Tag Archive - Dropbox

MPU: Dropbox Awesomeness

10 April 2011 by Jon Bennett, No Comments
MPU: Dropbox Awesomeness

Like Dropbox? Who doesn’t, right? Not too long ago, I was lucky enough to be invited into David and Katie’s Mac Power User studio to talk about my favorite file system in the sky. Episode 47 is all about Dropbox Awesomeness. Riding shotgun with these rockstars through the jet wash of Merlin 2.0 was, in [...]

DropTunes Is a Web Jukebox for Your Dropbox Music Stash [Dropbox]

5 April 2011 by Jon Bennett, No Comments
DropTunes Is a Web Jukebox for Your Dropbox Music Stash [Dropbox]

You can play music tracks through Dropbox’s web interface, but only one at a time, in a very minimalist player. DropTunes provides a great web front-end for your Dropbox-synced tunes, offering Flash or HTML5-based streaming and continual playback. It’s pretty darned handy. More » Jon’s starred items in Google Reader

Cloud Storage Faceoff: Windows Live SkyDrive vs. Dropbox vs. Amazon Cloud Drive [Lifehacker Faceoff]

30 March 2011 by Jon Bennett, No Comments
Cloud Storage Faceoff: Windows Live SkyDrive vs. Dropbox vs. Amazon Cloud Drive [Lifehacker Faceoff]

With Amazon's recent entry into consumer cloud storage, we've got quite a few competitors offering great and varying options—but which one is the best? Here's a look at Windows Live SkyDrive, Dropbox, and Amazon Cloud Drive, and our top pick for storing you files in the cloud. More » Jon’s starred items in Google Reader

5 Unusual Ways to Use Dropbox You Might Not Have Thought Of

19 December 2010 by Jon Bennett, No Comments
5 Unusual Ways to Use Dropbox You Might Not Have Thought Of

Dropbox has just been upgraded to version 1.0, so we thought we’d take a look at some great ways to use it that might not have occurred to you. A free Dropbox account allows users to store up to 2GB worth of files and access them from any other Linux, Mac or Windows machine running [...]

Sync your iTunes library with Dropbox

13 November 2010 by Jon Bennett, No Comments
Sync your iTunes library with Dropbox

There are a lot of nice things about the iTunes (and Apple in general) ecosystem. As long as the way you want to work is the same as the way Apple built it, things are generally hunky-dory, easy to use, and reliable. Stray away from Apple orthodoxy, though, and things can get ugly really fast. [...]