Dropbox - great online storage app

[jdarling]

Just ran across this thing called DropBox, interesting concept. Integrates with the OS and gives you storage of your files that are then backed up to their servers. You can give out public URL's to those files if you want, and can get to the files from any system with DropBox installed on it.

As developers it seems we are always posting up things to our sites, public share sites, yadda yadda yadda... This seems a nice solution till you have something ready to go and it doesn't clutter up your space . Seems you can also work directly from the DB folder so its like live backups

Download from: https://www.getdropbox.com/referrals/NTE4MDE0Mzk5 - Yes, its a refferal link so I get credit toward more free space If you don't want to give me credit, then just use http://www.getdropbox.com/

- Jeremy

[noeska]

What about ads on the public available urls? Are they anoying or ok'ish. Can you provide an example download?

[jdarling]

No ads, no nothing. Below is a test link:

http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/1801439/Avatar.jpg

[paul_nicholls]

Just ran across this thing called DropBox, interesting concept. Integrates with the OS and gives you storage of your files that are then backed up to their servers. You can give out public URL's to those files if you want, and can get to the files from any system with DropBox installed on it.

As developers it seems we are always posting up things to our sites, public share sites, yadda yadda yadda... This seems a nice solution till you have something ready to go and it doesn't clutter up your space . Seems you can also work directly from the DB folder so its like live backups

Download from: https://www.getdropbox.com/referrals/NTE4MDE0Mzk5 - Yes, its a refferal link so I get credit toward more free space If you don't want to give me credit, then just use http://www.getdropbox.com/

- Jeremy

Thanks for that Jeremy, I have downloaded Dropbox (via your referal link, btw) and will give it a go

cheers,
Paul

[dazappa]

Ah yes, I've had dropbox for quite a while. I don't use it to share files with anyone, but I use it as a backup for all of my completed projects. Very easy to use.

[Stoney]

I've been using DropBox for almost half a year now. It's a really helpful tool since I'm using different PCs/laptops and Mac OS, Linux and Windows. Besides a few bugs it keeps my projects I'm working on up-to-date and I can test my projects on different operating systems and PCs without using a flash drive.

[DarkBow]

I use it on Mac OS X to download the pictures my sister makes while she is on her trip around the world. It's very nice and completely integrated with the system (just another folder).

The only thing I do not like too much is that it automatically synchronizes all files without asking you. That means if you have 1-2GB in the folder, which is usually my case, it can take a lot of time before it's synchronized.