You may or may not have noticed, but for about a year humyo has been living under a Pseudo-name…
We have always wanted to keep you informed about humyo news and so about 12 months ago we launched our Twitter page, but unfortunately the name humyo was taken??! Name-squatters had slipped in and swiped the humyo name before we had a chance to claim it for ourselves.
Karoo, the UK’s fastest broadband provider as published by Broadband Choices, are announcing a new strategic partnership with humyo offering customers the opportunity to backup and protect their valuable data, access it from anywhere and even share it with friends and co-workers.
As the number of people using humyo grows so too does the need to expand our storage capacity!
Our tech gurus Nick and Rob have just finished adding additional storage to the humyo Data Centre within the old Bank of England Vault in Manchester. After practically living within its blast proof walls for the last few days, Rob reminds us that “other online storage companies have ‘downtime’. humyo is designed to never lose service, particularly during maintenance work.“.
Our recent upgrade means that humyo has enough storage capacity to save about 7 billion photos! Think about it, that’s a photograph of every single person on Earth!
Easyspace, one of the UKs leading providers of domain name and web hosting services, has announced the launch of a partnership with Humyo, Europe’s largest independent online storage and desktop backup provider.
As part of this new venture, Easyspace customers will be given 30 days free access to a Premium Level Humyo account, with a 10% discount on the full price if they decide to upgrade their trial.
Humyo is a multi-award winning mass market online storage service which enables users to backup and sync their data over multiple devices, access it from anywhere and share it with friends and co-workers. Using intuitive Desktop software, Humyo can continuously backup your selected files and folders by instantly replicating any change on your local machine to the Humyo online storage platform. This technology, in turn, provides a variety of additional benefits for users of the service including easy data recovery, synchronisation, speed and efficiency, security and more.
During the latter part of 2009 humyo engaged in a considerable amount of research and user testing. The aim of which was to find out exactly what you want from your humyo account.
The results were startling!
Amazingly, 40% of respondents said they only ever use Email and almost all humyo users still rely heavily on Email for sending or receiving files.
Accidentally deleted half of your dissertation? Replaced photos of your wedding with photos of your last night out?
Now users of humyo Free can restore, download or remove previous versions of files which you have edited, with historic file versions kept for up to 30 days. Premium and Workspace users continue to have unlimited version history.
All in all it’s been a good week for protecting your files. In line with industry best practices we have recently updated our authentication protocol offering increased protection against “man in the middle” attacks.
For those of you lucky enough to grasp the ever increasing depths to which mobile technology ventures, our mobile site now features a ‘remember me’ function. Which will save your fingers from any risk of R.L.I (repetitive log-in injury).
Overall, the new authentication protocol improves security and lays the groundwork for future integration with other authentication systems (such as OpenID, Facebook Connect).
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Java has always been a thorn in our side here at humyo.com due to it’s implementation within some browsers. So we are delighted to announce the release of an improved Java loading system for our web file manager.
We utilise Java to enable some advanced features within your browser which wouldn’t be possible without it such as multiple file downloads, drag and drop uploading and the ability to edit files directly on your computer and have the changes saved straight to humyo. Read the rest of this entry
Humyo users, we just got better! Thank you for all your feedback, we took it onboard and our guys have worked hard to bring you our latest SmartDrive update.
SmartDrive 2.2.0.9 for both Windows and Mac OS X makes your life easier, with improved UI performance and a fixing of the problem with resuming partially-synced files being amongst the many changes.
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The 2.2.0.9 update is now available and you can view the Changelog here
You may notice that next time you log into the humyo web-based file manager that things look a little different. In our continuing effort to make the humyo experience as pleasant as possible for you, the user, we’ve had a long hard look through the range of icons that we use. As of today we have refreshed the entire set, adding our own style to each and every one.
A sample of the new range:
You may also notice that we are supporting the ‘Share Icon Project‘. The idea of the project being to support a single standard visual representation of the concept of sharing, be it with services like Twitter or Facebook, or with your friends directly through humyo. By supporting the share icon project we hope to help make this symbol synonymous with the idea of sharing, both on humyo and throughout the internet.
You can learn more about the share icon project over on there site found here.
The holiday season is upon us once again and if you’re like me, you’ll be seeing lots of long lost friends and relatives over the next few days.
This will be a chance to snag lots of new photos and a fair bit of video footage too, but after the snow has settled and everyone heads back home wouldn’t it be nice to be able to let everyone view them, or even better, gather everyone’s into one place for the whole family to access?
Well you can do this and so much more with humyo.com and I’ll step you through what I’ll be doing this evening to make sure all the family have access to all our festive photos and videos.
Before we start make sure your logged into your humyo.com account, if you don’t have one you can create one now for free and then follow the steps listed below. Read the rest of this entry
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