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Finally. The must-have app for your iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch

by Brad Grier on September 30, 2009

in Doing,In the life,Lifestyle Technology,News,Reviews

I’ve been in love with Drop­box for a while now, so much so I’m pro­mot­ing it in my adspace in my sidebar.

Drop­box has made it much much easier to trans­fer files between com­puters. Sure, I could email them, but that’s not at all eleg­ant. All I do with Drop­box is copy a file to a folder, and it’s auto­ma­gic­ally copied to a Drop­box folder on all my other com­puters, as well as a private folder in my secure Drop­box online stor­age space.

Now, there’s an app for that
So aside from the usual reason for run­ning drop­box, the abil­ity to sync your files online and across com­puters, we can now add iPhone and iPod Touch to that hard­ware mix, where pre­vi­ously we had to make do with a web-application interface.

Apple has finally approved the actual nat­ive app, so here’s what you get:

  • Access your Drop­box on the go
  • Down­load files for off­line viewing
  • Sync pho­tos and videos to your Dropbox
  • Share links to files in your Dropbox

What this means — you can now eas­ily access all sorts of files among all your vari­ous com­puter on you iPhone or iPod Touch.

And, if you ‘favour­ite’ the doc­u­ment in the iPhone applic­a­tion, it’s down­loaded to your device for off­line view­ing — great for iPod Touch use out­side of a Wi-Fi zone.

So go ahead already, and down­load the app! And don’t for­get to set up a Drop­box account if you don’t already have one.

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1 KieranFrance (kieran noonan) September 30, 2009 at 1:26 pm

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2 marctaro September 30, 2009 at 6:25 pm

damn – that would be useful….wish I had one of these magical devices…

3 Brad Grier September 30, 2009 at 7:33 pm

Hey Marc, great to see you dropped by! Tess and I both find that the iPod Touch is fine for us. We have Wi-Fi almost everywhere, and the 8GB unit is all we need for our media and applications, etc. Adding a phone to the mix isn’t important to us.

Now if the iPod Touch had a camera, it’d be perfect, but that may not happen until next year.

And then when you add Dropbox, I’ve found this is indeed a ‘useful’ tool.

4 Jose HC October 5, 2009 at 7:34 am

Hi Brad – I use Dropbox on all my computers and keep my current working files there. In some ways it is my crude business continuity folder and it has actually saved me from a jam when a Vista Laptop gave up on me.

I am a fellow Social Mobilist (that’s where I found you)!

Regards,
Jose

5 Brad Grier October 5, 2009 at 9:50 am

Hi Jose, thanks for that. Yeah, Dropbox is one of those ideas that just makes sense…so much so that you wonder why one of the ‘big guys’ didn’t come up with it.

And yeah, time for me to start reading Social Mobilist more!

6 Kate January 28, 2010 at 7:32 am

Wow, I am so happy I found your blog! I will probably spend the rest of the day geeking out here. Bliss! But first I’ll be getting the Dropbox app …

7 Brad Grier January 28, 2010 at 11:38 am

Hi Kate, thanks for the kind words. Yes, do check out Dropbox – easily my top app on any platform.

And hey, very sweet site you’ve got too! Always nice to discover a photographer passionate about the craft ;)

– Brad

8 Todd February 9, 2010 at 10:57 am

Definitely one of the most useful apps I’ve seen yet! Thanks for introducing me to Dropbox!

9 Brad Grier February 11, 2010 at 9:46 am

Thanks for the comment Todd, frankly, I’m wondering how I did without DropBox before. USB drives are a great fallback, but DropBox wins because it’s just so darn convenient!

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