14 DAY TRIAL // Wuala is a free desktop application, available for Windows, Mac and Linux, that will be launched, in Beta version, on August 14. Rumors talk about the utility and security of the application, but no one really knew what it was actually like.
The Swiss team behind the project decided to offer, besides the screenshots that only fed our curiosity, a 4-day trial version that ends on July 21. Users who want to check what it is all about have three more days to do that. For those who don't know much about the project, it is a free online storage service that offers some of the following features: users can upload any files of any size, which are then accessible from any computer, they can share files with their friends or publish material for everyone to have access to it.
People who want to use the application have to deal, at first, with a limited amount of storage - 1 GB, provided by the Wuala team. In case someone wants more room for uploading their content on the Internet, they can trade disk storage for the online one. Although online storage devices are not such a novelty, Wuala brings with it the advantages of P2P. And those are not to be ignored, because we're talking about fast downloads and no file size and traffic limit.
Those who fear leaving their data run freely on the web have nothing to worry about, as the developers of the project say. All files are encrypted on the computer used for uploading the content. The graphic interface does not leave any room for errors, as the folders containing the documents are colored differently, depending on the status of the data - if they are public, the folders will be blue, if they are available only for the user's friends, the folders will be red, and if the information is for its owner only, he will notice the yellow color of the containing folder.
After these three days, the application will return to its closed Alpha state, until the Beta release in mid August. Until then, users can decide if it's worth giving a shot to the Swiss P2P online storage novelty.