Not all the applications are free, however. Just recently released is a Torrent manager that does something similar to the web UI on other BitTorrent clients, but without having to deal with port forwarding. Screenshare takes screen shots every so often and uploads them to a special URL you can watch remotely. Money and Fitness are for tracking their respective activities. Some additional free apps include a Backup system to backup certain folders to either a local disk or a remote computer running Tonido. Searching is also available, and Web Sharing which makes content on your system availble on the web via a URL you can later disable. These include a Jukebox feature where you can stream audio to your webrowser or mobile phone and create playlists. Tonido has really gotten into the whole “app” concept so there are a number of free apps that come loaded by default, with more available to install. I’ll go into that further in a bit, but let’s look at the rest of the features. This core pack takes whatever hard drives are installed on the system, and makes them available to access via a custom url from the domain. Tonido’s software is free for the base package. Tonido took this path a little sooner than Pogoplug, and it’s evident in their software’s maturity. It’s actually a little excessive at points (what consumer needs iSCSI initiator and target capabilities?) but it’s there for you if you do. Just take a look at any of the recent NASes from Synology, QNAP, or NETGEAR, and you’ll spend ten minutes going over the feature list. Consumers interested in NAS products want the NAS to do everything and then some. What I believe both companies have realized is that the Marvell plug computer form factor is underpowered for the demands of NAS duty. The Tonido Plug is probably the Pogoplug’s biggest competitor, although Tonido has taken a slightly different direction.
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