Amazon adds file syncing to Cloud Drive desktop app

Online retailer Amazon has come a long way from its first virtual bookstore, merchandise, two electronic devices - the Amazon Kindle e-book reader and Kindle fire tablet. Amazon has practically dabbled with almost everything. The book retailer has now upgraded its desktop application to the next level by adding a file syncing feature.

Called File Sync, it will allow Amazon’s cloud users to view and access their files across all types of devices. So when a user installs the Amazon Cloud application on another device, for example, another Mac, they can easily synchronize files stored on the system where it has been originally stored.

Mac users will now be able to upload their albums straight to the Cloud Drive desktop application by selecting photographs from the desktop. Once they are uploaded, users can then view the pictures from their internet accounts from any device, which includes the Kindle Fire tablets.

The web storage can also be downloaded on the Android and Kindle operating systems, apart from others like the Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, Mac OS X 10.6 and Mac OS X 10.8 can easily download the cloud storage application of Amazon.

The retailer entered the cloud storage market nearly two years ago, competing with SkyDrive and Dropbox. Started for the purpose of storing music that was purchased from the retailer’s website, the desktop application, Cloud Drive, was created for Windows and Mac users to store files on the internet. But, when the web storage service was initially launched, the users had given it a low rating because it lacked a file sharing feature. Designed to be a lookalike of cloud storage just like the Dropbox, Amazon made up for the missing feature with its latest launch.

Now only time will tell how users will rate this new add-on feature.

Features of Cloud Drive app

· * S3 (Simple Storage Service)

· * No extra time wasted on re-copying files to multiple devices

· * Easy file sharing

· * Files are safe

· * Easily accessibility of files

· * Free 5GB storage

· * Desktop app plus mobile apps for Android and Kindle

· * Interface is quite speedy

· * Import up to 250 songs for free

· * Users in Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, and Windows 8, and Mac OS X 10.6 and 10.8

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