How nice would it be to have your documents synchronized on all of your machines? Having the ability to work on a document on your home pc, then being able to pull up the same document on your work pc without having to transfer it. Dropbox allows us to do just that. It keeps all your documents synchronized and you can get a 2gb account for free. Here’s how.
Go to the Dropbox website, and download the client. Fortunately it is available for Mac, Windows, and Linux, meaning you can share your files regardless of what platform you’re confined to. After you install the client just enter your username and password and you’re set. Do this on all your machines!
You can also set up shares with friends. Think of how easy it would be to share pictures, movies and music!
i would like to point out that the data is still kept on your local drive, so this int really an online backup solution
It’s still a “backup” because it’s a copy of your data and it is kept “online” on the DropBox servers. For those reasons, I’d say this is an Online Backup solution…
You have file A on your laptop. You sync it to DropBox so they have it. Then you install Dropbox on your work desktop and sync file A down to your desktop. You work on it. Periodically Dropbox syncs the file with their copy. You go home. Your laptop is online and POOF… file A is updated and backed up on the Dropbox servers.
I’d call this Online Backup and synchronization goodness.
I use iphoto between my wife’s imac and my macbook. I usually download the photos on my macbook, work on them, then export them using a USB to free up storage on my laptop. Is there a way to do this with “dropbox” using the finder?
Per my above comment – thanks anyway, I figured it out (for others in the same spot just open iphoto and dropbox at the same time and drag and drop between programs – quite simple).