I finally downloaded and started to play with it. I was a bit
discouraged with its commercialism .. it is a "service" after all, and
the install crashed my computer! So in un-installed it and started
looking at more use of some of my favorite equivalent programs:
1 - Mac has a drop box built in, if you have a webdav interface
available on your web hosting service. Mine (joyent.com) does:
bingodisk. For $19/yr I get a 10GB webdav datastore. Using the
finder's Go->Connect To Server lets me have a standard finder window
onto my bingodisk.
2 - Several non-finder solutions exist. One Don Begley introduced me
to was ExpanDrive, which uses ftp/sftp, and produces the same finder
file/volume interface. It does not yet support webdav.
3 - Just use most FTP clients, which often have scripts for drag/
drop. Transmit, for example, has demo applescripts, one of which is a
droplet program.
-- Owen
On Nov 27, 2008, at 12:06 PM, M Suazo wrote:
Not yet - it looks intriguing, but the
"Dropbox reserves the right, at any time, to change or impose fees for
access to and use of the Site, Content, Files and/or Services."
language in their ToS <https://www.getdropbox.com/terms#pricing> is
somewhat
disconcerting...
Mark
On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 7:43 PM, Owen Densmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
Has anyone tried Dropbox:
http://www.getdropbox.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dropbox_(storage_provider)<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dropbox_%28storage_provider%29
>
It looks interesting but I wonder how well it all works. Backup is
becoming more interesting nowadays with things like the Apple Time-
Machine
and the terabyte Time-Capsule. Maybe this'll be an interesting
alternative.
-- Owen
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