New Dropbox iPhone client app
I was really pleased to see that the excellent Dropbox has released an app for the iPhone. I’ve been using Dropbox for ages, and it’s a brilliant solution to the problem of working on more than one device (eg home computer, work computer, laptop, iPhone). Dropbox automatically and seamlessly synchronises files that you put into your Dropbox directory across all devices. To use it, you just sign up for an account (free or paid) and then download the software and install it on all the machines you want to use it on. There are versions for Windows, Mac, Linux, and now your iPhone.
Each installation creates a Dropbox directory on that machine. Anything you put into that directory appears, virtually instantly, on your other machines. Synching happens in the background, automatically. Dropbox also saves your files onto its servers, and there is a web interface to manage those files directly. So even if you find yourself on a machine that you haven’t installed Dropbox to, you can still download your files via the web!
The free plan includes a very generous amount of online storage, which you can increase by upgrading to paid.
The iPhone app is of course free, but you’ll need an account to use it. You can sign up for a free account here.
November 2nd, 2009 at 3:58 pm
[...] What Dropbox does is create a directory, called your Dropbox, on every computer that you install it on. Any file you put in the Dropbox is immediately copied up to the Dropbox server, and then synchronised with your other computers as soon as you log on. This happens automatically and seamlessly, and it doesn’t matter what platform you use (I have a Mac desktop and a Linux netbook, and Dropbox synchronises both instantly and effortlessly). There’s even an iPhone client! [...]