Idiot Box

I just started using this new pro­gram called Drop­box. It’s the sim­plest way I’ve found to keep your files syn­chro­nized between mul­ti­ple com­put­ers, and it works on Win­dows, Mac, and Linux.

On each com­puter that you install it, a “Drop­box” folder is cre­ated. Just copy the files you want kept into that folder, and they will be uploaded to Dropbox’s online repos­i­tory. (There’s a limit of 5 GB of stor­age.) The files can be accessed online or by any other com­puter (after log­ging in). There are also spe­cial­ized “Photo” and “Pub­lic” fold­ers, which you can share the URLs for with oth­ers. The pho­tos can be viewed as an online gallery, and pub­lic files can be down­loaded by others.

The files are all encrypted and the con­nec­tion to the repos­i­tory is encrypted while upload­ing. Drop­box also keeps revi­sion infor­ma­tion, so you can revert to older ver­sions of files after they’ve been changed, too. And, it’s a com­pletely free service!

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