Wednesday, 4 July 2007

Golden Globe

So, you've arrived in work and you realise you've forgotten to bring in the print from home of that picture of an elephant defecating that you'd photoshop'd the head of your manager onto, thereby missing your desired window of wit.

Get Orb.

Or you've got to a friend's house and they're asking if you've got those pictures you were talking about of last week's piss-up/the kids at the birthday party/those schematics of the bank vault but you've left them at home on your PC/laptop.

Get Orb.

Or you're on the phone/email to someone and you're raving about the new Zodiac Mindwarp album. They ask you if you've got it on you so that they can try before they buy.

Get Orb.

Basically, you go to the Orb website; there to sign up and download their software. This software scans your hard drive (within parameters that you set - ie, you can have hidden folders, etc) and then, as long as your PC is on and Orb is running on it, you can log in to Orb on any terminal, anywhere in the world and, by proxy, access the folders you've given Orb access to.

In addition, you can set up a public page where you can drag/drop anything you like (from your files) thereon, then tell someone to go to that public page and they can look/listen to whatever you've dropped there. As an example, I've popped The National album, "Boxer", that I was raving about below on my public page so you can all listen to it for a bit.

Orb is a bit sluggish, as streaming providers tend to be. But, all in all, I love it.

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