![]() ![]() It cannot rely on an internet connection. I like Wolfram Alpha, and it can do things that none of the calculators I’ll discuss here can do but you can’t depend on always having a good connection. I’ve been in meetings in downtown Chicago where I couldn’t get a cell signal to save my life. If I’d needed internet access to do a simple calculation, my clients would’ve started looking for a new engineer. Calca is an interesting idea, and I can see it being very useful on a device with a keyboard, but typing out calculations on an iPhone is inefficient and having extra rows of keys leaves too little room for the display. I enjoy watching MyScript Calculator turn my handwriting into an equation, but that’s no way to get work done. Have some pride.Īpple’s calculator is a basic five-function 1 calculator in portrait mode It can’t be just a four-function calculator. That switches to a scientific calculator in landscape mode. If this fits your needs, you’re done searching and you’ve saved yourself a few bucks. Well, it’s been a while now since I switched from Wuala to SpiderOak. Without further ado, now that I’ve used Wuala for 1 or 2 years and SpiderOak for more than half a year, maybe it’s time for, say, a comparison table □ I also included Dropbox, which I’ve used intermittently for an even longer time, so that maybe their fans will see the error of their way ^^ Comparison tableĥ00 MiB lifetime per referral, max 16 GiBĪnd I don’t regret it, so, in a way, thank you Oracle for releasing Java 7 which broke Wuala (and thank you Wuala for taking massive time to fix it – is it even fixed yet, actually?). The “space race” with prices valid for 2 yearsĮmployees can technically read your files YES, regular lifetime GiB giveways & contests ![]() Space-wise, SpiderOak and Dropbox both provide nice ways to earn some free additional storage, but only at SpiderOak are the promo upgrades valid lifetime. I’d say get it while it last, because I’m not sure such good offers will still be sustainable when they have 10x more customers. You could argue that Dropbox lets you accumulate more storage upgrade via referring. Although this is true, this is still capped not too far from SpiderOak, is slower (500MiB instead of 1GiB per referral) and probably also much harder (do you know many people who haven’t already heard of Dropbox?). And the difference can be fairly quickly (over-)compensated via promo upgrades.įeature-wise, I’d be tempted to say Wuala is the richest. Maybe the easiness to add more features was the reason behind their terrible choice of Java. SpiderOak, not in Java, comes very close though. Actually, the feature to pick a file to back up can be seen as the equivalent to drag’n back up, only I believe drag’n back up to be more usable. Still, I’m globally not too satisfied with the desktop clients of all those 3: SpiderOak and Wuala are somewhat complicated (which is probably due to their richness in features), Dropbox on the opposite is totally simplistic and lacking features. Privacy-wise, obviously SpiderOak and Wuala are both winners, while Dropbox is simply rubbish. The formers have no access to your files, the latter does, period. It is to be noted, however, that if you have at some point the need to use the web client, Wuala wins then, because they load some heavy Java client, allowing you to still perform the decryption on your side, while it’s unclear what SpiderOak does (but they probably perform the decryption on their side when you’re on their web client). Still, that doesn’t matter too much in my opinion, because when you’re on a computer where you can’t install the client, you shouldn’t be typing your password at all in the first place. Last but not least, I just re-ran Dropbox’s installer: it doesn’t have a single option! (like, choosing where to install the program) As far as I remember, Wuala isn’t a lot better in that area, unavoidably dropping file in the system’s partition. That leaves us with SpiderOak having the only “normal” clean installer. So, which one should you pick? If you value your privacy or have sensitive data (or both), Dropbox is definitely a no-go, unless you’re willing to first encrypt locally before sending to Dropbox (like, say, putting a TrueCrypt volume in your Dropbox folder? ^^). That leaves you with just Wuala and SpiderOak, and at this point I see no reason not to choose the latter, except if you want more space without either referring a couple of friends or participating in their next contest/game. ![]()
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