Seriously, I’m Loving Dropbox…
So, my friend Jessica turned me on about a week ago to a web service called Dropbox. At first, I was like, whatever. But now, I am loving it. So, what is it, you may be asking?
It’s basically a virtual flash drive. You get 2.0GB of storage and you can do with it whatever you want. Then, on any computer, you install the application that maps it to a local drive and BOOM, your files are local and backed up on the cloud. So, say you go to another computer where you can’t install an application. You can access your drive through the web interface.
It’s very cool. I use it to share mp3s with my peoples. I also keep stuff I need to access from different places there. I also back up my Microsoft Money file there, so if my computer dies, I’m covered like Bell TV covers Canada.
So, check it out using this link and give it a whirl. It’s free!
November 10th, 2009 at 7:15 am
You’re not concerned about having sensitive files (like your financial records) floating around on the Internet?
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November 10th, 2009 at 7:19 am
@Kathy Good question! First, you can create directories on your Dropbox and those directories are private. Second, my Money file has a very secure password on it. And thirdly, there aren’t any bank account numbers in it. It’s just how much I spent on groceries for the last year and my house payment, et cetera. Although if you were very concerned, you could create a TrueCrypt volume and upload the TrueCrypt executable and then you’d be lock-tight on security.
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November 21st, 2009 at 11:52 pm
And the other concern is that we still need a non virtual memory stick in case there is no internet connection.
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