Today’s Brief: If you’re always searching for your portable thumb USB drive, consider using Dropbox!
How It Works
Has this ever happened to you? You’ve been working on a blog post document in a text editor (or a Word, Excel, Photoshop, etc. project) while on your work computer or at a friend’s house and you want to save it to your portable USB drive to take home.
Problem: You don’t have it with you. Bummer.
Solution: Save it to the Dropbox folder on the computer and when you open your laptop at home, your file is there and automatically updated.
Dropbox installs in minutes and is free. It’s a great way to save files without the need for a thumb drive. It uses cloud computing, kind of like your blog software, to store files on Dropbox server and automatically updates to whichever computers you choose to link to your Dropbox.
I stumbled across Dropbox and man, am I ever glad I did. 2 GB of free storage (paid version has a lot more, but the free account is perfect for transporting files between computers) and if you refer people to Dropbox and they sign up for a free account, you’ll receive an additional 225 MB of storage on your own free account.