Announcements Archives

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!

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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.

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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.

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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.

We are proud to announce the addition of an automatic file version history feature-set to our award winning cloud storage platform here at humyo.com – keeping track of changes to your files couldn’t be any more easier now thanks to our new automatic file version history.

File Version History is enabled for humyo Premium and humyo Workspace and works seamlessly in the background to capture any changes that are made to any of your files in real time. You then have the ability to restore, download or remove each version of a file through the humyo.com web-based file manager.

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We’re pleased to announce that from today the new and improved humyo SmartDrive is available for immediate download. Significant improvements to previous version(s) – focusing on speed, reliability and ease-of-use.

Before we run through the improvements in humyo SmartDrive (sure you’ll be impressed because we’re delighted with the results) let’s briefly touch on the benefits when you install humyo SmartDrive on your computer.

What is humyo SmartDrive and what are the benefits?

SmartDrive is a intelligent file sync and backup client – available for install for both Premium and Workspace customers. Highlighted below are a few of the benefits of humyo SmartDrive – further information can be found here.

• Sync files across multiple computers (both PC and Mac!)
• Access to your files even when your not connected
• Automatic backup of files to your online storage account
• Access your files directly from Windows Explorer or Finder

Let’s get back to the improvements in humyo SmartDrive.

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Late yesterday afternoon we silently released one of the most requested features here at humyo – a Recycle Bin.

Yes, the humyo File Manager now has it’s own Recycle Bin which will capture any files deleted from humyo including the SmartDrive! This means if you ever delete a file from humyo by mistake you will be able restore it simply by logging into humyo.com.

To make things simpler for our Workspace users we have split the Recycle Bin up, so that each Teamspace will have their own dedicated Recycle Bin.

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We’re pleased to announce the release of our new reporting feature within all of our online storage products, humyo free, Premium and Workspace.

The new reporting feature is accessible from humyo file manager and then by clicking on My Account details.

Grouped by common file type’s  the new reporting feature makes it easier to manage your online storage space.

To view your online space usage report, simply click here to access your humyo online storage account.