
Dropbox has become one of those quintessential tools among tech enthusiasts in the past few years. It’s a free and paid service that allows you to keep your files in the cloud and among all your devices. If you haven’t yet, take a look and sign up for 2 GBs of free space. If you use my referral link, you’ll get an additional 250mb of space.
One of the major distinctions with these kinds of services is that Dropbox keeps a copy of all your files right on the devices. Instead of just accessing your files in the cloud (which you can do through your web browser), Dropbox keeps copies of the files on your laptop, desktop, tablet, mobile phone and synchronizes all of them together with the cloud. It does this seamlessly with the operating system, be it Mac OS X, iOS, Windows, Android or Linux, without any effort on your part. There’s a lot going on behind the scenes to make this all work and that is what makes Dropbox more successful than other competitors. [Update: During the writing of this article, Google Drive just released. More on that below.]
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