Backup to the cloud seamlessly - Get Dropbox!
It has been a while since my last post and I'm sorry for that. But today I have another tip on how you can improve your productivity.
Dropbox is an amazing little tool which allows you to automatically, seamlessly Backup your files into the cloud. Once you install Dropbox it syncs a folder in your regular file system up to the cloud and the best thing: You don't have to do anything it just does it, no matter if you use Windows, Mac OS X or even Linux. This means no more lost files, your Harddisk corrupts, no problem, just sit at another computer and use the automatically backed up file which you can access via Dropbox's website.
But Dropbox isn't just a Backup solution and I'm sure there are many more ways how Dropbox can be used to do new things (e.g. Communicating out of locked down Iran!?)
- You can link an account to multiple clients this means you can e.g. share files with a study group or internally within a company. Also if you have more than one computer, e.g. a Laptop and a Netbook, you can seamlessly keep but of them up to date.If you edit a file on your Netbook and save it the new revision will automatically also be available on your Laptop.
- Dropbox keeps all the revisions of a file for at least 30 days, this means if you wrongly save a file you can recover the old version etc.
- Pictures can put into a special folder. Dropbox then automatically generates photo galleries out of them which you can share with others.
- If you want to share larger files that can't be sent via email just drop them into your Public folder and you can easily share them.
The free Version gives you 2 GB of storage space which you can extend by recommending the tool to others. 2 GB is more than enough for all your documents etc. I also wanted to Backup my pictures and therefore use the 50 GB subscription which is US$99. In my opinion a good deal.
So, you can create an Account here: https://www.getdropbox.com/ (If you want to give me and yourself a little more (250MB) space you can also use this link)