Wuala Stories: How Wuala Saved My Trip

In this article I'd like to show you how Wuala can be used as a secure Backoffice.

I recently went on holidays abroad and had everything printed out (like the Check-In details, the Hotel reservation, the train tickets etc.) On the day before the trip, I sorted the 20 sheets and put them in a little map on my table. I have to mention that all the papers were automatically synchronized with a previous specified sync job with Wuala.

That was the only luck I had the next day, because I was in a hurry and - as you might guess - I left the map at home. On my table. With a note "Important! Do not forget!". 

When I arrived at Check-In at the Airport I realized that I've forgotten something. I had no time to go back and get it, otherwise I would've missed my flight. I suddenly remembered that the files were stored on Wuala, so I launched my iPhone App and searched for the Check-In file. I opened it and showed it to the very kind Lady behind the Check-In desk. Five minutes later I walked towards the Gate with my Boarding Pass ready to go on my Swiss Airlines flight.

After I arrived and got my luggage, I went to the train station's office. I showed them my Train Tickets on my iPhone and they said that I could go on the train with no problem. They we're so kind to print out my actual tickets, so I wouldn't get in trouble while on train.

After the short train ride I was a bit scared that the Hotel may not take my confirmation from an iPhone and that I had to sleep somewhere else. But luckily they took the confirmation (they even asked "Why don't other people do this, it saves a lot of paper and it's environment friendlier..." - I have to agree) and I could go up to my room. I did the same on my trip back and had no problems with the digital copies of my sheets.

Maybe you have your own "Wuala Story" and we'd really like to hear from you. We consider to publish some of your stories if we like them ;-)

2 Clicks for your data protection

Earlier this year, the portal heise.de reported that quite a few social media buttons transmit your data, without you having to click on it. Then, last week, heise.de has published a open-source Plug-In to protect your data from automatically being transmitted. 

Because we really care about data privacy, we made the necessary steps to implement the mentioned Plug-In in the Wuala website and our blog. Now you can be sure that your data is protected, unless you agree to transmission by flipping the switch.

The open-source Plug-In from heise.de is available here

Our new team Member

Hello Wuala!

My name is Melanie and I just started working at Wuala as a Software Engineer.

I completed my MSc in Computer Science at the ETH in 2005.

Now I am looking forward to a great experience working with the Wuala Team.

Have a nice day,
Melanie