You can now get 50GB of space for your Dropbox. If you pay monthly its $9.99 per month, or you can pay an anual $99 fee. Unfortunately for me they only accept credit cards and I dont have one (Credit Cards are evil!). Theres a petition to get them to support Paypal, so lets hope it pays off as I neeeeeed this!
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I recently discovered a new online storage solution thats just come out of beta and been fully released into the wild.
Dropbox is a highly user friendly storage solution designed with the ethos that little or no effort should be needed on the users behalf to keep their documents syncronised with the online storage system.
Dropbox achieves this very well. You download a small executable from their website, install it and signup. You then choose where you’d like to store your Dropbox folder on your local filesystem. Once setup this folder and anything inside it is automatically syncronised with Dropbox’s servers.
The brilliant thing about Dropbox is that you can install the client on any PC, login with your details and your Dropbox folder is automatically syncronised with this new computer.
Dropbox also has a web-interface if you dont want to install the client (if your using a public computer for example). From it you can upload and download files, aswell as manage existing files already in your Dropbox.
If you dont happen to have access to a computer at anytime, you can also access Dropbox via its iPhone portal (this is just a page styled to work better on mobile browsers, so will actually work with most smartphones and PDA’s).
Dropbox also allows you to share certain files publicly. A folder named ‘Public’ is created inside your Dropbox and any files placed in this folder can be made available. All you need to do is right click the file and select the ‘copy public link’ option, then paste this link in an email or IM chat.
You can also make groups with other Dropbox users in and share certain files to the group, making it a potentiall useful businessfile sharing tool.
There are Windows, Linux and Mac OSX clients available, allowing you to sync between these 3 platforms.
Currently, users can signup for free and get 2GB of online storage. Apparently these 2GB accounts will always be free, which is great for those of us who dont like paying for anything. They are currently working on implimenting larger storage space, but this will probably be a chargable extra. A price of $9.99 per month for 50GB is being bandied around at the moment, which sounds very reasonable to me.
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