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Over the weekend I went paintballing for a friends bachelor party and we all wanted to share our pictures with each other. There is a cool service called Dropbox that let us do just that. Dropbox lets you share files between multiple computers very easily. Dropbox installs a small program that handles the syncing and adds a My Dropbox folder to your computer. Any files you put in the My Dropbox folder are synchronized between all the computers you have Dropbox installed on. Dropbox also allows for collaboration of folders and thats how we used it. Those of us who took pictures put their photos into a shared folder then added all the participants as collaborators so we could all have a central place to put our photos. It worked out really well. You also have a public folder so if you want to share a file that is too big for email with a friend just drop it in the public folder then right click on it and there is an option to get a public link to the file. Email the link to the friend and they can download it from your Dropbox. Dropbox gives you 2GB of storage for free, but you can upgrade to 50GB of storage for $9.99 a month or $90 dollars a year. Dropbox also keeps track of revisions so if you are working on a school project and a critical portion is accidentally deleted you can revert back to a previous version and save yourself from a thermo nuclear meltdown. I highly reccomend checking out Dropbox if you user more than one computer and even if you don’t it is a good place to put critical files that you don’t want to lose.
Wow, that seems pretty cool. Is there any lagtime, i.e., does it take a while to get to the other servers? But that’s way cool. Please check back on the comments on your other posts . . .
It is really fast actually. I have it on my laptop at work, my Macbook pro at home, and my two desktops at home. It synchs everything really quickly and I’m pretty sure that for computers on the same LAN it will share via the LAN rather than having each computer download from the Dropbox server. I haven’t confirmed this, but it seems that way based on the speed that it synchs.
P.S. Feedback on the new layout. I like the nature stuff in the backround, the stuff on the side is a little hard to read for some people, but I like it, it’s more in-your-face. Good work.
Thanks man. I’m thinking about changing the background picture to one that I’ve taken I just need to find the right one.
Any time. Are you thinking a landscape type of thing, or what else?
o.0 250 mb extra
seems we will both get some more space
nice find, looks a lot nicer than rapidshare
I’ve always thought rapidshare looked a bit shady. Dropbox has a very clean look and feel.
i tried it out now.. its REALLY easy to use, its very similar to tortoiseSVN (subversion) the idea of the whole copy-paste-seamless thing is awesome
took me a while to realise the photos folder wasnt shared -.-
Yeah I’m not really sure why they give you that photos folder when you install it. I thought it was shared at first as well.
I just found out it actually is shared. It makes really nice web photo galleries. Just drop a folder of images into the Photos subfolder and Dropbox will automatically create a web gallery. To get the link to the gallery go to your Dropbox web interface. You can right click on the Dropbox application in the system tray to get to your web interface quickly.
i was quite confused about the public link option, and sharing with other people
but i kinda worked it out (its not too hard)
nice background btw
You should try Live Mesh (https://www.mesh.com/), it’s still beta, but very stable, comfortable and completely free, at least it is right now, I’m not sure wheather Microsoft is going to charge fees when it’s finished, but I don’t actually think so.
The space you get is 5000 MB, which is also quite decent. Plus, they provide you with a Web Interface if you want to access your files from a computer without the application installed