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Online document-hosting service Docstoc on Thursday is introducing a useful new tool for PCs and Macs that will automatically back up and sync documents from your hard drive to your Docstoc account.

Considering the growing trend of Netbooks with relatively little built-in storage, users with this desktop application installed with be able to offload whatever they created without having worry about running out of room.

By default, the syncing application goes for your documents folder, though you can set it to sync up with other folders on your hard drive or folders within your home network. Documents that are automatically updated get set as private, so others will not be able to see them, but you can set specific folders as public too.

To help manage all these files, the document home screen has also been given an overhaul that the company is calling MyDocs. It offers a little bit more than the documents folder on your computer, with simple thumbnail views, as well as a quick preview mode that lets you open up documents of any size and nearly any file type in about a second.

If you’re a Mac user running Leopard, you’ve been able to do this with the proper quick-look plug-ins, but this is all on the Web.

Docstoc creator and CEO Jason Lawrence Nazar tells me that future versions of the syncing tool will include bidirectional syncing, meaning that changes made to documents in the cloud can be pushed back to your local machine. This should be coming in “weeks.”

In the meantime, a company called Dropbox (review) has been offering something similar. It also requires special desktop software to get the job done.

Related: New Microsoft Office competition from Zoho, Zooos

Docstoc now offers a bird's-eye view of your Web documents, complete with live previews and editing. Using the new utility, you can also have it sync up all the documents from your hard drive.

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File host Docstoc is releasing a solution on Wednesday for sending large attachments to friends, family, and co-workers. Called OneClick, the small application must be installed on your machine to enable right-click contextual menus that let you simply click any file on your hard drive and send it either publicly or securely to others.

Once the file’s been transferred, you’ll get a link to the Docstoc-hosted document inserted into a new e-mail message that your recipient can open and read without needing to install anything.

Like Scribd’s solution, which launched last week, OneClick has been designed to entice business and casual users to start simply uploading their documents instead of e-mailing them for the sake of compatibility and size.

Not everyone has Gmail or Office 2007, which offer popular file compatibility. Nor have all users implemented the small software tweak on older versions of Office that will let you read those .Docx files with ease. Instead, solutions like Scribd and Docstoc are taking office software out of the equation entirely.

It’s also a pretty simple way to get users uploading more of their documents from a local machine. Instead of having to go through Docstoc’s Web uploader (which is simple and easy to use), you can get them uploaded with just two clicks whenever you come across something you’d like to upload.

The small application is PC-only for now, but I’m told a Mac version will be on its way soon. To see a video of the tool in action, click the link below.

Right-click on documents to upload them to Docstoc directly, then pop them conveniently into e-mails.

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Docstoc launches simple e-mail attachment replacement

Today file host Docstoc is releasing a solution for sending large attachments to friends, family, and coworkers. Called OneClick, the small application must be installed on the sender’s machine to enable right click contextual menus that let you simply click any file on your hard drive and send it either publicly or securely to others. Once it’s been transferred you’ll get a link that will drop down right inside your open e-mail message that will take the recipient to the hosted version of the file on Docstoc.

Like Scribd’s solution, which launched last week, OneClick has been designed to entice business and casual users to start simply uploading their documents instead of e-mailing them for the sake of compatibility and size. Not everyone has Gmail or Office 2007 which offer popular file compatibility. Nor have all users implemented the small software tweak on older versions of Office that will let you read those .Docx files with ease. Instead, solutions like Scribd and Docstoc are taking office software out of the equation entirely.

It’s also a pretty simple way to get users uploading more of their documents from a local machine. Instead of having to go through Docstoc’s Web uploader (which is simple and easy to use), you can get them uploaded with just two clicks whenever you come across something you’d like to upload.

The small application is PC only for now. I’m told a Mac version will be on its way soon. To see a video of the tool in action, click the read more link below.

Right click on documents to upload them to Docstoc directly, then pop them conveiniently into e-mails.

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