Drop box, Quick and Dirty Jungle Disk
Drop box is a worthwhile tool for doing some basic file synchronizing between a few computers. I don’t know if I would recommend it for storing your life’s collection of digital photos, but if you had a handful that you wanted to move between your laptop and desktop it would be a good tool. Likewise I wouldn’t keep my MP3 collection on it, but if there were a CD I wanted to listen to at the office drop box lets you move the files fairly seamlessly. Drop box is a good service because it’s goal is to synchronize files across the internet. This means that the idea isn’t to be accessing files from a web disk or a web based location, rather, they are housed on a local computer and then uploaded and downloaded. This is a good way to go for web based storage because no matter who you are, your local computer is faster than the internet.
Also Dropbox has some team features other than synchronization that makes it worth mentioning.
- Drop box allows you to access your files online.
This is a cool feature for college students and other people who find themselves using public or computers that are not their own but still want their stuff. - Drop box keeps a revision history. This is a pretty good thing for most people who find themselves revising documents. Or even worse work with other people who revise documents. Each time a file is synchronized a backup of the original is kept. This way if you accidentally save over your changes or someone else s you can roll back to the previous copy.
- Drop box allows you to share files with other people. This is sort of cool. With Jungle disk you would have to set up a unique bucket and trust people not to snoop through your stuff. With drop box you can say mom gets to see this folder but not others. ( not that I encourage hiding things from your mother)
In conclusion, I have Jungle disk set up and working well so I probably won’t be using dropbox for too much, but it is a good solution if you aren’t ready to comit to a full online storage solution.
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