I have been using Dropbox for a while now and would like to feed back some of the reasons why it is good to have. To remind you, drop can be found HERE (https://www.getdropbox.com/) and it comes as a free (limited) and a paid for service. The Free Service give you 2GIG, though I am thinking that the general public (I am a early Beta tester) might only get 1GIG. You can upgrade to the full package of 50GIG $9.99 per month or $99 per year.
It works by virtue of installing an application across any OS you might have such as Windows, OS/X or Linux and this create a folder for you to save files to. It is important to note that any files you put in there will be uploaded to your account and depending on your speed, might take some time. When you link another computer to this account – this will download any updates it finds – so both computers “Dropbox” will be in sync in that respect.
The uses I found after a while were as follows:
- Updated CV on work computer and placed in Dropbox so was around to grab at home, saved USB Keys.
- Put a few MP3 files on shared folder for me / others to grab as required.
- Put pictures I needed to blog so I could update blog post from work with my own picture.
You can designate a shared folder and invite people in there – handy for sharing larger files, it is a automated process and case of drag, drop, forget (though it eats up my upload bandwidth for a while).
