Collaborating with DropBox

So exactly what is dropbox???...........

Well Dropbox is a free service that lets you bring all your photos, docs, and videos anywhere. Any file you save to your Dropbox will also automatically save to all your computers, phones, and even the Dropbox website. This means that you can start working on your computer at school or the office, and finish on your home computer. Never email yourself a file again!

 

A Dropbox  Free accounts come with 2GB of space (deleted files and revisions won’t count against your limit). You can always check your usage by visiting your account settings page at https://www.dropbox.com/account. The various ways one can accumulate storage with this service. For the free accounts, every referral you make to a friend that eventually gets activated gets you 250MB additional storage. Its possible to scale this storage upto 16GB (plenty of free storage to allow you do you collaboration).

 After you install Dropbox on your computer, a Dropbox folder is created. This folder is just like any other folder on your computer, but with a twist. Any file you save to your Dropbox folder is also saved to all your other computers, phones, and the Dropbox website.  When you try dragging some photos or docs into your Dropbox. Then visit the Dropbox website at https://www.dropbox.com. When you log in, your files will be waiting for you!

 

With Dropbox a team of collaborators can jointly edit documents and theirs are changes get to be seen by all the team members in realtime (for as long as the all the changes are synced on the site).

 And if you are wondering if dropbox can meet you security requirements as far as providing you with the required privacy of your files is concerned.  Well Dropbox takes the security of your files and of our software very seriously. Dropbox uses Secure Socket Layer (SSL) and AES-256 encryption. AES-256 is the same encryption standard used by banks to secure customer data.

 

And when it comes accessing your content on the go, the Dropbox App is available for iPhone, iPad, Android, and Blackberry. To install Dropbox on your mobile device, visit http://www.dropbox.com/anywhere. You can also get to your Dropbox at any time by visiting http://www.dropbox.com from your phone.

And just in case you find dropbox useful for you and need additional storage beyond that free provided by the free account, well then visit https://www.dropbox.com/ plans to view our avail able subscriptions.

 

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