Concentrate and manage all your clouds with these powerful applications

A few years ago services proliferated that promised "secure" storage in the clouds.Small spaces of 4, 5 or 10 GB in which we could put folders with photos to move to workmates, songs to listen on other devices, or simply an all-important backup for when we need to format or clean up our team. Related

But that apogee led us to create accounts without control, to forget even what files we had in which service, not to take advantage of the technological opportunities offered by multi-account services.

Because in the world of high definition, 4GB may seem like a minutia , but when we concentrate and control all those clouds from an app, we can unify 150GB , completely free , and manage them on the fly.And that we are only talking about zero-cost accounts.The possibilities are multiplied if we use business solutions.Luckily, there are applications that do all this and more: they raise a extra security wall in each of our cloud drives .

CLOUDMOUNTER

The Eltima Software team, parents of which for many is the best torrent file manager in the world (FOLX), gave birth to CloudMounter a long time ago, with the goal of centralizing all those online storage clouds from the same system What it does is create virtual hard drives that you can mount and unmount to add or remove files on the fly .It makes it so simple that it overwhelms.

Among its compatible systems is Dropbox, Google Drive, Box and OneDrive , although it also offers support for virtual disks from the FTP and SFTP directories, with the possibility of adding SSL (in Spanish, » safe ports layer ») and encrypt file by file.The only thing that the application asks us to do is to log in to each service, whether it's Amazon S3 or BackBlaze.

Once logged in, the application saves our password and we will only have to choose which cloud we will use.We can keep them all active, rename them and manage them without needing to be synchronized to the internet all the time, which can be interpreted as a extra space in our root HD .When we reconnect to the Internet, the service will be updated.

Of course, if we do not make professional use of this service, or if we only reduce our use to the Google Drive framework, we may not need an app like this, since its lifetime guarantee exceeds 44 euros.

MULTCLOUD

Another smart alternative.MultCloud does not bet on mounting disks on our desktop, although it does offer the possibility of managing unlimited clouds and moving files through them .That is, if we have several accounts, we can synchronize them all.previous service, it has filters that identify the file formats.

MultCloud not only allows you to synchronize files between popular services such as Dropbox , we can also use FTP or WebDav directories.In each free account we have 2TB of traffic and two threads of simultaneous file transfer.The payment account allows us to manage all business accounts, from MySQL, pCloud, to lighter services such as Mediafire or MEGA .

CLOUDII

Now we jump from PC and Mac to stop at a similar alternative in Android.Cloudii is committed to Google Drive, Dropbox, Skydrive, Box, OwnCloud, Copy, Yandex, FTP/SFTP, WebDav and Sugarsync.It is not as versatile as MultCloud, but it gives us the same control guarantees and file management between accounts.

By power, we can even synchronize our clouds between different devices .For example, if we create a WhatsApp backup or a dedicated folder for the camera photos , it will be kept updated so that we can use it from any other device.

One of its greatest guarantees is found in its interface.Intuitive result and part of a modular model similar to that of Windows 10: it does not matter if our convertible, tablet or mobile phone has more or less inches, the interface is re-scaled and adjusted to the width of the monitor, sending messages using push notifications quite intuitive.

CYBERDUCK

Cyberduck is an open source and absolutely free FTP client, which offers the possibility of accessing services that other apps cannot, such as Windows Azure or Rackspace Cloud Files.

In fact, this is one of the most versatile models: is compatible with Mac OS X Keychain and Bonjour networks .And Windows performance is overwhelmingly agile, reading the proxy configuration to encrypt with password each access.

Among his abilities we highlight the possibility of duplicating files between servers, resuming interrupted downloads, creating directories from the services as if we were in his native app-that is, we do not need to access Dropbox to create a folder path-and the guarantee of being translated into more than twenty languages, something that your rivals cannot compete with.

ODRIVE

Once again, we don't need to pay to access good software.Odrive is a guarantee of quality, with the compatibility of integrate more than 20 services -from Slack to Amazon Cloud Drive, from Instagram to Box.net-in your system and complete synchronization with the desktop, as if we were in the root directories of the system.

Its two strengths reside in its clean interface and easy synchronization capability, using the Progressive Sync engine itself.And best of all, as MEGA promoted a few years ago, encrypts each file uploaded with the standard of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) of the USA, the protocol AES-256 -the most popular and safe system of today-.

And what does that mean? That if someone could access our disk and download the files, each one would have a unique password that would take years to decipher to a conventional computer .An exhausting job that nobody would bother to carry out.

TRANSMIT

But if what we need is speed , take advantage of the maximum data transmission capacity, this software developed by Panic is practically the leader: Transmit, which is already in its fifth version, emulates the different widgets on the desktop, and even speeds up the performance of native systems.

It is not compatible with as many services as its rivals-that is, it does not allow us to manage data from our Facebook or files that we upload to Wetransfer-, but it is masagil when it comes to ordering, correcting, uploading and downloading files.

In addition, Mac users would appreciate its full compatibility with iDisk/WebDAV, Spotlight and Automator , so that it is possible to find any file as if it were on the internal disk of our computer.wrong, right?

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