Do You Use A Thumb Drive? Try DropBox Instead.

Hey everybody!

If you use portable flash drives (thumb drives) to move files from different computers, for example, from your desktop to your laptop or from your home computer to your office computer or if you share files with family and friends…I found a service called Dropbox.

It’s a cloud-based service that will give you 2GB of storage at no cost.

Here’s why I like it…

DropBox has a driver you install that makes it look like a regular file folder on each computer…all the computers you have would have this folder…and they would be all linked and in sync with each other.

The driver is available for Windows, OS X, and even Linux systems.

Check it out here: http://www.stevenmschultz.ws/presents/Dropbox

The DropBox driver makes the files appear locally to each computer.

And again it keeps them constantly in sync.

If you have a team of people who are geographically distributed, it’s as if you’re all sharing the same virtual drive.

DropBox also maintains version histories of files. So if someone accidentally overwrites a file, you can get it back.

DropBox lets you access your files from anywhere in the world through a web browser.

There are some other services like this, but I find that DropBox is a lot easier to use, given it’s installable drivers, automatic syncing, and version histories.

Now I only use my thumb drives for backup or if I have REALLY BIG files.

Again, check it out: http://www.stevenmschultz.ws/presents/Dropbox

-Steven Schultz

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