No one should be surprised... passwords and account leaks now happen constantly, but sometimes they might affect a popular service used by millions of users - like Dropbox. However, before you rush to change your password, you may want to reconsider unless you've been really careless about your passwords and use the same in every online service you use.
If you're a regular reader, I hope you'll know how important backups are. But the truth is, most people only really start to care about backups after experiencing the despair of losing valuable data. Today, I bring you a case that shows that using Dropbox for backups might not be as foolproof as you'd expect.
There are several programs that provide advanced screen capture features, but for the most part, people still do it the old fashion way: pressing the PrtSc key to copy the screen to the clipboard, open a image editing program, paste the image there, crop and resize the image, save it to disk - and most of the time, upload it to some web service so they can share it with friends. Wouldn't it be good to get rid of it all and make it simpler? If you use Dropbox you can.
With the latest version, Dropbox can now automatically upload your screen captures, and if you press CTRL+PrtSc you get a link to the uploaded file in your clipboard. That means you're only a "paste" away from sharing your screen capture with your friends (or the entire web, if you wish.)
This is quite a nice addition to the automatic photos and video import feature (this new version also has an iPhoto import function for Mac users), and to be sure you're not unwillingly uploading screen captures to the cloud, you'll see a window pop up the first time you do a screen capture, asking if you wish to activate this new feature. At any time you can quickly toggle this screen capture upload on or off by visiting the import section in your computer's Dropbox preferences.
If you're an avid torrent that can't go a single day without using it, and think Dropbox is the greatest invention of all times... why not combine the two and simplify your torrent downloads? That's precisely what you can do with this boxopus.
With Boxopus, you no longer have to worry with leaving your computer on all day and night to download the torrents you want; nor deal wit port forwarding and router configuration. You just have to tell it what torrent you want, and it will download it and put it on your dropbox folder automatically.
To make it even easier, several popular torrent sites (like TorrentReactor, Fulldls.com, Vertor.com and Torrentzap.co) have already added a boxopus download button, meaning you can do it all with a simple mouse click. Can't get any easier than that!
Is you're up for a challenge and would like to expand your Dropboxstorage space (by 1GB or even 100GB!) then you better get ready, because a new Dropquest is coming next saturday, May 12th.
The Dropquest is a multi-step scavenger hunt, where you'll be given clues and problems to solve, and where you'll be rewarded in the end. For everyone able to complete this quest, you'll get 1GB extra space on your Dropbox account. But... should you be one of the fastest ones to do it, the prizes are even better
1st place (1) Dropbox employee hoodie, LIMITED EDITION Dropbox Hack Week t-shirt, Dropbox drawing signed by the entire Dropbox team, invitation to help write the next Dropquest, 100 GB for life
2nd place (10) Dropbox employee hoodie, Dropbox t-shirt, 20 GB for life
3rd place (15) Dropbox t-shirt, 5 GB for life
4th place (50) 2 GB for life
5th place (100) 1 GB for life
Sure is a fun way to earn some extra GB of cloud space, as well as prove yourself among other "quest hunters"! :)
If you recall the amazing If this then that, that allows you to "cook" up your recipes for automating things you might want to do but didn't think were possible to do with just a few clicks; and if you're a fan of Dropbox: you'll love this Dropbox Automator.
Sure, you have to grant it access to your Dropbox files (if you're not to sure about that, you can simply create a new dummy Dropbox account just to test it), but other than that... it can work wonders with your files and save you hours of your precious time.
For instance, you can use it to keep watch on a folder, and then do stuff like: resizing and uploading all the photos you place on that folder to Facebook; or convert those files to PDF; or upload it to Google Docs; or lots other options.
It might not be as versatile as IFTT, but ir can really be of value to dropbox fans willing to save time on "boring" tasks.
Dropbox is one of those services that can be a real life saver for lots of people in lots of different cases. If you're not using it you won't know what you're missing - it really is that good, and can be put to good use in a number of different ways, either for personal use or for sharing stuff among friends and/or family.
And now, Android mobile users can use it even better thanks to the new and improved Dropbox App for Android:
Favorites: Want to make sure a file is always on your phone? Star it for quick offline access.
Bulk upload: No need to upload files one at a time. Select multiple photos and videos to be uploaded in the background.
File renaming: Simple as it sounds – files and folders can now be renamed.
Ice Cream Sandwich support: Optimized for the newest and tastiest Android release yet: Ice Cream Sandwich.
Single-tap access to actions: All file and folder actions are available from a single tap.
Lots of others: Improved gallery view, export to (and upload from) local storage, as well as numerous bug fixes and stability improvements
If you don't want to worry about backups, and want to keep files in sync across multiple computers (even with different operating systems) this is the best service you could possible have - and you can use up to 2GB of space for free.
Not enough for you? No problem... by referring friends, you can now get up to 10GB free space.
If you haven't done it yet, start using Dropbox today, and I can assure you won't regret it. :)
Some news about Dropbox. Finally they got to move from the old getdropbox url to the more appealing Dropbox.com
And if you haven't installed the Dropbox App for the iPhone yet, because you still had OS 3.0 (the App needed OS 3.1) now you can do it - the Dropbox App now supports OS 3.0 which means many more people are able to use it.
Remember Dropbox, the amazing online storage that can keep your data in sync across multiple computers and different operating systems (Windows, Linux, and Mac)?
Well. although you've always been able to access your files via web browser (with an iPhone optimized page and all) we now have a native iPhone Dropbox app that offers lots more: you can even stream audio and video files from your dropbox account to your iPhone, and mark your favorite files as - guess what - "Favorites" for offline access.
If you're still now using it: GetDropbox, and get the Dropbox iPhone App from the App Store as well! :)
They just had their live presentation in the Techcrunch 50, a conference that is looking for the best ideas and startups around the web.
Unfortunately for them their presentation didn't go all that well - they had some Wi-Fi troubles that messed his concentration, and things got a little "out-of-control." And when you're competing with other great concepts and ideas, this is a killer. :(
I still can't understand why he failed to mention the revision control, which gives you access to any version of any file you modify in your dropbox! That's probably the feature with the most "wow" factor. It's a shame it went unnoticed.
(They should have played their demo video instead...)
Well, here's the new stuff: Dropbox is now live and available for everyone! No need to hunt down invites from friends! Just go there and sign up for your free account.
Linux support is also up and running!
And if you feel 2Gb is not enough, you can now get up to 50Gb for $10/month or $100/year.
For the first 500 users that went to http://www.getdropbox.com/beta/tc50 were entitled to a free premium account - which were used up in about 1 minute. :)
Don't forget to check the demo video if you haven't done so before:
If you can't wait any longer for the official Google Drive then you should really check out: Dropbox.
It's an online virtual disk drive that keeps your files in sync wherever you may go, and allows easy sharing of files and folders with your colleagues and friends.
It's extremely easy to setup and use, and from what I've seen - I think every other similar services should be worried about it.
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