Why I love Dropbox!
Several years ago I started using an online storage system called Dropbox. This was before “cloud computing” became a commonly understood phrase. What I liked most was that I could sync files across different computers and not have to worry about emailing files back and forth to myself between work and home. Now I even have Dropbox on my phone!
Just a couple of examples of how I’ve used Dropbox:
Last summer I went on vacation for a week to Utah and met up with some of my friends from college. One of them loves to cook as much as I do and has even published her own cookbook. As we swapped stories of some of the favorite things we had made lately, I was able to download the recipes, save them to my phone, attach them to an email and email them directly. Before our conversation was finished, the recipes were in her inbox!
A few weeks ago my friend Amy needed to play a YouTube video for the cub scouts she was working with. She asked our friend Kim to bring her laptop, but Kim pointed out that they wouldn’t have internet access where they’d be and she would only be home long enough to grab her laptop and go. I was able to download the video and save it to the Dropbox folder that I share with Kim. It took only a few minutes out of my day at work, and the video was on Kim’s computer ready to go before she even got home.
If you aren’t using Dropbox yet, I encourage you to take a look at this short video. If you’re interested you can click the link to sign up for a free account. When you sign up through this link, we both get 250 MB of extra storage.
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Several years ago I started using an online storage system called Dropbox. This was before “cloud computing” became a commonly understood phrase. What I liked most was that I could sync files across different computers and not have to worry about emailing files back and forth to myself between work and home. Now I even have Dropbox on my phone!
Just a couple of examples of how I’ve used Dropbox:
Last summer I went on vacation for a week to Utah and met up with some of my friends from college. One of them loves to cook as much as I do and has even published her own cookbook. As we swapped stories of some of the favorite things we had made lately, I was able to download the recipes, save them to my phone, attach them to an email and email them directly. Before our conversation was finished, the recipes were in her inbox!
A few weeks ago my friend Amy needed to play a YouTube video for the cub scouts she was working with. She asked our friend Kim to bring her laptop, but Kim pointed out that they wouldn’t have internet access where they’d be and she would only be home long enough to grab her laptop and go. I was able to download the video and save it to the Dropbox folder that I share with Kim. It took only a few minutes out of my day at work, and the video was on Kim’s computer ready to go before she even got home.
If you aren’t using Dropbox yet, I encourage you to take a look at this short video. If you’re interested you can click the link to sign up for a free account. When you sign up through this link, we both get 250 MB of extra storage.
If you found this blog helpful, please consider subscribing to my blog.
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