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Sep 12

Dropbox: File Sync Across Multiple Machines

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As some of you may know I have quite a few computers that I use (at last count I had 1 x windows (desktop), 1 x windows (laptop), 1 x iMac, 1 x MacBook Pro and 1 x Asus eee running Linux). Depending on where I am I could be working on anyone of the machines at any time during the day. I quite often start working on a file on one machine before moving to another later in the day (i.e. start at work and finish at home). The hardest part of being mobile and migrating between computers like I do is making sure that each version of the file is kept upto date on all the machines. Obviously I could keep the files on a usb stick and just carry them around on that, but to be honest I don’t always remember to take my stick with me. Yesterday I posted about a free offer from File Savr a useful tool for transferring files to people. But that still relies onme remembering to upload the files before I leave. Late last night I got an email about a service I’ve been waiting to try for a while
Dropbox has been in private beta for a while now but yesterday I got an email telling me that it was open to the public.

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Mar 23

Back in the saddle

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Been a while since i posted anything on here, mainly because I’ve been rushed off my feet. Changes a foot at work have taken over my life it would seem.

Something don’t change though, I still look for tools to make my life easier. As part of my work I support a program with a database back end that can get fairly large. Sometimes larger than the size limit of most email accounts, so I have spent a lot of time looking for ways around this, ways of getting a file to my network from a clients when the file is bigger than a few Meg. Continue reading »

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