I have recently tried using the First Direct  Internet banking plus application, which works very well.

However I am lazy and want to have to have to go to the first direct website all the time, to launch the app. Also, I don’t use IE as my default web browser and the direct link on the first direct page is hidden by JavaScript. Which means it’s not possible to use a normal web shortcut.

After some experimentation, I found creating the application shortcut with the below code works well:

"C:Program Files (x86)Internet Exploreriexplore.exe" https://internetbankingplus2.firstdirect.com/ibplus/homePage_10.jsp

(this is a shortcut for a 64-bit system hence the (x86), if on a 32-bit system modify the link accordingly)

With Chrome OS announced and due at some point next year, you have to wonder where the often hinted at Gdrive is.

I have tried using several file sync tools but i’m not especially happy with any of them:

Live Mesh: 5 gigabytes of storage and winmo support is good, but no linux support, and has a habit of caneing my broadband connection

Live Sync: No cloud storage, but seems to handle syncing better than live mesh

Dropbox: Has file versioning, but no p2p syncing and only 2gb on free version

Awesome features that Google could bring to the table:

• Tons of free storage, do what Gmail did for webmail and blow other providers away
• Web storage exposed to OS through a network-share
• Have P2P support, allow certain folders in network share only P2P with no cloud storage (like Live Mesh)
• “Delta-Sync” i.e. only sync changes in the files and not transfer the whole file again
• File versioning,  really great feature, wish Live Mesh had this
• Intelligent Integration with mobile/netbook OS’s like android and eventually Chrome OS, I.E. these generally tend to be highly storage restricted environments so I would definitely wouldn’t want to try and push all my videos to the device, however I would like to view what videos are on my gdrive and possibly stream them to the mobile device. Could also possibly have a “cache mode” on the mobile device where I can allow it to have certain amount of storage (say 100mb) so requested file could be pulled into the cache and then older/less used files deleted as cache is filled up. This would work really well for music as well
• Linux support, no brainer really with Chrome OS coming out
• WHS support, ok this is not going to happen, but let us have multiple Gdrive shares available on one machine at once and i’m sure something could be hacked together