I repeat, the interface here is very nice and polished, just as I expected from Max and Jonathan (Schoening and Castro, Linebreak designers and developers). The main screen is some sort of dashboard where you can review your total uploads and how many times they were viewed by your followers (yeah, you’re going to use this for Twitter), browse by the file formats Cloud supports (images, bookmarks, text, archives, audio, video) and manually add a bookmark or upload a file. Come on guys, thousands of people were suddenly requesting files and urls) you can access your online account. Once you’ve signed up for an account (and here we mention the small hiccups the Linebreak servers had after the first minutes of the official launch. Obviously, Cloud app comes with a web interface to back up its desktop software, and it’s a pretty well designed web application. Whether it’s for better or worse, Cloud’s got some nifty features that its competitors don’t have. The main point lies in the realization, in how Cloud app is indeed different from all the other apps. Simple as that, this is what the app ultimately does and what, actually, many other applications do. And it’s way better than before.Ĭloud is an application for sharing stuff on the internet. To stand out from the crowd of file sharing apps. Hell no, it needed more work, more refinements, more features, new servers - whatever it takes to be the champion. It was easy to use, fast, useful, customizable, definitely Mac-like. Last, Linebreak opened even more spots for the beta, and we reviewed an early version of Cloud. Again, we bookmarked a Twitter search for the terms “Cloud Mac”. Cloud was then released as ultra-closed beta, and a few designers had the chance to put their hands on it and tease us on Twitter about how awesome it was. Nice, we all started following the Twitter account. I think it’s impossible to review Cloud app by Linebreak without mentioning the fact that these guys managed to build a tremendous hype around their first mainstream application: back when Cloud was nothing but an icon, I remember everyone was talking about this new app which had a great looking icon and was every Mac user’s wet dream. There are at least 20 similar file sharing apps that I know, and while some of them are really good pieces of software, most of them are crap, period. Apply this statement to file sharing (a way too crowded market on Mac OS X) and you’ll see thousands of people eagerly talking about Droplr, Tinygrab, whatever. We’re always looking forward to that new app which should revolutionize the way we work.
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