Dropbox is simply genius. Every other online file storage site out there including Windows Live’s dismal attempt, Skydrive,should fire their entire product and development teams and bow down at the mercy of Dropbox genius.
Simply download the app start your account and it’s just there, a folder on your computer just like any other, so you can store your files online seamlessly without having to go to a URL, login to anything or uploading files one-by-one (Skydrive, seriously is that the best you can do?). It’s so seamless that people wouldn’t even realise that they are storing stuff online if you installed the program for them (I’m thinking of my Mom here).
Staying on the theme of simplistic genius, you can link as many of your computers to your account as you like, so whatever is on Dropbox on your work PC is on Dropbox on your home PC.
Great features include:
- Ability to add friends to specific folders so that folder appears in their Dropbox seamlessly, but not the folder with all your naughty pics!
- Versioning for collaboration of documents although I haven’t tried this yet.
- 2 gigs of free storage!
- An online site with all your files in case you aren’t at any of your computers.
- a public link to a pretty funky gallery of your pics in case you want to share them with Mum, who’s only just learnt how to click a link on an email, but it works per folder so once again, hiding your naughties.
If you’ve got two computers, collaborate remotely, are a digital nomad, or share files often, you have to try this program. The sheer simplistic genius is hard to appreciate until you have given it a go.
4 comments:
Thanks for sharing. This looks awesome. Just installed it. I have 3 PC's at the moment and Skydrive is my only answer. No comment. I did just get an invite for a new Windows Live (Beta) product which does the same, called LiveMesh. However, I have yet to figure out how it works. I think I'll go with DropBox.
Sharon, Dropbox is going to blow your mind!
jon, you need to update! where else do i find out about all of the new tech-y things?
i also just checked out icanhascheezburger for the first time since i left...and i guess i'll have to agree, it's pretty funny.
how are you? how are things at rtc?
Kyla, Cheezeburger is the most legendary blog of all time! Although I guess some people might give that title to Boing Boing
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