Add a Launch Icon to your Blackberry
February 17, 2010 by Jacques De Bruyne · Leave a Comment
Nomadesk makes it easy to access your files wherever you are. Now Blackberry owners can access their fileservers with a quick launch icon on their home screen. Launching Nomadesk from the home screen will bring you to the login page of mynomadesk.mobi for quick and easy access to your files.
To install the launch icon on your Blackberry:
1. Navigate your Blackberry to www.nomadesk.com/blackberry
2. Click on the “add quick launch icon” link
3. The quick launch icon will be installed on your Blackberry
Clicking on the new quick launch icon will take you directly to the mynomadesk.mobi login page.
Tips & Tricks: Call for Entries
February 16, 2010 by Jacques De Bruyne · 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.
Receive Faxes to Your Team Fileserver
February 3, 2010 by Jacques De Bruyne · Leave a Comment
Paper faxes are quickly becoming a thing of the past. There are services that allow faxes to be sent and received via computer and email. If you are using a service like MyFax or eFax, it is very easy to set it up to send faxes directly to your Team Fileserver using Email2Folder to backup and share with your team.
Double-click the drive icon of the Team Fileserver you would like to use and create a folder on the top level of your Fileserver. You can use capital letters but the folder cannot have spaces. We will call ours “Faxes”.
You can also log in to your account at mynomadesk.com to add the folder to your Team Fileserver by clicking on the Add Folder icon.
Go to your online fax service of choice and set the email address the faxes are sent to “Faxes@MyTeamFileserver1.nomadesk.com“.
Note: replace “MyTeamFileserver1″ with the name of your Team Fileserver on which you created the folder.
Now you are ready to receive faxes directly to your Team Fileserver to be synchronized and available to members of your team.
New Feature: FolderLink
January 13, 2010 by Jacques De Bruyne · Leave a Comment
Nomadesk already provides easy file sharing for all files on a Nomadesk fileserver with FileLink and unlimited guest access. FolderLink takes ad-hoc file sharing to the next level. Any folder on a Nomadesk Team Fileserver can now be shared via myNomadesk.com.
How does it work?
Follow the steps below and you will be sharing folders with friends and co-workers within seconds.
Note: make sure you have a working Nomadesk Team Fileserver (either in trial or through a subscription plan). Click here for download and installation instructions.
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Log in with your Nomadesk account on myNomadesk.com.
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Select your Fileserver and browse to the location containing the folder you wish to share.
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On the folder you wish to share, click the down arrow or right-click and choose FolderLink.
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Select the notify option if you wish to be notified by email when someone has accessed the folder.
5. If necessary, change the expiration time of the link. Tip: this option can be handy if you want to increase or lower the security level of the folder link or if you want your team members to download and review the contents of the folder before a given deadline.
6. Enter your addressees email addresses, type a subject and a message, and click Send.
Your recipients will receive an email which contains a FolderLink. When they click this link, they will be redirected to a secured Nomadesk website from which they can download the file.
Note: only the contents in the root of the folder will be shared with your recipients, no subfolders will be visible.
Share A File On A Nomadesk Fileserver From Your Own Email Client
December 16, 2009 by Jacques De Bruyne · Leave a Comment
All files that reside on a Nomadesk Fileserver can be easily shared with the Nomadesk FileLink™ feature. The Nomadesk FileLink feature is a quick and easy way to create a public download link to any file on your Nomadesk Fileserver. With this feature, Nomadesk lets you send a pre-formatted email with the file download location directly from Nomadesk.
In some cases however, you might prefer sending the public download link from your own email client program so you can freely choose the style, content and originator of the email.
How?
1. Start by creating a FileLink as you normally would:
- Select the file you wish to share and right-click the file (Windows) or use Ctrl+F (Mac).
- Choose Nomadesk Tools > Send FileLink.
- Enter your own email address in the To field, type a subject and a message, and click Send.
2. Copy the URL from the FileLink email you just received and paste it in a new email which you can fully customize and send to your recipient(s).
When your recipients click this link, they will be redirected to a secured Nomadesk website from which they can download the file.
Note: Since the FileLink was created with your own email address, you will get a confirmation that you accessed this FileLink each time someone clicks the FileLink (if you selected the confirmation option ). If you need to know who accessed the FileLink, send the FileLink directly from Nomadesk. The choice is yours….
How to backup your Outlook Personal Folder to a Nomadesk Fileserver
November 18, 2009 by Jacques De Bruyne · Leave a Comment
Are your emails secured?
Changed to another email provider and thought you copied all your files over? Just reinstalled your computer thinking your personal folders were on that other drive? Computer crashed? Inadvertently deleted your email?
Sounds familiar?
With a simple tool and Nomadesk, you’ll never have to worry about losing your Outlook emails again.
Find out how to backup your Outlook folders to a Nomadesk Fileserver
When working with Microsoft Office Outlook, all your emails are typically stored in the personal folders store (PST file). Since this file is constantly in use it becomes difficult to backup.
However, with a simple Microsoft Office Outlook tool backing up your personal folders is child play.
Thanks to the Microsoft Personal Folders backup tool backup copies can be created of your .PST files at regular intervals, in Outlook 2002 and later versions, making it easy to keep all of your Outlook folders safely backed up. The Personal Folders Backup tool allows you to choose which of your .PST files you wish to back up, and how often you wish to back them up.
Note: the Personal Folders Backup tool only backs up .PST files. If you are working on a Microsoft Exchange Server, your server mailbox folders are probably backed up regularly by your server administrator.
Installation
- Download and install the Microsoft Outlook Personal Folders Backup tool. (Quit Outlook before installing)
- Follow the instructions on the screen to complete the installation.
How to use
- Start Outlook and go to the File menu, click Backup.
- Click Options.
- Select the check box for each item you want to back up.
- Click Browse and select your Nomadesk Fileserver to backup your PST file to and then click Open.
- Backup will start on exiting Outlook.
Mind your bandwidth
Have Microsoft Outlook automatically remind you to make a backup copy of this file (select the Remind me to backup every 7 days).
Note that when backing up large PST files, your bandwidth usage might increase considerably.
If you have any tips to share with us, leave them in the comments.
Send Pictures From Your Phone to Your Fileserver
November 5, 2009 by Jacques De Bruyne · Leave a Comment
Whether your phone is getting too full of pictures, you want to back them up or just want to share them with a group, the Email2Folder function of the Nomadesk Team Fileservers makes it easy. For this week’s tip, we’ll show you how to send your pictures directly from your mobile phone to your Team Fileserver.
To start you need to set up a folder on your Team Fileserver.
Double-click the drive icon of the Team Fileserver you would like to use and create a folder on the top level of your Fileserver. You can use capital letters but the folder cannot have spaces. We will call ours “MyMobilePictures”.
You can also login to your account at mynomadesk.com to add the folder to your Team Filserver by clicking on the Add Folder icon.
Once you have created the folder, you are ready to start adding pictures from your mobile phone. Simply create a new email with the selected pictures attached and address the email to mymobilepictures@myteamfileserver.nomadesk.com (replace myteamfileserver with the name of your fileserver).
When the Nomadesk fileserver syncs, your pictures will show up on a subfolder with your email address along with your email text. You can also download, share and even preview your pictures online when you login at mynomadesk.com.
iPhone App-Style Shortcut
October 26, 2009 by Jacques De Bruyne · 2 Comments
Nomadesk released an updated version of the mobile access site last week. With the release of the new mynomadesk.mobi site, your fileservers and important documents are even easier to access. The new mobile site is updated for all smartphones and optimized for the iPhone. In our first installment of Tips & Tricks we’ll show you how Nomadesk takes advantage of iPhone functions by allowing you to create a button on your home screen with a few simple steps to make it even easier to access.
Open the Safari browser on your iPhone and navigate to mynomadesk.mobi. When the login screen is loaded, tap on the “+” at the bottom of the screen.
An option screen will pop up from the bottom. Tap on the middle button, “Add to Home Screen”.
A dialog screen will appear with the option to label the home screen button. Click the “add” button in the top right of the screen when you’re done with the label. Hint: The home screen will only show the first 12 characters.
The icon is now on your home screen and selecting it will take you directly to the login screen of mynomadesk.mobi where your synced files will be ready for you to access. The Nomadesk icon can be moved and arranged like an app icon.
