September 4, 2012
by Neil T
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Update (April 2013): Since this article was written, Amazon launched full file synchronisation for Cloud Drive, in a manner similar to Dropbox. Therefore this review is outdated. Amazon recently launched its Cloud Drive service, which gives every Amazon customer 5 … Continue reading
August 8, 2012
by Neil T
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Yesterday I talked about what can happen if someone is able to break into your iCloud account, and also the importance of two-factor authentication, which may have thwarted that specific attack had the account owner enabled it on his Google … Continue reading
July 30, 2012
by Neil T
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After iCloud’s launch with iOS 5 last year, last week’s launch of Mountain Lion saw another part of iCloud enabled – Documents in the iCloud. This brings iCloud closer to Dropbox, Microsoft SkyDrive and Google Drive in allowing users to … Continue reading
April 29, 2012
by Neil T
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Although I’ve made a few edits to my SkyDrive vs Dropbox vs Google Drive blog post from last week, I haven’t gone into much detail about some of the more technical aspects of the services. Dropbox, being the more mature … Continue reading
April 24, 2012
by Neil T
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Back in December I did a quick comparative review of Microsoft’s SkyDrive and Dropbox, and basically declared Dropbox the winner. Things have changed since then – Skydrive has become much simpler, and Google Drive has launched (literally a few hours … Continue reading
April 17, 2012
by Neil T
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Several methods of sharing photos from the Instagram app to the Google+ social network, using ifttt, Picasa, Dropbox and Android. Continue reading
March 8, 2012
by Neil T
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If you’re a Dropbox user (and if not, here’s my referral link to sign up), then you may be interested to know that you can get up to 3 GB additional space for free, simply by testing out the latest … Continue reading
December 22, 2011
by Neil T
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Last week’s post about Delicious and Pinboard got me thinking. Pinboard has a clear business model – everyone pays to use it. Delicious’ business model is not so clear – there’s no advertising or premium accounts available. So how does … Continue reading
December 18, 2011
by Neil T
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Update (April 2012): I have since written a new article comparing SkyDrive, Dropbox and Google Drive which is more up to date. You are best reading that guide, rather than this one, as some of the information about SkyDrive mentioned … Continue reading
December 22, 2010
by Neil T
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I’ve mentioned Dropbox on here a few times – right now I’m mostly using it to keep my 1password keychain synchronised between machines, but it’s also handy for making documents available on my iPhone with minimal effort. You get 2 gigabytes of storage as standard, but you can very quickly grow this, up to a maximum of 16 GB.
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