Dropbox is barely two years old and yet it’s quickly become the file-sharing option of choice for many web users. Certainly, once you start using this excellent service, you’ll wonder how you managed to survive without it.
So, what’s so good about Dropbox?
The answer is ‘focus and simplicity’. While other online storage services are known for complexity into their synchronisation options, Dropbox’s proposition is a single folder that’s synchronised across all computers associated with the same Dropbox account.
This means you can simply install the software, then throw some files and folders into the My Dropbox folder to upload them to the Dropbox server. Then, open the My Dropbox folder on a second PC and the files appear as soon as they’ve downloaded. You can also access the content via your web browser.
Any number of devices can be associated with a Dropbox account including most modern Smartphones an 2GB of storage space is included with free accounts. Add in file versioning (where older versions of files are accessible via the web interface) and some basic file-sharing facilities and you’ll find Dropbox is hard to beat
It can be improved by selective synchronisation – letting you choose which files to update – would make Dropbox even more appealing. This feature already exists but currently only in the beta version, which you can grab from the forums
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