Automate your life (I love Technology) 
Wednesday March 26, 2008 by Hal
This will be an occasional topic as I try to share how adapted certain technologies to automate (and simplify) my life.
For years I sought technological answers to remembering things, and keeping important information safe, and especially not writing something down twice - I hate that.
Today I want to tout GSpace - one of the coolest ‘toys’ I found lately.
I have a GMail account - so do millions of people - which I only used for GTalk (IM) and as an alternative email address.
But at the bottom of my inbox it always said “You are using 5MB of your 6559MB available”.
Now don’t misunderstand - I have a wonderful account at Joyent where I have lots of storage. Buy why not take advantage of Google’s generosity?
I realize there are security issues with Google - so I don’t mean I’m going to store my important things but backup some photos and videos I shot with my digital camera.
So today I discover GSpace, a Firefox (or ick IE) extension that gives you a file explorer window in your browser that allows you to easily copy files to your GMail account.
It literally took about 10 seconds to download and install the ‘widget’ - and I am copying files as I type.
So take advantage of that free storage space - GSpace makes it easy!