Dropbox (and similar cloud services) are awesome, but they don't give you that much control, security, or privacy over your files. If you want to take control into your own hands without losing the ...

Rafe Needleman reviews mobile apps and products for fun, and picks startups apart when he gets bored. He has evaluated thousands of new companies, most of which have since gone out of business.

Cloud services like OneDrive and Dropbox are dead-simple to set up and make multi-device file syncing an absolute breeze—but those services force you to stash your files on the company’s third-party ...

Some of you may have heard about the built-in backup application in Mac OS, called the Time Machine. Mac users like to believe it’s the perfect backup solution. This opinion might be too optimistic, ...

I love Dropbox, but there are some files I'm just not comfortable keeping in "the cloud," like my tax returns and bank statements. I also have huge media files that I'd like to sync between my ...

BitTorrent, the outfit that brought you the world’s most popular way to share large files and tears to the eye of musicians and film studios everywhere, hopes to take the evolution of the ...

Editor’s Note: This article, published in our August 2008 issue, includes information on .Mac, which will be replaced by MobileMe in early July. Any instructions may change significantly. Most people ...

Making files accessible between devices, while convenient, sometimes comes with privacy trade-offs or additional costs. Free cloud storage quotas run out too quickly and not everyone has the skills to ...