I’ve always wanted an application like this, that allow me to access files that I usually have stored in my personal laptop at home, but without the need to carry a USB drive with files I always want to have with me and without the need to manually updating to the latest version.
But last week, via a Tweet Post from Ed Dale I discovered this amazing service, that allows you to use it for free up to 2GB of space, which for now, is good enough for me. They offer up to 100GB of space for a monthly fee of almost $20 bucks.
What DropBox does is that you open an account with them and at the same time, you install a piece of software on your PC at home and assign a folder you want Dropbox to keep synchronized. So every file you put into that folder, would be automatically synchronized and updated with a replica of such folder in DropBox’s server. So if one day, for any reason, don’t have your computer with you, but want to access a file in it, you just simply access DropBox from any other computer with Internet access, and all the changes you do there, would be automatically updated in your PC at home.
But that is not all, you can also install DropBox into other computers and it will do the same, any change you do to a file in any other computer, would be automatically reflected in your DropBox account, your computer at home and into as many other computers you have DropBox installed.
Currently I’ve been using DropBox via a WordPress plugin that allows me to synchronize the images and files in my blog with my DropBox account and my personal laptop, so no need to worry about losing my blog’s images again in case something happens to my blog again.
But I’ll keep using this service for free for now, but who knows, I might end-up moving all my hard drive to “The Cloud” and forget about using a Hard Drive to store all my stuff. DropBox is the best representation of the concept of “Cloud Computing” and a practical use into our lives.
Below is a video that shows the concept behind “DropBox“
http://scast.s3.amazonaws.com/cc/dropbox_intro.flv
Héctor Sánchez is a blogger from Ocotlán, Jalisco and he is currently residing in Guadalajara. Héctor is a Public Accountant from Universdidad Panamericana with a Posgrade in Corporate Finance from the same university, and he is currently working as financial analyst for Hewlett Packard. Even though he works in Finance for a living, in his spare time, he is a geek and he likes to build blogs, websites and studies everything related with Internet Marketing and several ways of building businesses online. He is also an active member of Toastmasters, where is the President in turn of his local club, Toastmasters Atlas Chapalita Club.
NICE !! I like it !