We had a bug that, for some accounts, Dropbox and Basecamp txt files were not converted into Google Docs format. So these txt files were not editable in Google Docs.

We have fixed the problem and now converting of txt wiles to Google Docs format works for ALL accounts.

This also means that our Google Chrome Extension will be allow you to edit any Dropbox and Basecamp txt files directly from a Google Docs interface.

cloudHQ Team.

Our father is not very computer savvy so to explain him the point of cloudHQ we told him the following story…

While cloud computing and keeping files over the web in sync have only been around for a just a couple of years, the concept is not a new one.

Back in the 1930s when there were no computers, a company could have multiple offices located in different parts of a town, or even across cities. Each office is responsible for a certain function in the company, but they also need to share documents between offices.

To do this, they had secretaries copy and re-type documents to be sent via courier to the other offices around town. The courier will be responsible for delivering the updated set of documents to each office, keeping them ‘in sync.’
 
Now, offices are not in different parts of a town, but they are in the cloud; the offices are different cloud services like Google Docs, Dropbox, SugarSync, and Basecamp. The documents that need to be shared between offices are held in different cloud services like Google Docs, Dropbox, and Basecamp, making it an even tougher situation than before. Also documents need to be protected against fires, floods, earthquakes and other natural disasters.

So what’s the 21st century solution?

The old reliable courier is now cloudHQ, keeping your documents and files updated across computers and different cloud services automatically – without your secretaries having to re-type them!

Also because documents are now replicated and reside in multiple cloud services they are 100% protected against malicious or accidental deletions.

Try cloudHQ today and give the courier a rest :) Keep your Google Docs, Dropbox, and Basecamp assets safely backed up and synchronized.

Our father is not very computer savvy so to explain him the point of cloudHQ we told him the following story…

While cloud computing and keeping files over the web in sync have only been around for a just a couple of years, the concept is not a new one.

Back in the 1930s when there were no computers, a company could have multiple offices located in different parts of a town, or even across cities. Each office is responsible for a certain function in the company, but they also need to share documents between offices.

To do this, they had secretaries copy and re-type documents to be sent via courier to the other offices around town. The courier will be responsible for delivering the updated set of documents to each office, keeping them ‘in sync.’
 
Now, offices are not in different parts of a town, but they are in cloud; the offices are different cloud services like Google Docs, Dropbox, and Basecamp. The documents that need to be shared between offices are held in different cloud services like Google Docs, Dropbox, and Basecamp, making it an even tougher situation than before. So what’s the 21st century solution?

The old reliable courier is now cloudHQ, keeping your documents and files updated across computers and different cloud services automatically – without your secretaries having to re-type them!


Try cloudHQ today and give the courier a rest :) Keep your Google Docs, Dropbox, and Basecamp assets safely backed up and synchronized.
 

Google Docs is the most popular web application to create and store documents online today. Since your documents are stored on Google’s cloud servers, your data is mostly protected from the dangers of hard disk failure, sudden power outages or surges and natural disasters that happen in your area. For that reason, most users feel confident about the security of their files.

However, studies show that this is not the case. According to a report from the IT Compliance Group, up to 20% of organizations experience 22 or more cases of sensitive data loss a year. This includes customer, employee and IT security data being lost or stolen. Half of these cases could have been avoided if not for the leading cause of data loss – human error. In 1990, noted organizational theorist and sociologist Charles B. Perrow noted in his book “Normal Accidents: Living with High-Risk Technologies” that operators and the personnel handling data are the blamed for disasters and data loss 60-80% of the time.

Whether it’s deliberate or accidental, human error causes huge problems for small businesses and large enterprises alike because of how easy it is for something wrong to happen. On Google Docs, a team member with access to your files may accidentally delete vital documents without any chance of recovery (meaning even clean up “Trash” folder). This poses a problem of data security that is unpredictable and almost inevitable. Because of this, keeping your Google Docs files backed up is of utmost importance.

By using a service to keep your Google Docs files synchronized (in real-time!) and backed up, you can avoid the headache of lost data. Through www.cloudHQ.net/dropbox, you can keep your Google Docs, Basecamp projects and Dropbox files backed up automatically so that you’ll always have a way to recover your files, whatever the disaster.

cloudHQ is now in beta testing phase, so sign up today at www.cloudHQ.net/dropbox for a free trial.

Why should I keep a backup of my Google Docs documents? They’re stored on Google’s cloud servers so they’re completely safe, right? Even if my computer breaks down due to power outage, disk failure or natural disasters, my documents will still be on the Google servers safe and sound. While these statements may be true in most cases, data loss is not limited to computer failure or disasters.

Research has shown that the leading cause of data loss is not hardware or software failure, not even natural disasters – human error has been found to be more prone to loss of important data than any factor. So while your data may be secure on Google Docs, there is a significant chance that you may lose your most important reports, documents and other assets due to human error. A recent global survey on the causes of data loss by Kroll Ontrack® found that 40% of home, business, government, and channel users of information technology believe that human error is the leading cause of data loss.

Imagine this scenario - as an entrepreneur, you manage a virtual team remotely via Google Docs. All your important documents are stored online so that your virtual team can collaborate and work effectively without having to micromanage them. All is fine until one day; a member of your team accidentally deletes your 52-page report or accounting sheet. It could be because your team member thought it was a different file or just pressed the delete button by mistake – in any case, all the hours spent on your work on Google Docs has gone to waste because of human error.

This is why keeping a backup of your Google Docs files is important. You can export and save your files locally, but why do it manually when you can synchronize and backup your important Google Docs files automatically via cloudHQ? By using cloudHQ, your documents are periodically backed up and stored from Google Docs and Basecamp to your Dropbox storage. Or cloudHQ can even continuously synchronize Google Docs and Basecamp to your Dropbox storage. 

No need to worry about your documents deleted by accident or maliciously – cloudHQ has you covered.

Try cloudHQ today at www.cloudHQ.net/dropbox and keep your files safe.

Synchronize Basecamp, Google Docs and Dropbox with cloudHQ

The benefits of Basecamp to a business can’t be stressed enough. It’s a robust web-based platform for managing projects and collaborating with different group in the organization or freelancers. Small business and large corporations rely on Basecamp, but it isn’t without its flaws.

 For example, many freelancers and virtual teams use Google Docs to create, edit, and share their work online. Some may also use Dropbox as online storage to access their files wherever they are. The problem that arises is when you tie these cloud services together; in order to view and edit documents over Basecamp, you’ll have to save a copy from Google Docs, attach it to Basecamp, download the file and then open it to review the file. To store an online backup, you’ll have to download the file and then put it on your Dropbox folder or SugarSync. You’ll end up with multiple files and risk having different versions that have different edits.

 Asset management doesn’t have to be this cluttered – with cloudHQ, you can manage all your work documents in a single interface and keep files synched between Basecamp, Google Docs, Dropbox and SugarSync. No need to download and attach files – just edit and save files directly on cloudHQ and keep your assets all in one place.

Consolidate the assets that your freelancers, contractors and team members, or even share documents and files with your clients and customers easily. CloudHQ can contiguously backup all your assets on Basecamp, Google Docs and even Dropbox or Sugarsync easily.

Try cloudHQ today for free. Visit http://www.cloudhq.net/dropbox (if you use Dropbox) or http://www.cloudhq.net/sugarsync (if you use Sugarsync).

It’s a cloud computing nightmare scenario; you’re presenting to a high profile client tomorrow and you just finished your report on Google Docs after an all-nighter. After leaving the office, your boss calls and has last minute changes to the contents of your report. You rush to your hotel room to make the changes, only to find out that you can’t access Google Docs through your laptop. If only you had a backup on a USB thumb drive or even better, a Dropbox folder.

Companies and individuals alike now rely on Software as a Service (SaaS) solutions more than ever. This reliance on cloud storage and tools presents the issue of the fragmentation of your work and files. Your documents are only editable on Google Docs while your files on Dropbox are not editable directly. Or when using Basecamp, you still need to have the file locally in order to upload it to Basecamp.

 
The solution to this problem is cloudHQ. By synchronizing yours and your company’s SaaS assets, you can work on your documents stored in Dropbox in a Google Docs interface. Not only do you solve the problem of having one or more SaaS services unavailable, you also streamline your processes and become more productive.

The nightmare scenario above could have been easily solved if you used cloudHQ to synch your Google Docswith Dropbox and edit it locally using the editor of your choice. Be smart, synchronize and make your cloud computing solutions work better with cloudHQ. 

Try cloudHQ for SugarSync or cloudHQ for Dropbox now. Also check out the cloudHQ.net Google Chrome extensions at https://chrome.google.com/webstore/search?q=cloudhq.