Dropbox
I know this is also in my Facebook status, and, no, I'm not getting paid.
I'm pretty impressed with this web service called Dropbox. It does backup and syncing between computers. You download this software that basically makes one of your folders coexist between different computers. So if I do something on my laptop, I can see it on my work and home desktop computers, and, I can log into their website and get it from a web browser, too.
It's also cool that dropbox does versioning. If you load a file and change it, dropbox records all the previous versions of that file. So if you don't like the change, you can go back to the time you saved it a week ago. It was a really easy install on Ubuntu, and usually the Linux version is the messiest and most problematic install.
You can make public folders and put stuff there like this desktop background.
There's two faults I can see with it:
I'm pretty impressed with this web service called Dropbox. It does backup and syncing between computers. You download this software that basically makes one of your folders coexist between different computers. So if I do something on my laptop, I can see it on my work and home desktop computers, and, I can log into their website and get it from a web browser, too.
It's also cool that dropbox does versioning. If you load a file and change it, dropbox records all the previous versions of that file. So if you don't like the change, you can go back to the time you saved it a week ago. It was a really easy install on Ubuntu, and usually the Linux version is the messiest and most problematic install.
You can make public folders and put stuff there like this desktop background.
There's two faults I can see with it:
- Google Docs will give you much of the same functionality (versioning and co-locating) if you don't mind doing your editing with Google Docs.
- The paid version doesn't seem worth it. They offer 2 GB for free and 50 GB for $100 a year. I'm guessing people will either want the service for the stuff they're actively working on (which for me, is way less than 2GB) or they'll want something for their music, photos, video and mail archives (about 35 GB and growing fast for me, and some people have way more stuff).