I'm surprised there wasn't already a thread about this, so I thought I'd share the awesomeness that is dropbox with the good people at LR that might not have heard of it yet.
Seriously though, the vid on their site explains a great use for it, and with 2GB of free space (expandable to 3GB6GB with sign-up referrals (250MB extra per sign up for both people)), it's a great place to keep files in sync between different computers/people.
There's plenty of creative uses for it too if you like the idea but can't quite think of what to use it for.
bmaverick wrote:XDrive bit the dust early this year and I had not found a replacement. I do like the extra space as well.
Is this thing full of advertisers or will the spam mail you their partner's goods and wares? That's one thing I hate.
Nope, completely ad free.
It's just a little system tray client that runs and keeps all your dropbox folder sync'd.
They are still running due to paid subscribers (like me), I figure skier can take this referral as he probably needs the space more than I do, so PM him if you want to give it a try
It looks really handy so I keep it around just in case; but the only use I've had with it was showing people pictures I have on my dropbox, and as I don't have many pics on there it's not been used very much! I should probably look into uploading my iPhone pics to it more often.
i use drop box to show people videos, sourceTV demo's, files like spreadsheets, and to store other files, like my TF2 config file, and my case-mod log folder
Just thought I'd say, I've been using Dropbox for about 3 Months now, and it's been really handy. Cause I use my laptop and desktop fairly equally, I often need the files on my desktop on my laptop. The sharing is a GODSEND! I've been using it to collab with one of my friends who is making a Battlefield 2 Mod (Check it out here) It's just made it so much easier to share the info we need. For example, he was modelling a WiiMote as one of his weapons, but he doesn't have a Wii (Because they SUCK) but I do. So, I merely took a couple of photos of my WiiMote on my laptop's webcam and dropped 'em into dropbox. Voila! Instant, easy sharing and no waiting for GAY Xfire uploads! I LOVE dropbox.
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sweet thanks! i installed and messing around with it. i wonder if i will be able to get there at work... it's probably blocked
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