On Nov 27, 2010, at 6:55 PM, Owen Densmore wrote:
> Anyone on the list using dropbox a lot? I'm wondering if the iPad/iPhone app would be useful.
Wow, *great* info from everyone, thanks. I wanted to share why I'm interested just in case others have tried this:
I've decided to abandon the Huge Laptop approach and instead live in a "digital ecology". You know:
- TV (just got a new one and it has streaming from several sources built in!)
- Slingbox for streaming TiVo to iPad/Phone and laptop/server
- TiVo for storing/managing cable media
- Home Network (Airport Extreme with AirDisk and Guest network)
- WiFi printer
- backups (Time Machine + mirror of all disks)
- iPad/Pod/Phone (which sync rather than share, in general)
- Home Server (Mac Mini)
- A Very Light laptop (Macbook Air soon).
- Web services (Joyent hosting, Amazon/Google mass storage [50Mb/s transfers!]
Quite a list! But it really is not over the top, and indeed many of you are there or beyond!
I've taken several interesting steps recently:
- SSH key-pair access to all systems, including VNC/Screen Sharing.
- SSH tunnels for network disks, music, screen sharing, web sharing etc.
- Cloud email (IMAP on Joyent and GMail)
- AirDisk TimeMachine so that I backup by walking into my home network
But DropBox and other services lurk out there, with their siren call, so I thought I'd ask about DropBox, and more important, any stunt you use to make The Network Is The Computer .. ways to have all your data everywhere.
- How is Dropbox better than web storage + mounting remote volumes?
- Passwords and, oddly enough, Browser Bookmarks are still difficult. Any ideas?
- Although I think of rsync as too fussy, do any of you use it in a nifty way?
- And maybe most important: the network! Do you have a great provider for data to the home?
- Or do you find 3G/4G cellular the way to go nowadays?
(My DSL is really slow, and I think 3G/4G is just starting to happen here. Fast cable would be great.)
Love to know how you handle your own digital ecology!
-- Owen
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