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It still amazes me that there are people out there who aren’t using Dropbox. Dropbox has been around since 20071 and has clients for Windows, Mac OS and Linux, as well as mobile clients for iOS, Android, WP7 and Blackberry devices.
The idea behind Dropbox is to have a ‘magic’ folder on your computer and whatever your place inside that folder will be automatically uploaded to the Dropbox service and then automatically downloaded to all of your other devices or computers. A nice feature in addition to this is that Dropbox automatically keeps revisions of your files as you change them, so if you make a mistake, there’s a good chance you can recover an older version from the Dropbox website. Kind of like Apple’s Time Machine.
Since files are kept up-to-date automatically as you save them, you can effectively take this ‘magic’ folder with you everywhere you go, if you own a supported mobile device like an iPhone or iPad. The iPhone and iPad apps are both excellent, allowing you to mark certain files as ‘favourites’ so that they are downloaded and saved locally on the device for when you have no access to WiFi or cellular data.
There are dozens of reasons why you should be using Dropbox and if you aren’t already, I’d urge you to give it a try. 2GB accounts are free (there aren’t even any annoying adverts) and if you use this link, you’ll get an extra 250MB free.
