It’s all very well to have a new laptop at the wireless cafe. but what do you do if you have files at home on another computer that you want to acccess? Drag them around on a USB drive maybe, or email them to yourself and then download your email with the files onto your other computer? This lacks elegance and true utility. There’s another way to have your files available that is a great way to work. Use online storage services that give you a virtual hard drive for storage. Here’s a great solution for Macintosh. It’s called Dropbox and is an exceedingly easy to have a folder get synchronized to a server and then synchronized with a folder on other computers. Available in OS X, Windows and Linux flavors. If you are working on a document in a wireless cafe, just save it to your Dropbox folder. The contents are automatically synced with the server version. Then when you get home, your Dropbox folder on that machine syncs with the server version and all is grand. Same versions all around. The server storage makes it relatively easy to keep track of your documents that you are working on from various platforms. You can even access the same data via a web browser and download it locally. Great idea. Free for up to 2 gigs of storage. Todd says, check it out.
Apr 17
