Monday, December 28, 2009

Your Dropbox are belong to you. Everywhere.

USB flash drives are SO passé. I don't even know where my 1GB drive is and I think its cap is lost. If I may be so bold, you are probably in a similar situation.

With cloud computing becoming more and more prominent, we are seeing increasingly more options for online storage. And for good reason. Online storage is easy, always accessible with internet access, and you can have more capacity depending on the service you use.

A really good service that I can definitely recommend is Dropbox. Here's what's awesome about this. When you create a Dropbox account, you automatically get 2 FREE! GB of storage. If you can refer someone to use it, you get additional storage as well as the person you refer. Basically, you get a folder that is your central storage system, and that is attached to that computer. Whenever you put something in that folder, all the files get synchronized online, and you can access them from anywhere! If you have more than one computer, you will probably want to connect them all. What this means is that as soon as a file gets into your Dropbox folder, it now exists in ALL of your Dropbox folders.

Other features include public links for files, photo galleries, and sharing select folders from within your Dropbox folder with other users. All in all, this is an excellent and simple piece of software that does not slow down your computer.  If you want to decentralize your "online" folders and have more than one, then I suggest Syncplicity, which is a little bit heavier on the resources.