Dropbox

The book I read to research this post was Dropbox In 30 Minutes by Ian Lamont which is a very good book that I bought from kindle. This book is around 100 pages so is a fair length and as the title suggests is intended to be read in 30 minutes and there is a whole series of these mostly on computing. Dropbox is the first website to be a cloud computing service and allows you to synchronize your computer either Mac or Pc with smartphones and tablets and online storage. The first 2 GB is free and it only updates new files and changed files each time. The website for it is http://dropbox.com and there is a mobile site at m.dropbox.com. If you have application software installed it doesn’t synchronize files with that program automatically. That you must do separately and when you delete a file it is possible to restore it with in 30 days. There is also a service called Packrat for businesses and pro users that restores files deleted more than 30 days ago. Anyone with a paid account is a pro user. There is a piece of Dropbox software that you install on your computer and when you are online automatically synchronizes your computer with your account in the background. Most computers built in the last few years work with this software. Of course there are other similar services to Dropbox like Skydrive and many of these also have a basic free storage option. I did really enjoyed reading this book and would recommend it. Nobody seems to have written a full length manual on this subject which I think I for one would definitely buy but maybe there isn’t enough to it to justify that.