Coming early 2012 - SecretSync for iPhone

2011 is on its way out here in the Mountain Time Zone. We want to thank everyone for an exciting year, and we're eagerly looking forward to what 2012 brings!

Here's a hint — it's going to be mobile.

As in, we're coming to the iPhone soon! Here's a couple of screenshots to whet your appetite.

Roll your own secure sync with SecretSync and TntDrive

SecretSync was designed to be simple and work between two locations, usually folders, on your hard drive. In this way, it is able to be used with your choice of synchronization service, whether Dropbox, Ubuntu One, or SugarSync.

Now, there's another alternative. You can be your own cloud provider, by using SecretSync with TntDrive.

TntDrive is a cool utility that maps a Windows drive letter to a bucket in Amazon S3. (Just FYI, S3 is the service Dropbox uses to actually store your data online.) Then, anything you put in the mapped drive is uploaded to S3.

To add strong client-side encryption and synchronization, add SecretSync to the mix. Point your destination (or tunnel folder) folder to the mapped drive, and you have DIY encrypted synchronization.

There are more details about this on our forum at this link:

http://www.completelyprivatefiles.com/forum/topic.php?id=21

SecretSync 1.337 release - for OS X only

We just want to announce a small update to SecretSync, for OS X only, that allows synchronization of Microsoft Office documents while they are open and being edited. Office products generally lock files while in use. This has been a problem for many sync products, Dropbox included, since users generally want their changes to synchronize as soon as they click save, and sync tools need to be careful about synchronizing files that have locks on them, since doing so may cause data corruption. Office products like Word generally put a lock on the file until you are done editing and close it. Because of this, users would have to wait until they exit the program before the file would synchronize.

SecretSync already allows Office documents to synchronize while editing on the Windows platform, but not on OS X. This update fixes this behavior, and allows edits to Office documents to synchronize without having to close the Office application first.

If you are already running SecretSync, simply download this version and run the install. It should update the SecretSync service without changing your settings.

Download version 1.337 for OS X

SecretSync 1.332 Release

We have just released SecretSync version 1.332. This version patches a minor bug in our signal checking mechanism that was occasionally causing a forced close on system shutdown or hibernation.

Additionally, we've worked to add a user requested feature, that of synchronization status. Since our product works alongside Dropbox, and they already have a tray icon that indicates synchronization, we didn't want to add yet another tray animation. Once SecretSync updates files in the Dropbox folder, their icon notifies you that the changes have occurred, so we were already covered in that area.

However, users gave us feedback and told us that they'd like to know a little more about what's happening, especially when they were synchronizing a large number of files. This release accommodates that request. We still didn't want to create an additional system tray icon, since that seemed redundant. Instead, we updated the Log View on Windows and Linux, and the SecretSync Manager on OS X to show status, and also to automatically refresh the synchronization log.

The screenshots below demonstrate the the status addition on their respective platforms.

Windows:

Mac OS X:

Download SecretSync for your platform below.