Tips & Tricks: Call for Entries
February 16, 2010 by staff · Leave a Comment
Have you figured out new ways to make use of your Nomadesk fileserver? Have you come up with some shortcuts to save time and get the most out of your fileserver? Share your own personal Tips & Tricks with us and get up to three months credited to your account.
We’re looking for unique, out-of the-box ways you use your Nomadesk fileserver to stretch the usefulness and get the most out of your fileservers. Review our existing Tips & Tricks to get an idea of what we’re looking for.
Simply send your step-by-step explanation of your tip to tips@nomadesk.com with your name and email address from your Nomadesk account.
For every accepted Tip or Trick you send in, we will credit your account with one free month of Nomadesk. If we use your submission, we will automatically credit your account with three months free.
Digital Nomad Contest Finalists
February 1, 2010 by staff · 4 Comments
The deadline has arrived for the Digital Nomad Video Contest and we have some great videos, including a couple of last minute entries. There are some amazing stories of people from around the world living the digital nomad lifestyle. Videos submitted included a couple of around the world trips, a paparazzi photographer chasing George Clooney in Belgium, a laptop theft on Walls St. and a day in the life of a digital nomad.
It is in the panel of judges hands now. They will pick the best video of the top ten to award the grand-prize of a digital nomad survival kit (netbook, Blackberry, MiFi, headset and Nomadesk) or 2 $1000 vouchers for airline tickets. All ten of the finalists will receive one year free of Nomadesk Team or Personal Fileserver.
Here are some of the finalists we thought exemplified the digital nomad experience. Feel free to let us know your favorites in the comments.
Post a Tweet, Get 4 Months Free
January 29, 2010 by staff · Leave a Comment
Help us spread the word and we’ll reward you by giving you extra months free on any new Nomadesk Fileserver. It’s as simple as a tweet to get 4 Extra Months Free for a Team or Personal Fileserver. Before February 28th, post a tweet ending with http://bit.ly/7×0GPx #nomadesk4free and you’re eligible to receive 4 months free.
How to enter:
- Post a tweet ending with http://bit.ly/7×0GPx #nomadesk4free
- Download Nomadesk and sign up for a new Fileserver
- Send an email to sandra.mitchem@nomadesk.com with your Twitter name
- We will automatically credit your account with 4 extra months for free
(Not so) Fine print:
- You must have a public Twitter account so we (and others) can see your tweet.
- One (4) four-month offer per Fileserver.
- Offer is only good for new Fileservers
- There is no limit on how many new Fileservers for which you can get the bonus months.
- Multiple Fileservers require multiple tweets (at least one per new Fileserver).
- You must sign up and pay for at least one month to receive the 4 months free.
- Offer expires February 28, 2010.
Pre-pay and Get Bonus Months
January 12, 2010 by staff · Leave a Comment
Save on cost, paper and time with Nomadesk yearly prepaid Fileservers
Choosing your yearly subscription plan is easy:
During the trial period, a purchase link is available in your Dashboard and redirects to the purchase page where you can choose your subscription plan and receive extra months for free.
Existing customers can contact our dedicated customer service team on www.nomadesk.com/support to convert their monthly plan to yearly.
Nomadesk subscription plans
Here are the specifics:
A Personal Fileserver is always prepaid and yearly.
Team Fileservers are prepaid on a monthly or yearly basis and have the following subscription plans:
- monthly
- 1 yearly – with 2 free extra months – 14 months of service
- 2 yearly – with 5 free extra months – 29 months of service
- 3 yearly – with 9 free extra months – 45 months of service
Accepted credit cards: Visa, MC, Amex
Available currencies: USD, EURO, CAD (depending on country)
Savings
- When purchasing one Fileserver on a 2 year subscription plan results in a monthly cost as low as $12.41.
- When purchasing 2 Team Fileservers on a 2-year subscription plan, savings are $150.00.
How?
- During your trial: click purchase link in the Dashboard
- Convert your monthly subscription plan to yearly: contact our customer service team on www.nomadesk.com/support
Open Letter from a Nomadesk User
January 7, 2010 by staff · Leave a Comment
Written by Sacha Vekeman
Sacha is a passionate technology marketeer, architect and founder of two UK start-ups and part-time management consultant working with CEO’s and Senior VPs at technology giants and high-tech start-ups in strategic marketing, business development, fundraising, visioneering and corporate development.
Sacha’s LinkedIn profile.
I am a gadget freak after having tested thousands pieces of software. I am always on the outlook for a software update, a completely new online service, or a beta release from a giant software maker.
Professionally I use software to increase my productivity. I am always looking for new tools that allow me to work more efficient, getting things done much faster and allowing me to communicate in a much more direct way. In a high-touch communicative world where individuals have 500 FaceBook friends, 1000 LinkedIn contacts and 3000 Twitter followers you need good technology.
I am very precise when testing and making new software part of my daily workflow. Also with Nomadesk I was cautious. I’ve waited until version 3 was released before installing and testing the software. What I first noticed was the friendly graphics and light install in terms of size and download.
After a smooth install of Nomadesk in less than 5 minutes on a Windows Vista computer the first thing which surprised me was the exact, but deep integration into my windows filesystem. I also noticed the simplicity of only having to go through 3, maybe 4 steps to configure Nomadesk.
I am very organized, I don’t like search for my personal structure. Search is a tool that makes you forget order, structure and hierarchy. Having to think hard how to structure something doesn’t make you forget and creates meaning and purpose to your content, that’s why I was a serious user of the Microsoft My Documents folder.
My Documents folder was organized in such a way that I could easily see a decade of career behind me with about 30,000 files created. Thirty thousand files in about ten years; talk about being a knowledge worker.
This excludes my other private digital assets, such as pictures (about 15,000 since 2003) and music (about 24,000 mp3s since 2006). I am not into video, besides buying some DVDs, which I don’t copy electronically (not yet I guess).
After having tested Nomadesk on my home desktop and professional laptop for four weeks, I noticed how fast it all works! And I can tell you, speed is everything, certainly when you deal with an enormous set of files and folders. I don’t like things slow: a non responding Windows Explorer or a slowly opening Word file, it just ruins my day.
I soon upgraded my PC to Windows7 and decided to subscribe to the Nomadesk service, as I had re-think how I organize my files and folders. It’s time to tidy up, and organize myself for the future, the next decade, maybe half century, as I see myself still working on my computer at the age of 85, accessing files since I was 25. That’s over 60 years of files I intent to keep and preserve.
Having checked with the 24/7 support operations of Nomadesk if Windows7 was supported, I decided to go for it. Again a smooth install, new OS and a new filestructure. (Opportunity for Nomadesk, tie V3 around the launch of windows7 !!! When people upgrade their OS, they want to do things different).
Once Nomadesk was up and running I started to create team servers as following. For every company I work for I created a new team server. Why? Because I work as a consultant and want to offer a differentiating service to allow 24/7 access to all files I have created for my clients, by an easy sharing environment, but while not having to take the penalty of taking massive amounts of time to upload files individually, work directly in an online service such as google Apps (I am not always online, but like to work wherever I can) or using online/offline sharing tools that are slow, slow, and slow!!!
Setting up a Team Fileserver is easy, and allows you to create it as some kind of network drive. The capacity of the team server is serious, 106 GB, certainly more than enough as a company folder, as my rule of thumb in professional life is 5 years of work is 10 GB of data, or 2 GB per year; a lot of capacity available.
Also the scalability is nice. Just add another Team Fileserver or Personal Fileserver and you have another 100 GB at your disposal. This is a must, certainly in a massively digital world, where data storage is still at the heart of the digital economy, just having returned from a two-day StorageExpo exhibition.
The choice between a Team and Personal Fileserver is not a functionality choice, but a sharing choice. I don’t use personal servers as much yet as team servers, as everything I do in life, I want to share, even privately, hence the success of Facebook, Flickr or YouTube. Therefore, I also organize my family life with my wife around a Team Fileserver, allowing her to access my personal files and digital media over Nomadesk. She can even access my professional folders, in case something happens to me.
Web Worker Daily Article
December 30, 2009 by staff · Leave a Comment
Synchronize Files Online With Nomadesk
Thursday Bram from the GigaOM network posted an article about the broad offerings of Nomadesk and touches on the features that make it especially attractive to digital nomads.
If you’re on the go, there are several options for managing and synchronizing your files, but Nomadesk manages to stand out from the crowd with several handy features. The service uses a desktop application to manage files (available in both Windows and Mac flavors), although an online dashboard is also available.
Click here for the entire article.
Digital Nomad Contest Deadline Extended
December 22, 2009 by staff · Leave a Comment
Fire up those webcams and camcorders for the holidays. The Digital Nomad Video Contest has been extended to January 31, 2010. Share your best Digital Nomad story and win a Digital Nomad Survival Kit consisting of a Dell Netbook, Blackberry Bold 9000, Novatel MiFi, Logitech headset, backpack and three-year subscription to Nomadesk, OR… two $1000 vouchers for airline tickets to travel anywhere.
The way this works
Of course, read the official rules for the details, but it works something like this:
Make a video that tells a Digital Nomad story. It could be a great story told from your webcam or take us on your holiday vacation. It doesn’t need to be a big production, just entertain us. After you upload it to the Digital Nomad YouTube Group, tweet it, Facebook it, do what ever it takes to get people to vote for your video. The top ten vote getters will automatically win a one-year Team Fileserver from Nomadesk and be entered in the finals.
The top ten videos will be judged by our illustrious panel on originality, use of technology and impact of story.
Good luck and have a happy and safe holiday.
Nomadesk Named A Bell Certified Solution
December 16, 2009 by staff · Leave a Comment
Certification Affirms Nomadesk as a Scalable, Secure, Easy-to-Use Platform for Bell Customers
New York, NY – December 16, 2009 – Nomadesk, the easiest and most secure on-demand file sharing software, today was named a Bell Certified Solution. This certification is part of Nomadesk’s ongoing global initiative to partner with leading wireless providers. Under the agreement, Bell Canada will begin offering its SOHO and SMB customers access to Nomadesk’s cloud computing technology, which allows users to share, synchronize, encrypt, backup and store important documents with as many team members as needed. The service includes virtual file servers that give users online and offline access to their data from anywhere, any computer or mobile phone, and at anytime.
“We have rigorously tested Nomadesk on Bell Mobility’s networks and devices and are excited to offer this innovative cloud computing technology to our customer base. Nomadesk will bring our customers new and secure ways to share files and documents in order to boost efficiency of all team members,” said Chris Hubbell, Partner Solution Manager, Bell Mobility. “With Nomadesk’s scalability, we will be able to reduce our customers’ infrastructure costs and dramatically boost their agility.”
Millions of people risk losing their unprotected, critical data every day. As the amount of unprotected data stored on multiple devices increases, it becomes harder to synchronize and easier to lose. Keeping data secure, synchronized, backed up and available can be expensive and require in-house IT expertise. Whether customers are online or offline, working at the office or on the road, the Nomadesk service allows business teams to secure, sync and share data with no limits or change in behavior. Each virtual file server acts just like a hard drive, storing important documents in one place with local and remote access from a PC, Mac or iPhone. Users simply drag and drop their docs into a virtual file server, and files are immediately encrypted, backed up and available for file sharing.
Nomadesk CEO Filip Tack said: “We are proud to be named a Bell Certified Solution. Nomadesk is the very first on-demand file sharing and synchronization solution to receive this kind of certification. Bell Canada will be marketing Nomadesk to millions of its SMB and SOHO customers. We believe this initiative will spark many similar partnerships with other leading wireless companies looking to bolster their service offering.”
To learn more about Nomadesk, visit: www.nomadesk.com
About Nomadesk
With U.S. headquarters in New York City, Nomadesk is a leading provider of on-demand file sharing software that enables digital nomads or geographically dispersed professionals to easily share, sync, encrypt, backup and store files from any location, whether online or offline. Bringing the power of cloud computing to small businesses, Nomadesk alleviates the hassles and minimizes the high costs of traditional document management solutions, as well as online storage pay-per-user models. For only $15 per month per file server, an unlimited number of team members can access, share and save docs with unlimited* storage capacity. In addition, TheftGuard™ provides advanced tracking and allows users to spot a stolen or misplaced device on Google Maps and remotely shred all important documents. Click here to download a free 30-day trial. To learn more about Nomadesk, visit www.nomadesk.com, become a Nomadesk fan or hear how Nomadesk is helping some of our customers.
* Subject to Fair Use Policy
Contact Info:
John Sperrazzo
Eye-To-Eye Communications, Inc.
858-565-9800
Nomadesk Helps SMBs Combat Productivity Loss From H1N1 Pandemic
New York, NY – November 17, 2009 – Operating virtually is becoming ever more important for small businesses. Over the past decade, companies working from virtual offices have received many benefits over their brick and mortar counterparts. With issues such as the H1N1 pandemic looming over small businesses, Nomadesk, developer of the easiest and most secure on-demand file sharing software, is bringing solace to many of its SMB and SOHO customers. Small businesses challenged with paid sick leave policies and the inability to plan for productivity losses should their small office become contaminated with the flu, can begin looking at cost-effective ways to set up their employees to work from home if needed. Check out Nomadesk Blog for ongoing tips and tricks.
Now, without having to invest large sums of money to build a VPN infrastructure, or invest in IT and software maintenance, small businesses can provide VPN-like features to their employees for a low monthly fee with Nomadesk. Nomadesk is a virtual file server that allows employees to access their work from anywhere, anytime. Documents are encrypted, saved, synchronized and backed up both locally and on the way to the cloud, making it seamless for employees to work from home. Nomadesk gives individuals access to their files when working online and offline. Nomadesk’s virtual drives act just like a hard drive, storing important documents in one place with remote access. Users simply drag and drop their docs into the virtual file server, and files are immediately encrypted, backed up and available for file sharing.
According to the Federal Bureau of Labor Statistics, tens of millions of people, or nearly 40 percent of workers in America receive no paid sick leave. With the H1N1 flu spreading across the U.S, this statistic takes on added importance. If workers can’t afford to take time off, the flu has a better chance of spreading through workplaces and even schools. Kids are showing up sick because parents can’t be home with them. Even some companies that provide paid sick days have policies that make it difficult to call in sick, like giving demerits each time someone misses a day.
“As legislation is working feverishly on enforcing paid sick leave for all businesses so as to stop the spread of H1N1,” said Nomadesk CEO Filip Tack, “companies can begin to look at ways to help their employees be able to stay home with sick kids, or fully recover from the flu by setting them up to work virtually from home. Nomadesk is a low-cost tool that lets small businesses quickly and easily give their employees access to their work files from home in a very secure way.”
Nomadesk is the most affordable product on the market offering unlimited* storage, online/offline access and giving an unlimited number of team members access to virtual file servers. Whether using Nomadesk in the office, at home, or on the go, small businesses can stay connected and productive while ensuring their data is protected (256-bit encryption), available to share (accessible to unlimited team members), synchronized and backed up from both their PCs, laptops (with MyNomadesk.com) or cell phone (with MyNomadesk.mobi). SMBs interested in test driving Nomadesk can download a free 30-day trial at Nomadesk.com.
“Other tools such as Skype, Gmail, GoToMeeting and WebEx allow employees to participate in company meetings from home, giving them the ability to be face-to-face if they choose,” added Filip Tack. “So, for a nominal investment in technology, companies can add some insurance to their livelihood, even when fear of H1N1 looms.”
About Nomadesk
With U.S. headquarters in New York City, Nomadesk is a leading provider of on-demand file sharing software that enables digital nomads or geographically dispersed professionals to easily share, sync, encrypt, backup and store files from any location, whether online or offline. Bringing the power of cloud computing to small businesses, Nomadesk alleviates the hassles and minimizes the high costs of traditional document management solutions, as well as online storage pay-per-user models. For only $15 per month per file server, an unlimited number of team members can access, share and save docs with unlimited* storage capacity. In addition, TheftGuard™ provides advanced tracking and allows users to spot a stolen or misplaced device on Google Maps and remotely shred all important documents. Click here to download a free 30-day trial. To learn more about Nomadesk, visit www.nomadesk.com, become a Nomadesk fan or hear how Nomadesk is helping some of our customers.
* Subject to Fair Use Policy
Contact Info:
John Sperrazzo / Eye-To-Eye Communications, Inc. / 858-565-9800 / john@eyetoeyepr.com
Virtual Working To Combat Productivity Loss from Flu
November 12, 2009 by staff · Leave a Comment
Operating virtually is becoming ever more important for small businesses. Over the past decade, companies working from virtual offices have received many benefits and advantages over their brick and mortar counterparts. From surviving the downturn after the dotcom era as well as our recent recession, to reaping in the benefits of energy conservation and low overhead, small businesses operating virtually have gained many advantages to shield them from the storm.
Today, issues such as the Pandemic of the H1N1 flu are challenging employers, especially small businesses, who have been stringent in their sick leave policy and who realize the negative impact that flu can have on their productivity.
According to the Federal Bureau of Labor Statistics, tens of millions of people, or nearly 40 percent of workers in America receive no paid sick leave. With the H1N1 flu spreading across the country, this statistic takes on added importance. If workers can’t afford to take time off, the flu has a better chance of spreading through workplaces and even schools. Kids are showing up sick because parents can’t be home with them. Even some companies that provide paid sick days have policies that make it difficult to call in sick, like giving demerits each time someone misses a day.
Ellen Galinsky, president of the Families and Work Institute, said H1N1 had spurred an attitude shift throughout corporate America.
As legislation is working feverishly on enforcing paid sick leave for all businesses so as to stop the spread of H1N1, companies can begin to look at ways to help their employees be able to stay home with sick kids, or fully recover from the flu by setting them up to work virtually from home.
By offering the flexibility to work from home, small businesses can reap the benefits of continued productivity despite facing flu epidemics. Now, without having to invest large sums of money to build a VPN infrastructure, or invest in IT and software maintenance, small businesses can provide VPN-like features to their employees for a low monthly fee with Nomadesk. Nomadesk is a virtual file server that allows employees to access their work from anywhere, anytime. Documents are encrypted, saved and backed up both locally and on the way to the cloud, making it seamless for employees to work from home.
Other tools such as Skype and WebEx allow employees to participate in company meetings from home, giving them the ability to be face-to-face if they choose. So, for a nominal investment in technology, companies can add some insurance to their livelihood, even when fear of H1N1 loom.