Get Dropbox: When You Need to Store, Sync, & Share
Dropbox is a great tool for keeping all of your files safe, secure, and in sync online. Dropbox is an incredible easy tool to use. In fact, most people won’t even know they are using Dropbox until they need to take advantage of some of it’s incredibly powerful features.
You can get a 2GB account for free, or if you need more space sign up for a 50GB or 100GB paid account.The best part about Dropbox is that there isn’t any complicated setup or interface to learn. It just works! Once you have installed Dropbox on your computer (PC, Mac, or Linux) you will notice a new folder on your system that is aptly named “Dropbox”. You can link this account to as many different computers as you’d like. So if you have a work and a home computer, there is no need to email yourself documents, use a flash drive, or burn files to a CD. All your files will be in sync and stored securely online.
Once you save a file inside this folder it is immediately uploaded and stored online. Dropbox will automatically keep your files up to date on each computer. So if you make a revision to a file at work, it will update the file on your home computer as well. Could it get any simpler?
Sharing a file is just as easy. You can grant privileges to individual folders within your Dropbox. Or if you’d like, you can save your file in a folder called “Public” within your Dropbox. Then all you have to do is right click and choose “Copy Public Link”. The link to this file will be copied to your clipboard and is ready to be shared with whomever you wish. This is a great alternative to emailing large files. Instead, just email the link to the file.
I could go on about the wonderful features of Dropbox, but instead I will just leave you with this screencast.
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Dropbox is SO helpful! What an excellent tool for file sharing. So simple and fast to use. Love it! It’s so much better than burning CDs and sending large files through e-mail.
I just signed up. Not sure how much I’ll end up using it but it seems to be a cool resource. Thanks for the info.