How I use put.io to enjoy streaming video on my iPhone
If you have a video file available in the cloud, let's say via a torrent or hosted on Rapidshare, and you would like to access it from your iPhone at a time and place which suits you, how would you do it?
For me, the answer is using the recently launched cloud download and streaming service put.io (availabe in private beta). With put.io, you can add the link(s) to the torrent and rapidshare file(s), and after that the service is downloading the file(s) to your 50 GB huge cloud harddisk. From there, you can either download it on your computer, stream it directly or press the convert button - 5 minutes later, a video is availabe for on demand streaming from your iPhone. I have been using put.io pretty often during the past weeks, mainly to access documentaries, and have been impressed by the speed and how well everything works. Streaming videos directly via put.io's iPhone site seems so much easier than going through the hassle of syncing it via iTunes - at least as long as you have WiFi (or a good coverage and an unlimited data plan) around. put.io is based in Turkey and one of the most awesome services I have tried in the past month. Let's see how long it will be around, considering the obvious risk/chance of becoming a hub for pirated content.
