www.dropbox.com
Dropbox is essentially a cloud service, but the files are also stored on your own hard drive. When you install dropbox, you should see an icon in your system tray (I'm assuming Windows. If you have a Mac, you'll need someone else to help you). When you double click on that icon, it opens up your dropbox folder, where you can store files and create new folders just like you would on your own computer. Anything you place in there is uploaded to the dropbox cloud, and cannot be lost, even in the event of your computer crashing.
As for using it for gaming, you can, if you know a person's e-mail address, invite them to share a dropbox folder. If they accept your invitation, you will both have access to that folder, and every file in it. So, if I wanted to play a game of CM with you, I would create a folder in dropbox, name it something like Buckykatt Vs MG, put turn 001 in there, and invite you to share it. Once you accept the invite, you would copy turn 001 over to the incoming e-mail folder for whichever game we were playing. You would then copy turn 002 from the outgoing e-mail folder into our dropbox folder, etc.
What CM Helper does is automate all the copy/pasting, in addition to letting you know when it is your turn, and it also provides a chat box for communicating with your opponent without resorting to e-mail or PMs.
Clear as mud?
Edit: Oh, and all you need for gaming is the free version of Dropbox. The paid version gives you more storage space (much more). I use the paid version, just cause I use it to back up all my data.
Dropbox is essentially a cloud service, but the files are also stored on your own hard drive. When you install dropbox, you should see an icon in your system tray (I'm assuming Windows. If you have a Mac, you'll need someone else to help you). When you double click on that icon, it opens up your dropbox folder, where you can store files and create new folders just like you would on your own computer. Anything you place in there is uploaded to the dropbox cloud, and cannot be lost, even in the event of your computer crashing.
As for using it for gaming, you can, if you know a person's e-mail address, invite them to share a dropbox folder. If they accept your invitation, you will both have access to that folder, and every file in it. So, if I wanted to play a game of CM with you, I would create a folder in dropbox, name it something like Buckykatt Vs MG, put turn 001 in there, and invite you to share it. Once you accept the invite, you would copy turn 001 over to the incoming e-mail folder for whichever game we were playing. You would then copy turn 002 from the outgoing e-mail folder into our dropbox folder, etc.
What CM Helper does is automate all the copy/pasting, in addition to letting you know when it is your turn, and it also provides a chat box for communicating with your opponent without resorting to e-mail or PMs.
Clear as mud?
Edit: Oh, and all you need for gaming is the free version of Dropbox. The paid version gives you more storage space (much more). I use the paid version, just cause I use it to back up all my data.
