The dog ate my homework, honest...

So you worked tirelessly, night and day for the last 24 hours week on your assignment. You go to put in your USB key (or floppy if you like retro) so you can print your work, but you can’t find it. After a bout of swearing you come to the conclusion that you’re screwed.
Well if you had read this first, everything would be fine. As a fan of Palm OS PDA’s (I’m on my third), I was introduced to a lovely program called Avvenu. This thing is a life safer, and best of all it’s completely free (well for 10 years at least).
So what does this weirdly spelt program do. Basically it maps your entire computer, every Hard Drive, and Optical Drive. So if your work happens to be on a CD sitting in your drive, you can still get it! Plus it allows you to upload virtually any file, to your computer, and place it in any folder. And last but not least, it does all of this over the HTTP, meaning that even if you have a proxy server you can still use it.
Now we’ve told you hold to do complex things like hiding your bit-torrent traffic, but this is the easiest thing you’ll setup this week.

1. Go here, and click the big green “Download” button.
2. Once it’s done downloading, install the program, and follow the instructions.
   You’ll need to sign up for a new account, as seen here, remember that it’s completely free.If you are in fact behind a proxy server don’t forget to look out for the “Corporate Proxy Firewall” tick box, so you can enter your proxy details.
3. Now that’s done you can shift your browser over too “share.avvenu.com” and login just to test it out. Now from any computer connected to the internet in all the world (ok, maybe not China), and as long as your computer is on, connected to the net, and Avvenu is running, you can access all your files. Here’s a quick tip, change your bios settings so that your computer restarts after a loss of power, so that way it will reboot, if the power is lost, ensuring you can still get your work.As you can see Avvenu uses a secure “HTTPS” connection, to your computer. Plus you can see the Civilization 3 CD in my drive, (Haven’t had time to drop the cash on Civ 4 ^_^). As it goes though a third party server, download speeds aren’t jaw dropping, I got roughly 30Kbps on a 4 Mbit connection, so it’s not Bit-torrent, but it will save your skin. And yes that is TWIT you see down there.
   Now remember I said, I like PDA’s, check this outIt works on all PDA’s with online capabilities, and mobile phone web browsers too, so you can get your work anytime, (given that you have a way to get it off the device).
   So hopefully you’ll never not have access to your work ever again (At least for the next ten years). Now if you’ll excuse me I got an essay to finish. Damn, anyone seen my diskette?