![]() There are small client apps for Windows, Mac and Linux that let you mount your Dockstar drives and all associated shares you have from others as local desktop disk drives, making drag and drop possible, as well as using them as a possible target for backup applications of other functions.Īnd there is even a free iPhone app (called Pogoplug) that gives you access from your iPhone (other phone apps are in development). And it even lets you stream video content in your browser window (provided the file type is supported, and there is sufficient bandwidth on both ends to stream the content faster than playback speed). ![]() It lets you play music files from the shared folder right there in your web browser. It allows you to generate a web-browser-based slideshow of all images located in the folder. The browser interface gives you access to thumbnails of images, including the ability to scrape and present the first frame of supported video files. And it’s the same on each and every one of them. ![]() I have used it with Firefox, Internet Explorer and Safari. It works on PC’s, Mac’s, and even on Linux systems. The web-based interface for your DockStar is full of simple and powerful capabilities. You even get to choose whether to give them read-only or read-write access. Type in their email address, and they will get an email invitation to view your content. ![]() Choose to share a folder with your best friend. Sound interesting yet? I’m not done – there’s more!ĭockStar also allows you to share any storage device that is attached to it, or any folder located on any storage device attached to it, with anyone, anywhere, any time, all through the same interface, and all with just a simple email address. With DockStar, all that content is not only available on your network, but it is also available to you from any computer with a web browser and internet access anywhere in the world! Let me put it this way – this is the absolute easiest way to take any and all content that you may have on your FreeAgent Go (or any other USB connected mass storage device) and make it available to all the computers on your network. The Theater-class products are easy to understand also – they plug into your Television and you use your FreeAgent Go to provide the content that you want to enjoy.īut this dock – DockStar – is completely different. ![]() The Go Docks are simple to understand – they plug into the USB ports on your computer. Docks for FreeAgent Go drives are nothing new for Seagate – they have the FreeAgent Go Dock, FreeAgent Go Dock+, FreeAgent Theater and the new FreeAgent Theater+. Seagate just introduced the most fascinating new product I have seen in a very long time – FreeAgent DockStar. ![]()
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