Dropbox has proven to be one of this year’s best utilities. In my increasingly hectic life, I’ve found that I need access to certain information whether I’m at home, at a shared computer, or on the road. Thanks to the Android phone, I have access to all of my email and messaging, and with Dropbox I am now able to have important files of mine available for access anywhere I go.
Dropbox is an online service that gives you a small but usable amount of storage space to store your computer files. You can purchase a larger account that holds up to 10GB of files, but even with a basic free account, you can earn additional storage space for referrals, or other tasks such as installing Dropbox on additional computers. Even if they began charting a small amount for their basic account, it would be money well spent.
So, how exactly does Dropbox work? And what can you do to make the most of it? Read on…
The Motorola Droid has been an intresting experiment. Basically just a small handheld computer, an Android phone loads a very small version of Linux, upon which you load all of your apps. Part of it reminds me of the old days of DOS, when you had to watch your memory usage and fit as much as you could onto a floppy disk.