Beam It All Over The Place, Scotty {www.getdropbox.com}
After just signing up for my drop box – I have to admit – it’s better than packing around a thumb drive, but if you want to use your thumb drive as the drop box – it will do that too.
Basically what happens is you install a small piece of software on each of your pc’s (home, work and/or laptop). Whenever you do some work or create something, you save it to your drop box rather than to my documents/where-ever. All of your pc’s sync up via the installed software. It’s definitely the future of personal digital storage – and so far it’s been flawless.
The first 2 gigs are free and you get referral credits (an extra 1/4 gig if someone refers you & the referrer gets the same added credit up to an additional 3gb).
After you’re using your account you’ll notice a VERY manageable dashboard when you log into the site – displaying a recent history of your actions – even as detailed as which file was updated on which pc. This is great for maintaining the latest version on every pc that is utilizing a file. After all, why bother installing something like this if it isn’t keeping the versions the same(?).
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May 21st, 2009 at 3:13 pm
Been using it for a while to keep my photography in sync with my laptop and my main pc and its such a time saver, my only grip with is is for some reason it keeps a second copy of your data as a cache which doesnt make sense to me.
so my 2gb of photos actually used 4gb of hdd lol.
June 4th, 2009 at 7:26 pm
i was really impressed when i logged into find that it was doing versioning between my pc's. the latest copy is always maintained all the pc's as they sync up to the service.
June 8th, 2009 at 11:48 pm
Its a good site but you know these kind of sites are good when you have fast internet connection. If you have slow internet connection it is good that you use portable hard drive for backups.
But this site is a good find, no doubt