On Nov 27, 2010, at 6:55 PM, Owen Densmore wrote: > Anyone on the list using dropbox a lot? I'm wondering if the iPad/iPhone app > would be useful.
Wow, *great* info from everyone, thanks. I wanted to share why I'm interested just in case others have tried this: I've decided to abandon the Huge Laptop approach and instead live in a "digital ecology". You know: - TV (just got a new one and it has streaming from several sources built in!) - Slingbox for streaming TiVo to iPad/Phone and laptop/server - TiVo for storing/managing cable media - Home Network (Airport Extreme with AirDisk and Guest network) - WiFi printer - backups (Time Machine + mirror of all disks) - iPad/Pod/Phone (which sync rather than share, in general) - Home Server (Mac Mini) - A Very Light laptop (Macbook Air soon). - Web services (Joyent hosting, Amazon/Google mass storage [50Mb/s transfers!] Quite a list! But it really is not over the top, and indeed many of you are there or beyond! I've taken several interesting steps recently: - SSH key-pair access to all systems, including VNC/Screen Sharing. - SSH tunnels for network disks, music, screen sharing, web sharing etc. - Cloud email (IMAP on Joyent and GMail) - AirDisk TimeMachine so that I backup by walking into my home network But DropBox and other services lurk out there, with their siren call, so I thought I'd ask about DropBox, and more important, any stunt you use to make The Network Is The Computer .. ways to have all your data everywhere. - How is Dropbox better than web storage + mounting remote volumes? - Passwords and, oddly enough, Browser Bookmarks are still difficult. Any ideas? - Although I think of rsync as too fussy, do any of you use it in a nifty way? - And maybe most important: the network! Do you have a great provider for data to the home? - Or do you find 3G/4G cellular the way to go nowadays? (My DSL is really slow, and I think 3G/4G is just starting to happen here. Fast cable would be great.) Love to know how you handle your own digital ecology! -- Owen ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
