We test drive the Rackspace Cloud Iphone App
23 Mar
Rackspace Cloud IPhone Application Review
The Rackspace Cloud Iphone Application is Free of charge and is available from the App store.The Application allows you to connect to your account to manage your Cloud Servers and Cloud Files. We will be testing the Cloud Files part of the app in this blog post. You will need a Rackspace Cloud Account BEFORE using this App.
You will need to get your username and API key from your Rackspace Cloud Account, this is available in ‘Your Account -> API Access’. When you load up the app you will be asked to input these details. (The API is very long unfortunately, happy typing). Once you’ve done that it will authenticate your account…
Rackspace Cloud App Authenticating
Once you’ve logged in it will show you your Cloud Servers, if you have any, but we will continue to Cloud Files using the button in the bottom right. You will then see all your containers, for this example we will create a new container called ‘test’.
Rackspace Cloud App Containers
If we go into the container at the moment it will obviously have no files. With the Rackspace Cloud App you are able to upload images from your gallery or straight from your camera.
Rackspace Cloud App Upload
We will upload an image that we took earlier..
Rackspace Cloud App Uploading
Usually it will complete quickly depending on if you are connected to Wifi or not. We were connected to Wifi at this time so it uploaded within 10 seconds, although if you are only on 3G it will take longer. Once it has uploaded you can view it straight from the App.
Rackspace Cloud App Uploaded File
Our Review
The Rackspace Cloud App is a great addition to Rackspace’s current line up, with a lot of the features that the online control panel has. We would like to see a few more statistics in there (usage etc) and perhaps billing but you can’t complain, it’s free. Well worth the download.
Remember to check out our review of Rackspace Cloud Files!
Rackspace Cloud App Uploading
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