Why Files ExistRead More

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Whenever there is a conversation about the future of computing, the discussion inevitably turns to the notion of a “File.” After all, most tablets and phones don’t show the user anything that resembles a file, only Apps that contain their own content, tucked away inside their own opaque storage structure. This is wrong. Files are […]

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Project Ideas – Send a faxRead More

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Keep ‘em coming has been what you’ve asked for, so here we are again: another inspiration for a service we’d love to see built using Filepicker.io In some ways, this idea is similar to the last Inspirations post on printing cloud photos using Filepicker.io, but in a different domain: Send a fax from Filepicker.io Ideally […]

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Project Ideas – Print PhotosRead More

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We heard a number of people say how much they liked our last Project Ideas post on a Filepicker.io and Pixlr mashup, so we’ve got another idea for you: Print Photos Directly from the Cloud We at Filepicker.io now actually have most of our personal photos uploaded to the cloud, between Flickr, Facebook, Picasa, stuck […]

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Mimetypes versus ExtensionsRead More

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Over the last few days we’ve had some conversations here at Filestack about how content types will be identified in the future, whether we will still all be using extensions on filenames like .txt or whether mimetypes are the way forward. If you want to brush up on mimetypes, the wikipedia article is great. Here’s our […]

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