For those of you who use Windows and also have a Gmail account: check this out.
GMail Drive is a Shell Namespace Extension that creates a virtual filesystem around your Google Gmail account, allowing you to use Gmail as a storage medium.
GMail Drive creates a virtual filesystem on top of your Google Gmail account and enables you to save and retrieve files stored on your Gmail account directly from inside Windows Explorer. GMail Drive literally adds a new drive to your computer under the My Computer folder, where you can create new folders, copy and drag’n’drop files to.
I’ve been using Gmail this way for a while now, as a backup tool — mailing myself copies of what I’m working on from time to time during the day. Now, using this great little tool, I should be able to automate the process so I don’t even have to think about it any more. Whoopee!
There are some minor limitations: the shell doesn’t like filenames longer than forty characters. But this isn’t a problem for me.
