your music files far easier.

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Hands on tour of the Amazon Cloud Drive and Amazon Cloud Player

Amazon MP3 Uploader

Amazon MP3 Uploader

ntNot satisfied with an integrated program, Amazon issued not one, but two applications – one to handle the uploading of MP3s and the other to control the downloading of MP3s. There is no synchronisation between the cloud and the computer; simply an upload, a store in the cloud and a download again.

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