How to Easily Transfer and Share files between your Mac, iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch even PC and Android devices
Monday March 5th, 2012
You got your new iPhone or new iPad, then a time came when you wanted to have some extra-ordinary file on your PC or your android device to be opened up on your other device and it turned out that iTunes will not sync it or you just don’t wanna bother transferring the file first to iTunes and then whatever.
Dropbox comes to the rescue. Thanks to Dropbox, once you put any file in it whether you are on your computer, or your mobile device, it will store them in the cloud and sync it to all of your devices such as your PC, Mac, iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch even devices running on Android, Windows Phone 7, Blackberry and Linux. What’s more, you can use Dropbox not only for personal synchronization needs, but also for sharing files with others and collaboration in real-time. Dropbox offers both free and paid services.
Why DropBox?
There are dozens of other applications either as SaaS or PaaS and all claiming to get the same job done. Among all, Dropbox was and still the best and painless (even Apple attempted to buy Dropbox before their iCloud venture – an argument for another post) I’ve ever used. It’s fast, easy-to-use, practical – the only downside of it is on mobile devices where it doesn’t push the content unlike iCloud, you need to be connected to Internet to access all your files except for the one or two which once you access it on your mobile device is/are cached for offline viewing.
Dropbox replaces
- Emailing file attachments to yourself and other people
- Using USB drives to move files between computers
- Renaming files to keep a history of previous versions
- Complicated backup software and hardware
How Dropbox works
Here’s a short video explaining how it works:
How do I get Dropbox for free?
For a starter you can sign up for a free 2 GB account (if you use my referral code, you will get an additional 250 MB)
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Got an extra 250 mb thanks to you, and the report I worked on the ferry on my macbook was copied to my pc at work even before I arrived at the office and my iphone at the same time! Simply great, and it works definitely better than icloud.