Omnidrive is a very web 2.0 file storage company based in Australia. The idea is that storing files on a remote server should be just as easy as storing files on a local drive. Of course in reality it isn’t, so Omnidrive’s desktop clients bridge this gap in an effort to make online storage as seamless as possible.

On Windows it appears in an explorer window. Very similar to how any other explorer window looks. And it is great. You can fiddle with your files just how you want to as if they were on the hard drive of your computer. And on the Mac it is mounted in the Finder so it appears almost exactly like an external drive.

That is, if you can get it to work.

When I tried to install the Mac client I got this window:

I reported this to Omnidrive staff on numerous occassions. But they never got back to me. Anyway the other day I got a new external hard drive and I ran the installation again except this time selecting the external drive as the installation destination. It worked fine and then I was able to drag the program into my Applications folder. A bit of a work around but it now works fine.

I know what you are thinking. What is the point of having your stuff stored or backed up with Omnidrive if you need this bastard-to-install client to get at it? That cyber cafe is hardly going to have it installed is it. No, it is not. And this is where the beauty comes in. There is also a web client. It is basic, but it is useable. This is another perfect example of the ideas I suggested in my web 2.0 post. A desktop client for the best user experience on the computers you use most and a web client for all those other places where you might be caught on a computer without the client. This gives storage perfection.