dropbox tips and techniques

Posted January 24th, 2010 by Steve Backman
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Dropbox is intuitive to get started with,yet a lot of power sits behind the scenes. Here is a page with dropbox tips and techniques:

http://wiki.dropbox.com/TipsAndTricks

and here are some cool add-ons for web integration and other ideas:

http://wiki.dropbox.com/DropboxAddons

Not familiar with dropbox.com? We at database designs are great fans. Dropbox has several faces:

* ability to sync files between your own desktop and notebook computers, or work and home
* ability to have a shared project folder
* ability to track versions of documents  

Backing Up is Not Hard to Do

Posted April 10th, 2008 by Steve Backman
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Recently my Carbonite back-up stopped working. Carbonite is one of the new breed of low-cost, on-line, continuous data back-up services. I have tried Mozy and Jungle Disk as well, and stick with Carbonite because I started with it, it works quietly and reliably, the control panel is simple, and its costs just $50 a year for unlimited storage.