Dropbox .. anyone tried it yet?
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Dropbox .. anyone tried it yet?
 
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Has anyone tried Dropbox:
http://www.getdropbox.com/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dropbox_(storage_provider) It looks interesting but I wonder how well it all works. Backup is becoming more interesting nowadays with things like the Apple Time- Machine and the terabyte Time-Capsule. Maybe this'll be an interesting alternative. -- Owen ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org |
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Not yet - it looks intriguing, but the
"Dropbox reserves the right, at any time, to change or impose fees for access to and use of the Site, Content, Files and/or Services." language in their ToS is somewhat disconcerting... Mark
On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 7:43 PM, Owen Densmore <[hidden email]> wrote: Has anyone tried Dropbox: ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org |
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I finally downloaded and started to play with it. I was a bit
discouraged with its commercialism .. it is a "service" after all, and the install crashed my computer! So in un-installed it and started looking at more use of some of my favorite equivalent programs: 1 - Mac has a drop box built in, if you have a webdav interface available on your web hosting service. Mine (joyent.com) does: bingodisk. For $19/yr I get a 10GB webdav datastore. Using the finder's Go->Connect To Server lets me have a standard finder window onto my bingodisk. 2 - Several non-finder solutions exist. One Don Begley introduced me to was ExpanDrive, which uses ftp/sftp, and produces the same finder file/volume interface. It does not yet support webdav. 3 - Just use most FTP clients, which often have scripts for drag/ drop. Transmit, for example, has demo applescripts, one of which is a droplet program. -- Owen On Nov 27, 2008, at 12:06 PM, M Suazo wrote: > Not yet - it looks intriguing, but the > > "Dropbox reserves the right, at any time, to change or impose fees for > access to and use of the Site, Content, Files and/or Services." > > language in their ToS <https://www.getdropbox.com/terms#pricing> is > somewhat > disconcerting... > > Mark > > On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 7:43 PM, Owen Densmore <[hidden email]> > wrote: > >> Has anyone tried Dropbox: >> http://www.getdropbox.com/ >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dropbox_(storage_provider)<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dropbox_%28storage_provider%29 >> > >> >> It looks interesting but I wonder how well it all works. Backup is >> becoming more interesting nowadays with things like the Apple Time- >> Machine >> and the terabyte Time-Capsule. Maybe this'll be an interesting >> alternative. >> >> -- Owen >> >> >> >> ============================================================ >> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv >> Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College >> lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org >> > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org |
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I have 3 machines hooked up to dropbox - Linux and windows. And have
had no problems, but only very light usage. If they do start charging then would revert to Webdav. Regards, Saul On 11/28/08, Owen Densmore <[hidden email]> wrote: > I finally downloaded and started to play with it. I was a bit > discouraged with its commercialism .. it is a "service" after all, and > the install crashed my computer! So in un-installed it and started > looking at more use of some of my favorite equivalent programs: > > 1 - Mac has a drop box built in, if you have a webdav interface > available on your web hosting service. Mine (joyent.com) does: > bingodisk. For $19/yr I get a 10GB webdav datastore. Using the > finder's Go->Connect To Server lets me have a standard finder window > onto my bingodisk. > > 2 - Several non-finder solutions exist. One Don Begley introduced me > to was ExpanDrive, which uses ftp/sftp, and produces the same finder > file/volume interface. It does not yet support webdav. > > 3 - Just use most FTP clients, which often have scripts for drag/ > drop. Transmit, for example, has demo applescripts, one of which is a > droplet program. > > -- Owen > > > On Nov 27, 2008, at 12:06 PM, M Suazo wrote: > >> Not yet - it looks intriguing, but the >> >> "Dropbox reserves the right, at any time, to change or impose fees for >> access to and use of the Site, Content, Files and/or Services." >> >> language in their ToS <https://www.getdropbox.com/terms#pricing> is >> somewhat >> disconcerting... >> >> Mark >> >> On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 7:43 PM, Owen Densmore <[hidden email]> >> wrote: >> >>> Has anyone tried Dropbox: >>> http://www.getdropbox.com/ >>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dropbox_(storage_provider)<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dropbox_%28storage_provider%29 >>> >>> > >>> >>> It looks interesting but I wonder how well it all works. Backup is >>> becoming more interesting nowadays with things like the Apple Time- >>> Machine >>> and the terabyte Time-Capsule. Maybe this'll be an interesting >>> alternative. >>> >>> -- Owen >>> >>> >>> >>> ============================================================ >>> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv >>> Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College >>> lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org >>> >> ============================================================ >> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv >> Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College >> lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org > -- Saul Caganoff Enterprise IT Architect LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/scaganoff ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org |
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