Posts tagged: dropbox
I can’t tell you how much I love Dropbox. It is probably the single most useful service/piece of software I’ve used in the last two years. I was just reminded of its awesomeness this weekend when I had to restore to a previous version of a file that I had inadvertently mangled. The ability to painlessly revert to the correct version of a file is something that you just can’t fully appreciate until the moment when you really need it. Coders do this all the time with SVN or Git, but those are just FAR too complicated for most normal non-coders. So for this reason alone, I highly recommend Dropbox to everyone I know who has a computer.
Designers, writers, coders, artists, whoever… go get Dropbox and start putting all your crap into it. You’ll love it and it will save you hours of your life.
If you click the link above, you’ll get an extra free 250 MB of space when you sign up.
iDisk gets file-sharing. Finally.
For those of us that are MobileMe subscribers, the iDisk just got a lot more useful. This is such good news. Any file in any sub-folder of your iDisk may be easily shared with anyone else. This share can be for a limited time if you wish and can be password-protected. This feature, although announced initially as part of the .Mac-to-MobileMe transition, never quite made it into the first new version. For me, that was very disappointing. I think this implementation is really nice, and I’m very glad to see that Apple is not just neglecting MobileMe, but seriously moving forward to continually improve it.
On the other hand, the fundamental syncing and file transfer system that is iDisk is still NOWHERE NEAR as dead-simple and useful as Dropbox. I guess I’m just glad to see it move in the right direction. I still maintain that if Apple were smart they would take some of that mountain of cash they have stockpiled and BUY DROPBOX outright, integrate it as the new-and-improved iDisk system, keep a free version available, keep it cross-platform, and instantly be the undisputed leader in this whole file-sharing-syncing category.
