There is a free online service that I use all the time and that is so 
good that I have decided to share it with the list. It's called 
Dropbox. It is a simple to use online storage site. You get 2GB of 
free easily accessible storage. Of course, you may pay for more 
storage if you need it.

All you do is create the account here 
https://www.dropbox.com/referrals/NTE0NDEwOTE5  , and then download, 
and install the application on your computer. Once you do that you 
will see this little  blue icon that looks like a open box running in 
the lower right hand tray of your desktop. That is the dropbox, and 
represents a My Dropbox folder in your My Documents folder.

Now anything you put in that folder will automatically sink with your 
online Dropbox folder. I use it to keep files I am working on in sync 
from my laptop to my desktop, but it could sync to any single or 
multiple of computers.  If I am out or about, and I download 
something to my laptop, I can put it in my Dropbox, and when I get 
back to my desktop it will be waiting for me.

There is a public folder as well that you can share with others. I 
can make files available to others I give access rights to. You could 
use it for audio files, as a free backup for your documents, or 
whatever. The different things you can use the Dropbox for are 
limited only by your imagination. For example, you could link to each 
others drop box account, and drop a audio file in the public folder, 
it will sink with everybody else automatically who is authorized to 
access that folder. I use this make files available to my sisters.

All you have to do is log in from any computer to access your 
data.  That makes it  a great way to back up your important 
documents. Just make sure you save the file to that folder. If you 
are worried about security then use another freeware application 
called True Crypt to create an AES encrypted driv,e and put the 
container file in your Dropbox. Now everything you put on the drive 
will be AES encrypted and will now reside on your computer, and in 
the cloud. Loose your computer, or the hard drive dies, and it 
doesn't matter because your files are safe online, in the cloud. And 
you can access them from any computer just by logging in. Once you 
install it, all you have to do is put things in the folder, and the 
rest just happens.

I have been using Dropbox for over a year. It's free, easy, flawless, 
and brain dead to use. It is the best free service I have seen to 
date... Period. I can't think of a single reason that you would not 
want to install it, unless of course you never go online.

To get started click on this link and create an account.

https://www.dropbox.com/referrals/NTE0NDEwOTE5

Have fun with it.

Mark Rode
List Owner PCBUILD\PCSOFT

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