Has Anyone Tried The New Brinkster File Manager?
Brinkster, the web hosting company, released a new file manager to manage one’s webspace. The product is an Adobe Flex app and their Channel Blue blog shows that it was released over a month ago.
The file manager has the thumbnail, detail and image views; can be used to perform all common operations like create, move, cut, copy, paste, delete on multiple files; to manage permissions of a file or folder; and to upload multiple files of different formats simultaneously. The file manager also comes with a file editor for on-the-fly editing.
While I have come across examples of file managers that do nothing much like this one, the Brinkster File Manager sounds like an interesting RIA with greater purpose. Has anybody tried it? Much better, does anybody know of a Flex Windows Explorer or some such? I would love to get my hands on such an app.
You can check out the File Manager tour on the website, though I strongly feel that the tour itself didn’t need to be in Flex. Either the tour should have more than a few screenshots, or it can be replaced with screenshots directly.
About Brinkster From Their Website
Brinkster is a hosting company with customers in over 175 countries around the world. It operates at the intersection of people, data and the Internet. Brinkster offers the highest quality and best supported domain name, shared and dedicated server web hosting, email and data storage services available.
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Check out the open source FlexSpaces (and FlexSpaces+AIR) clients for Alfresco ECM (and Adobe LiveCycle Content Services ES). These have file manager like features including icon, thumbnail, details, and coverflow views. The air version supports desktop drag/drop/clipboard and has a local files browser pane.
Blog: http://www.integratedsemantics.org
http://www.integratedsemantics.com
http://forge.alfresco.com/projects/flexspaces/
http://forums.alfresco.com/en/viewtopic.php?f=32&t=14382
http://code.google.com/p/flexspaces/
Steve
You can try out the filemanager yourself with a free developer account. The link can be found at the bottom of http://www.brinkster.com. I love the new file manager. But I do work for Brinkster. Any feedback would be appreciated.
I will check it out and get back to you, Nat. Thanks.
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Here is a different approach - Flashcommander is a classical, Norton Commander - like file manager. It has list and thumbnail views.
Built in Adobe Flex and Php, multi-user, fine grained permission system, text and image editor, video and mp3 player.
It can be customized in many ways: style, language, add custom modules.
Single panel version exists for Adobe Air, featuring drag’n'drop file upload.
You can try it out online without registration:
http://flashcommander.org/fc
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