Guess what? Omnidrive

I have made another attempt today to sign up to Omnidrive. The register page is still giving an error message. I have had no response from my communications with them. I sure hope that this is fixed before we have the whole swag of Boroondara Learning 2.1 staff wanting to access it. The one other Boroondara person aside from me who has done this Thing (and wasn't previously using Omnidrive) couldn't sign up either, so it can't just be me ;>(

It's a few weeks to go before Thing 32 for Boroondara, so I will keep checking the website. Sigh! I suppose I can explore some of the other sites in this category and use them as options when I post the tasks to the Boroondara Learning 2.1 ning.

Omnidrive again!

Well the Omnidrive server apparently crashed a couple of days ago, according to their blog. Everything is supposedly back up and working but not the "Register users" page! I'm not getting the same error message as yesterday, just nothing happens. Maybe it is the old IE/Firefox problem. Anyway, I left a comment on the blog. Meanwhile, I was cruising through the Web 2.0 winners and noticed that Omnidrive won in their category...

Another go at #32 Omnidrive!

Having been enthused by being told by my friend Tapsister that the signup option was working properly now on Firefox, I decided to have another go at using Omnidrive. Well, it was not to be. I got onto the main page, and then clicked Signup! "Unable to connect". I tried getting in going through a range of different sneaky approaches. "Unable to connect". This time I can't even get to the signup page. Sigh! I think this product would be so good - if I could sign up!

Rereprise of #32

I thought while I was still in Learning 2.1 mode that I would go back to Omnidrive. I did - and with exactly the same result. There is still a problem registering. I sent them a screen dump of my problem when I first encountered it over Xmas and New Year and have simply not heard a word since - brilliant customer service! Other Boroondara staff doing Learning 2.1 have also not been able to access registration. These sites sound wonderful and an answer to one's dreams, but if one can't register....

Reprise on #32

Well, I have had another go at Omnidrive at work using IE and I still get the same error message when trying to sign up. So I think it is something wrong with the Omnidrive site at present. I sent them the details on the weekend, so hopefully I will hear back. The good news is that I successfully signed up for Zoho at work without crashing the PC as it continually does at home on Firefox. The test will be whether I can login ok at home and work on stuff. If I can't, the value of the tool will not exist.

#32 Online file storage with Omnidrive

Omnidrive sounds like it would be the answer to this woman's prayers! How often do I find myself at home wanting a file from work or vice versa? And 1 gb of free memory in a web-based application sounds wonderful. I email backwards and forwards but that doesn't always get through firewalls, and I carry stuff on my "message-sticks". I am attracted by the SnipShot facility for editing images and the ability to use Zoho for editing material. But maybe that's where the warning bells should have started out in my dream. In #18 I never managed to register for Zoho and it hung my Firefox several times until I gave up and used Google for the exercise instead.

So what happened to my Omnidrive dream? I got into the website easily enough and proceeded to sign up. My email id was accepted as available as was my username, but every time I tried to sign up I got an error message and that was that. I seemed to be able to everything else I wanted on the site, just not sign up! I have sent the error message to Omnidrive help so we'll see how we go. BTW I also went back to Zoho and the website came up with a signin for me but said the password that they had on the screen didn't match my id. I tried to do the forgot password scenario and guess what! My Firefox hung and I had to reboot. Is this about ME and my PC, or is it that these applications don't work with Firefox? I can pursue them further at work with Explorer but that will be no use to me at home with Firefox.