MM29 - OmniPresence & Copy.com

Time for a MacMontage this week, albeit with a bit of a theme. The theme is Sync and Storage, and I take a look at a couple of services I've been using over the past few weeks as alternatives to some tried and test services.

The first being OmniPresence, a possible alternative (or more likely supplement) to iCloud, and Copy.com, a potential alternative to Dropbox.

OmniPresence is a sync service built by the OmniGroup to support syncing between OSX and iOS devices. It has been built as an alternative to iCloud syncing, ostensibly to support the Omni range of products, but will support syncing any file format in OSX. OmniPresence is built into their supported iOS apps such as OmniOutliner, OmniGraffle and OmniGraphSketcher, and they provide a free Mac application to run OmniPresence on your Mac. In this tutorial, I take you through the setup and usage of OmniPresence in many different scenarios.

Copy.com is a syncing and iCloud service that potentially could be used as an alternative to Dropbox. With most, if not all of the features of Dropbox, Copy.com starts you off with 15GB of free storage (with another 5GB if you use a referral code such as http://screencastsonline.com/copy) and is over half the price of Dropbox if you have larger storage requirements. With full support for most major platforms plus iOS and Android apps, it's well worth checking out.

This full tutorial includes sections on:

• Omni Sync Server Account

  • Setting Up Mac App
  • Configuring on iOS
  • Syncing Non Omni App Files

• Copy - Dropbox Alternative?

  • Installing the Mac App
  • Using Copy Actions
  • Copy Preferences - File Management
  • Sharing Files With Copy
  • Using the Copy Website
  • Preferences - Notifications & Sharing