To help protect your organization's data against unauthorized access, you have options for setting login restrictions.

These two new options in the security section of the Account Management will allows you to you can define IP address ranges to ban or allow user(s) from accessing digitalbucket.net.

Trusted IP Address Ranges

Account administrators can set IP address ranges from which all the account users can log in without receiving a login error messages. If IP address restrictions are defined, any login from an unregistered IP address is denied, and any login from a valid IP address is allowed.

Device Identity Confirmation

If Device Identity Confirmation option is selected, digitalbucket.net checks whether the user is logging in from an IP address they have not been used before. If the user's login is from a browser that includes a digitalbucket.net cookie, the login is allowed. The browser will have the digitalbucket.net cookie if the user has previously used that browser to log in to digitalbucket.net.

For access via the user interface, the user is prompted to activate his or her account. An activation email will be sent to the address specified on the user's account email address. The email instructs the user to click on the Activate link in their browser to activate their computer for logging in to digitalbucket.net.

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You can now embed your folders anywhere on the web – in blogs, wikis and websites. This is a flexible and easy way to display your folder content right in the browser.

To take this feature for a spin, just right click on a folder that you’d like to embed and select “Get Download Widget...” option from the popup menu. In the dialog, you can select the width and height of your widget. Copy the script and paste it in your website or blog and you’re good to go! Only Account Administrator can generate the embed scripts.

Have you ever wanted to quickly dive into your Digitalbucket.net account from your iPad or iPhone and tweak a document using an editor such as iWork Pages? It’s easy – all you need is a Digitalbucket.net Business account and the latest version of the iWork apps. The iWork apps are some of the best apps for iPad or iPhone, and each show just how powerful a touchscreen device can be for creating and editing documents, spreadsheets, and presentations.

You can import any document from your Digitalbucket.net account by using the + button at the top left of an iWork app, and clicking WebDAV. Simply enter http://dav.digitalbucket.net into the server address, and then enter your Digitalbucket.net username and password:

Now, the app will connect to your digitalbucket.net account. Seconds later, you’ll see all of your folders listed. Browse to the file you want to edit, and then tap it to download the file to your device.

Here’s the format that each iWork app supports, from the Apple iWork for iPad support site:

iWork App    Importable File Types
Keynote    .key    .ppt    .pptx    .pps    .ppsx    ---    ---    ---
Pages    .pages    .doc    .docx    .dotx    .txt    ---    ---    ---
Numbers    .numbers    .xls    .xlsx    .xlt    .xltx    .xlsm    .xla    .csv

Most files open great once they are imported, though you may see warnings about any parts of the documents that aren’t supported. You may have to tweak documents a bit to work best across platforms, but for the most part it’s seamless working with documents from any common Office app.
When you’re done editing simply click on the tools button at the top right of the screen and select Share and Print. You’ll see Copy to WebDAV option. Select where you want to save the file back to your Digitalbucket.net, and click on Done. Your iWork app will then convert your document to the correct format and upload it to the server.

Once it’s uploaded, though, it is instantly accessible from anywhere using a range of supported interfaces such as a web browser, mapped drive, and mobile devices.

And that’s it! Your updated file will be saved back to your Digitalbucket.net account, synced between all of your PCs and available from anywhere.

Do you organize you photos by date or the place they were taken? How about your income tax papers? Everyone has their own way of organizing things. Organizing helps you to find your stuff as quickly as possible, and you can use File Manager to organize your digital files and folders.

Three basic ways to organize your files and folders in the File Manager are sorting, grouping, and changing your view. Understanding the differences between these options will help you customize and combine them to your liking.

Sort your files

Sorting will reorder your files. Generally, files are listed in alphabetical order by file name. But sometimes you need to order your files based on other file properties. For example, if you're viewing a list of different file types, sorting them by “Type” may make more sense than ordering by name.

To sort your files

• 1. Click on a folder you want to sort.
• 2. Right-click an empty space, point to Sort by, and then click a property (such as Type).

Group Your Files

In addition to sorting, you can also group files by property. If you choose to ‘Group By’ option, there will be a distinct separation between your files and they will be sorted under sub-headings according to the criteria you set. So, if you have a folder full of different type of files, you might want to group them by date to separate them by the date they were created.

To group your files by property

• 1. Click on a folder you want to Group files.
• 2. Right-click an empty space, point to Group by, and then click a property (such as Type).

If you want to remove the grouping separation in a folder, just right-click an empty space, point to Group by, and then click (None).

Change the appearance of your files (View)

In addition to changing how your files are organized, you can also change how they appear.

To change your view

• 1. Click on a folder.
• 2. On the toolbar, click the arrow next to the Views button, and then select the desired view.

If you mix view options with different arrange, sort, or group options, you can create some interesting and helpful combinations.

Yammer is revolutionizing internal corporate communications by bringing together all of company’s employees inside a private and secure enterprise social network. Although Yammer is as easy to use as consumer products like Facebook or Twitter, its enterprise-grade software is built from the ground up to drive business objectives.

Yammer is free for your whole company, enabling users to communicate, collaborate, and share more easily and efficiently than ever before. It reduces the need for meetings, increases communication across silos, surfaces pockets of expertise and connects remote workers.

Sign up and start using Yammer. All you need is a company email address.

You can now share your digitalbucket.net files/folders easily with your Yammer network.

Right click on a file or folder and select Send to and then Yammer.

Once you click on the Yammer, a popup will appear where you can enter in an optional message. Click on the Ok button to continue.

A Yammer popup will appear to confirm your link. Click the Update button to post your digitalbucket.net share link to your Yammer network.

At digitalbucket.net our goal is to provide our customers with a hassle free, easy to use online storage and collaboration services. That’s why we have partnered with GoodSync to bring Automatic Backups and Sync capabilities to our services.

We already have many “Windows” customers utilizing GoodSync with digitalbucket.net. It works flawlessly. The new version of GoodSync software supports Mac users. We are excited about this new addition and we want to pass the good news to our Mac users.

If you don’t know about GoodSync, it is easy and reliable file backup and synchronization software. It automatically analyzes, synchronizes, and backs up your emails, precious family photos, music, contacts, financial documents, and other important files into your digitalbucket.net account.

Let us know if you decide to purchase GoodSync after your trial period. We can provide you a discount. For more information, please visit http://www.goodsync.com/mac.

Your data is now a drop in the digitalbucket.

Digitalbucket is all about the users and providing them a great user experience. Our vision is to provide the most powerful, flexible, easy to use platform for individuals and businesses to share, access, and manage all digital content on the cloud. We are continuously enhancing features and brainstorming ideas to push our product to the next level. In our efforts to assist users in finding files faster, we are pleased to announce the expansion of our tagging feature.

Finding related files can be very difficult, especially if you have many of them and they are located in different folders. You can make it easier to find your files by applying Tags to your files. Additionaly, you can use the Tag tab in the File Manager to filter the files.

What we have done recently with tagging goes beyond filtering. We have added the collaborative dimension to the Tagging. What that means is that administrator of the account and the sub-accounts can collaboratively add or remove tags and both access the same Tagging information.

To add tags to pictures

• 1. Log into your account and in the File Manager locate and right click (Ctrl-click for Mac users) the file that you want to tag and select Tag this File.
• 2. In the Tags dialog type a tag name, and then click Ok.
  In the details pane at the bottom of the window, next to Tags, the tag name will appear.

  

  The details pane displaying tags for the selected picture

Tips

• You might want to add tags to your files to identify projects, the location, or the event associated with your file.
• You can add multiple tags to a file.
• After adding a tag to a file, the tag will be displayed next to Folders tab in the File Manager. Click on a Tag and the files will be displayed on the right pane.
• Sub-Accounts can access the same Tags if only the Tagged files are shared with that user.

There is no question that email is a tool that is already integrated into our personal or work life. Even though email makes communicating easier; it has many limitations when it comes to working with files. It's simply not designed for file collaboration.

Digitalbucket has the perfect solution for just these situations; Our Upload by Email Feature. The idea is simple. Email files as attachments to digitalbucket.net and have your files uploaded to your account. Already a great success with existing user, we are pleased to announce our existing upload by email feature got a neat makeover.

This new feature lets you choose your target folder of your files. It skips the cumbersome download and then upload step. It allows users to easily upload your files, organize and share content with others. When uploaded, you can also take advantage of many other tools available for your files like file content search.

Additionally, the sub-accounts can also send emails to their accounts and they will automatically upload to a folder chosen by the sub-account.

The setup of this feature is easy. Log into your account and from the Account Manager/Settings enable this feature; choose your Target Folder and Save Changes.

One cool idea is that you can Cc this email address in your email and all the files in the email thread will automatically uploaded to digitalbucket.net.

The email address is upload@digitalbucket.net. This feature only works with registered digitalbucket.net users.

Take this new feature a spin and make getting content into the right folder on digitalbucket.net easier than ever before. We’d love to hear your feedback

Here are some useful tips on how to find and organize your files using tools available in the File Manager.

There are so many ways to find and organize your files that you might not know where to start. Most of the time, to find a file, you will probably start by using the search tools that are available within File Manager outlined in the picture below.

How do I search for files?

The method you use depends upon what you're searching for, and where you're searching for it. The following table describes the different search methods and when they're useful:

Use the Search box

The Search box is located at the upper right corner of File Manager. It searches the entire account based on the text that you type. The Search box finds files based on the file name or text within the file.

For example, if you created a report called "Las Vegas Sales Trip", and forgot the location of the file, type Las into the Search box and click on the glass magnifier icon next to the Search box, a new window will popup and your report would immediately be displayed.

The following table lists the common scenarios that you can use in the Search box:

Advanced searches in the Search box

Digitalbucket.net search for whatever you enter in the Search box by looking in the file name, file type, and file contents of all the files in your account. Type "Project," for example, and it will find files named "project description.doc," and files that contain keyword “Project”. This broad approach to search usually helps you find your file quickly.

If you want to search more selectively, however, you can filter your search in the Search box by specifying Filters.

Using Boolean filters is another way to perform a more precise search. Boolean filters let you combine search words using simple logic, as you can see in the following table.

Displaying the Search results

By clicking on the magnifier glass next to the search box, the search results would immediately displayed on a new popup window as shown in the picture below.

Use file list headings to organize files

By clicking the headings that appear above the file list in a folder, you can change how files are displayed. Viewing files in this way can help you organize files that share something in common.

When you want to sort the contents of a folder by file properties (like file name, date, and size), files with those properties can be displayed ascending or descending. For example, if you want to see files sorted alphabetically, sort by that file’s name.

• 1. Open the folder that contains the files you want to sort.
• 2. Click the arrow to the right of the heading that you want to sort by.
• 3. Click the Sort Ascending or Sort Descending.

A group displays a sequential list of all of the grouped files. When you group your files by Type, for example, you'll see several groups, each one displaying all the files grouped by a particular Type as shown in the picture below.

• 1. Open the folder that contains the files you want to group.
• 2. Click the arrow to the right of the heading that you want to group by.
• 3. Click Group by this Field.

Tagging

Files and Folders can be "tagged" to make them easier and faster to find. Enter a tag name in the Tags Window and save. Tagged items can be viewed by clicking on the Tags tab at the lower left of the File Manager.

You can easily Share folder(s) with any number of digitalbucket.net users. Let's call these users Collaborators. These "Collaboration" folders work like a private workspace that is shared between you and your collaborators. This is a great way of inviting people to collaborate on your project folders. Each collaborator will have its own digitalbucket.net account and only can see the files that you have shared with him/her. You can share one or many folders with unlimited collaborators.

Once shared, any changes to your folder's content will be instantly available to your collaborators. The opposite is true as well, collaborators with Full Control permission can make changes to the shared folder and changes will be instantly available to you.

Add Email Notification Service to the Collaboration Folders and you and your collaborators will get email updates any time there is a new change in the folder. You can also monitor your collaborators' activities.

How to make a collaboration Folder

To make an existing folder a Collaboration Folder, right click on the folder and then select "Share this Folder" from the popup menu. Enter the email addresses of the individuals you would like to collaborate with. You may also use the Address Book to select your contacts.

NOTE: The email addresses must be the same as your collaborator's which have been used to register for their digitalbucket.net accounts.

Upon clicking on Ok, an email will be sent to all the users notifying of new shared folder. Shared folders are color coded. This will help to distinguish shared folders quickly.

Sub-account or Collaborator

Sub accounts are defined to give customized privileges to all or parts of your digitalbucket.net main account. Sub accounts don't need to be registered digitalbucket.net users to access those folders you've given them permissions.

Here is a quick comparison chart on how Collaborators are different from Sub-accounts.

It is all depend on your usage scenario to decide to use Collaborators or Sub-accounts.