Tonido for Sharing Stuff

I learned about Tonido from Scribbles and Snaps’ blog entry non two open source tools for photographers. It was stated there that Tonido is a tool which you could use to share photos with other people from your desktop without having to upload them to a different service. Although it is possible to share them online too.

So what’s with Tonido?

It’s one heck of an all-around server but a lot of the things you want to share, you don’t have to upload via FTP clients and stuff like that. First you just install Tonido on your computer. Then run the script for Tonido. Once you run the script, your web browser will be launched and you will be asked to enter your preferred Tonido ID and you could check if it’s available. Once you set that, you could start playing around with the settings of Tonido. You could start adding files for sharing, as well as start blogging.

What does Tonido have?

• File sharing app
• Photo sharing app
• Blogging app
• Music playing/Jukebox app
• etc.

I think that for those who feel constrained with Dropbox’s file sharing/syncing options, maybe Tonido is the other option you have. I don’t mind sharing music and videos in Dropbox but there are times when I’d rather just let my friends view my files in a gallery form with no fuss whatsoever. In any case, you could also create user groups in Tonido. There is a Tonido Admin for that. You could create new users and user groups. These will be handy when you are sharing a lot of files to different groups of people.

So yeah, this looks like an interesting application because it lets you do all these things and more.