I’ve recently discovered a fantastic application called Dropbox and I wanted to share it with you.

Dropbox is a free application (with paid extras if you want more space) which gives a really easy way of storing and synchronising files across multiple computers.

I installed Dropbox onto my main home PC, and also onto my two training laptops. It creates a dropbox folder in the My Documents of each computer. When I want to make a file available I just copy and paste it into the dropbox folder.

The next time I connect my laptop to the internet, dropbox checks for new or updated files and updates the dropbox folder on the laptop.

This is excellent for presentations, where I sometimes edit powerpoint files or IWB files. I can then drop it into the dropbox and all my other computers get the most recent version of that file.

As well as that – you can also access your Dropbox area via the web. So if I am on a school machine and I really need a copy of that presentation, I can just log in to Dropbox and save it to the local machine I am on.

And.. even more brilliantly you can get a Dropbox iPhone app, which lets you see all the content of your Dropbox on your phone. And even open up Office files and images. Excellent.

It’s made sharing files between my laptop and desktop so much easier. It’s an amazing little app. You get 2GB of storage for free (which you can extend slightly if you refer others) and then you can get 50GB for $9.99 a month or 100GB for $19.99 a month. I’m still using the free version for now – it’s enough for the type of files I want to swap between computers. I’m not using it for cloud system backups just yet.

Dropbox also gives you a public-facing area which will let you share files with others. So for example I can put a file into the Public folder, and share the link with other people. So here’s a very small notebook file : Paired Words. or my War of the Worlds wordle.

Go get Dropbox now.

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