Gladinet makes Sky Drive easy

A couple of days ago I told you about Windows Live Sky Drive and how I was using it for a back up solution.

One of the draw backs with Sky Drive is that the web interface can be a little sluggish, but I’ve recently been trying out an application that does away with the web interface altogether.

Gladinet sits running in the background on your PC and creates a virtual network drive called ‘resources Z:’ and creates folders on this drive that maps your Sky Drive account or accounts with Google Picasa, Google Docs, ADrive or Amazon Storage. I’ve only tried it with Sky Drive but it's made life so much easier.

You just drag and drop into this folder and the files are uploaded onto Sky Drive in the background. It works just like an ordinary drive on your PC or network so you can also drag and drop files from the Sky Drive onto you local computer just as easily.

I’ve installed Gladinet onto my main desktop PC and my notebook and each PC can access the Sky Drive from ‘My Computer’ with Drag and Drop.

So far I’m really pleased with Gladinet with the one little fly in the ointment. When uploading or downloading a large group of files it will use all of the network bandwidth it can get hold of to make the process as quick as possible. This can make other internet applications sluggish while Gladinet does the transfer. I would like to see a bandwidth limiter built into Gladinet so that it can be set to limit how much of your internet pipe it uses.

Gladinet is in Beta at the moment so lots can change and there may be a few little bugs that need ironing out but I’ve found it very stable so far. You can learn more about Gladinet and download it at http://www.gladinet.com/