Kevin Payne Built ASTRO to Unify Content Management Across Multiple Systems
Content management is becoming a fragmented experience as more and more storage solutions appear on the market. It is becoming commonplace for professionals to have data stored locally on their own computers and tablets, on their smartphones, and on cloud-based solutions such as Dropbox and Google Drive. Navigating through each individual file management system can be cumbersome and time-consuming. To deal with this situation, cool person in tech Kevin Payne and his company Metago have built a unifying content management app for Android called ASTRO. ASTRO doesn’t only access one storage system, but connects to both your local network and cloud services to create a single file management system for all of a user’s content. Payne’s app can connect to services such as Google Drive, Dropbox, Box, SkyDrive and even Facebook. It can also access any computer that shares its data with a local network. This means a user could conceivably access all of their files from one user interface on their phone at any given time. Users that don’t know how to share their computer’s content over a local network will want home computer support for help. Read more »
