Dropbox - Online Storage

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07-10-2008, 11:24 AM
Johno

Dropbox - Online Storage

Hey,

Ran into this whilst listening to the Boagworld Podcast.

Anyway, Dropbox is a very easy to use piece of software which gives you 2GB of free online storage space, for whatever you want! (Of course, there will be somethings they wont want on their servers!)

Its simplistic to use, it creates a folder on your computer and you simply drag the files you want to put online into the folder, and your done! Its that easy.

I'm amazed at the ease of use, the simplistic web-interface (for management of files whilst out and about and also so you can access private files) and also the fact that its all free!

You can upgrade to a 50GB plan which is $9.99 a month, or $99 for the whole year. All in all, a great system which is very easy to use.

Best of all, its available on all platforms. I'm currently using it on my Mac, and I will be installing it on my Windows machine soon :)

www.GetDropbox.com

EDIT: Just noticed, you can link your machines together so if I upload something from my mac it will appear in the Dropbox folder on the Windows machine. (You can link multiple machines to the same Dropbox)
07-10-2008, 11:28 AM
bigdavecox90

The 2GB one is free though yeah?
07-10-2008, 11:29 AM
Johno

Yeah, the 2GB plan is free :)
07-10-2008, 11:32 AM
bigdavecox90

Quote:

Originally Posted by Johno!

Yeah, the 2GB plan is free :)

Quite cool, but dunno what I would use it store, cos usually would just leave stuff on my PC....
07-10-2008, 11:34 AM
Johno

Its good if, like me, you have multiple machines and want to transfer files and have like a small centralised location for some of them :)

I think I will also be using it for school files so I can access them anywhere :)
07-10-2008, 11:36 AM
bigdavecox90

Quote:

Originally Posted by Johno!

Its good if, like me, you have multiple machines and want to transfer files and have like a small centralised location for some of them :)

I think I will also be using it for school files so I can access them anywhere :)

That's quite a good idea.

Still not sure what I would use mine for though lol.

Might just set one up for the sake of it, it's free anyway. :)
07-10-2008, 11:38 AM
Stephen!

2gb? pfft. just use microsoft's skydrive
07-10-2008, 11:48 AM
Johno

Never used SkyDrive and to be honest, 2GB is enough for me at the moment :)

Another thing I just found out about is it has like Revisions so if you overwrite a file, but then want the old version back, you can restore the old version or open the file :)
07-10-2008, 11:57 AM
bigdavecox90

Quote:

Originally Posted by Stephen

2gb? pfft. just use microsoft's skydrive

What's SkyDrive, never heard of that either?
07-10-2008, 12:00 PM
mat64

That's pretty good, nice share :)
07-10-2008, 04:15 PM
The Professor

There was one on BBC's click that had 50GB of free storage, I'll get back to you when I remember the name of it :P

EDIT: http://www.adrive.com/
07-10-2008, 04:16 PM
Jordy

Quote:

Originally Posted by bigdavecox90

What's SkyDrive, never heard of that either?

SkyDrive offers 5GB for free and is a service offered by Microsoft Live (Links with your MSN). However it's web-based and doesn't support all file formats.
07-10-2008, 04:51 PM
newWORLDorder

Been using this for months, love it!
07-10-2008, 06:04 PM
iJoe

I saw this on your blog :) Looks really good and i'm gonna get it. +rep for posting
07-10-2008, 06:43 PM
sgraham

How about, 1 terabyte (yes, that's just over 1000 GBs) of free online storage?

http://chris.pirillo.com/2008/09/06/...storage-space/

Get it while you can.
07-10-2008, 06:55 PM
Coldplay

Doubt the above.

Nice share @ OP.
08-10-2008, 04:28 PM
sgraham

Why not try it and find out?

I have, and Dropbox? Pfft...

www.oosah.com/
08-10-2008, 04:36 PM
alv4

:o Thanks
really is interesting ^^