At times I have trouble keeping track of what is where in terms of data. A couple of friends recommended Dropbox to me, so I finally checked it out and am amazed at how fast and powerful it is so far. By using the links to Dropbox with a referral code (the ones on this page) in it that gives us both an additional 250MB of storage on top of the free 2GB of storage. So I figured I would try it out today as a simple test of features by doing the following and was amazed.
- I downloaded (very small installers) and installed the client on both my Windows and Mac computers
- On my Windows machine I copied over four PDFs for my trip to AES this weekend (I am sitting on a panel and a technical council)
- They appeared within about 30 seconds on my Mac machine
- On my Mac machine I renamed the files
- The updates appeared in about 15 seconds on the Windows machine
- I did not have to do a forced sync or anything, it just occurred in the background and worked great.
It was so easy I am thinking of using a bigger size that has a subscription fee and using it for more stuff. The interface is very easy, it was a very simple setup, it was done right. I am going to try the sharing next (even though I have my own FTP server I figure this could be faster and easier at times)
I also found that I could share the directory Dropbox on my Mac to the VMWare Fusion instance of Windows, copy the files I needed over, and voila they got synced. So now when I need my copy of Star*Explorer for uploading photos to SmugMug while I travel, it is easily available.
