I rarely carry a USB drive any more, now that I have found Dropbox! Not only is it a free online storage location, but it is cross platform as well! I can store a file in dropbox on my Mac, then open the file from dropbox on my Windows machine, my iPad, and my Droid phone! I have all my important documents accessible from anywhere (and yes, I do back them up offline, “just in case”).
I found out yesterday you can even share a folder inside your dropbox. As an Ambassador for FableVision Learning, I received an invitation to share a folder that contained a “yearbook” of all the current Ambassadors. We each have access to it and can edit our own contact information. VERY slick!
To start your FREE dropbox account go to: http://www.dropbox.com/ Once you open an account, there is a free app for the iphone, iPad, Android, and Blackberry, as well as downloading the application to your Mac or PC!
There are a lot of reasons we chose to go with Dropbox. Although iCloud works well for doneumct-based apps, it’s very difficult and buggy to implement for an app that isn’t doneumct based, like Chronicle.But more importantly, iCloud is limited to Mac App Store Apps. I.e. if we used iCloud syncing, all of our users who bought from our website would not be able to sync at all. So that would be really lame.The way we’ve set up Dropbox syncing is very seamless. You simply type in your Dropbox username and password on Mac and iPhone, and the setup is done. You don’t have to install Dropbox or anything, you just need to create a Dropbox account, and so I think for the majority of people, it will work well.A lot of other prominent apps use Dropbox syncing, and it works really well for them (i.e. 1Password), so I think we’re in good company.