Curious - who uses Dropbox?

On Sat, 18 Feb 2012 13:01:31 +1300, Eric Stevens
wrote:

3. I've never felt the need for a website.

4. Dropbox lets me post anything, not just photographs.

FWIW, this shows a bit of ignoranc,e as while I understand DB has more
functionality than just a remote hosted account, one can post anything
to such as well. Don't just think of it as a web site. It is a hosted
account one can use for a myriad of uses and can be accessed via a
multitude of protocols. One nice feature is the ability to set up
multiple different password protected directories.

"tony cooper" wrote in message
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cookie-cutter ------ Tony said crop!

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On 2012-02-18 06:45:30 -0800, Alan Browne
said:

On 2012-02-17 18:22 , Savageduck wrote:

http://ppl.ug/lzG9F6OVGG4/

Nice photo of the car, but a crappy background.

;-)

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Savageduck

On 2012-02-18 07:05:01 -0800, tony cooper said:

On Sat, 18 Feb 2012 09:45:30 -0500, Alan Browne
wrote:

On 2012-02-17 18:22 , Savageduck wrote:

http://ppl.ug/lzG9F6OVGG4/

Nice photo of the car, but a crappy background.

Hmm. And here's me wondering why the photographer didn't wait until
that boring cookie-cutter-styled car moved out of the scene.

;-)

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On Sat, 18 Feb 2012 10:53:43 -0500, me wrote:

On Sat, 18 Feb 2012 13:01:31 +1300, Eric Stevens
wrote:

3. I've never felt the need for a website.

4. Dropbox lets me post anything, not just photographs.

FWIW, this shows a bit of ignoranc,e as while I understand DB has more
functionality than just a remote hosted account, one can post anything
to such as well. Don't just think of it as a web site. It is a hosted
account one can use for a myriad of uses and can be accessed via a
multitude of protocols. One nice feature is the ability to set up
multiple different password protected directories.

Whose ignorance? Have you misread what I wrote? All you have done is
expand on '4' above.

Regards,

Eric Stevens

On Sun, 19 Feb 2012 11:28:35 +1300, Eric Stevens
wrote:

On Sat, 18 Feb 2012 10:53:43 -0500, me wrote:

On Sat, 18 Feb 2012 13:01:31 +1300, Eric Stevens
wrote:

3. I've never felt the need for a website.

4. Dropbox lets me post anything, not just photographs.

FWIW, this shows a bit of ignoranc,e as while I understand DB has more
functionality than just a remote hosted account, one can post anything
to such as well. Don't just think of it as a web site. It is a hosted
account one can use for a myriad of uses and can be accessed via a
multitude of protocols. One nice feature is the ability to set up
multiple different password protected directories.

Whose ignorance? Have you misread what I wrote? All you have done is
expand on '4' above.

I'll take the ignorance back.

But I expanded on 3, not 4, including such ability which you seemed
to deem the important feature of Dropbox in your post. So if they are
the same features now you maybe see my point.

On Sun, 19 Feb 2012 16:24:00 -0500, me wrote:

On Sun, 19 Feb 2012 11:28:35 +1300, Eric Stevens
wrote:

On Sat, 18 Feb 2012 10:53:43 -0500, me wrote:

On Sat, 18 Feb 2012 13:01:31 +1300, Eric Stevens
wrote:

3. I've never felt the need for a website.

4. Dropbox lets me post anything, not just photographs.

FWIW, this shows a bit of ignoranc,e as while I understand DB has more
functionality than just a remote hosted account, one can post anything
to such as well. Don't just think of it as a web site. It is a hosted
account one can use for a myriad of uses and can be accessed via a
multitude of protocols. One nice feature is the ability to set up
multiple different password protected directories.

Whose ignorance? Have you misread what I wrote? All you have done is
expand on '4' above.

I'll take the ignorance back.

But I expanded on 3, not 4, including such ability which you seemed
to deem the important feature of Dropbox in your post. So if they are
the same features now you maybe see my point.

I think you are saying you are talking about 3.

I have never felt the need for more than the capabilities of Dropboz.
I've never felt the need for all the other things you to which you
were referring.

Regards,

Eric Stevens

On 2012-02-20 04:02 , Val Hallah wrote:
On Feb 17, 11:18 pm, Alan
wrote:
I signed up to Dropbox quite a while ago but removed the App. I was
using Evernote instead.

But for sharing files (including photos), Dropbox seems more practical
so I re-installed it and updated my account. Re-installed it on the phone.

Do you use Dropbox?

For what?

(Note, Google's "Drive" will startup soon too ...)

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I use Flickr (have been using it for some time) but am too tight to
pay for a Pro account...so now I have 28 Flickr accounts...if I
remember DB did not give much free space...?!

2 GB. More than enough for casual doc/image flips. You can "earn" more
free space too. Then it's $9.99 / month for 50GB which is steep but
could be of interest to some businesses or users, I suppose.

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Douglas Adams - (Could have been a GPS engineer).

On 2012-02-20 13:36:50 -0800, Alan Browne
said:

On 2012-02-20 04:02 , Val Hallah wrote:
On Feb 17, 11:18 pm, Alan
wrote:
I signed up to Dropbox quite a while ago but removed the App. I was
using Evernote instead.

But for sharing files (including photos), Dropbox seems more practical
so I re-installed it and updated my account. Re-installed it on the phone.

Do you use Dropbox?

For what?

(Note, Google's "Drive" will startup soon too ...)

--
"We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty."
Douglas Adams - (Could have been a GPS engineer).

I use Flickr (have been using it for some time) but am too tight to
pay for a Pro account...so now I have 28 Flickr accounts...if I
remember DB did not give much free space...?!

2 GB. More than enough for casual doc/image flips. You can "earn"
more free space too. Then it's $9.99 / month for 50GB which is steep
but could be of interest to some businesses or users, I suppose.

My free DB account is up to 2.25GB. Whoopee!!

Pogoplug starts with 5GB free, then has three pay tiers. 30GB for
$4.95/month, 100GB for $14.95/month, and 1000GB for $59.95/month. ...or
add your own private unlimited cloud for no monthly fee with the
purchase of a Pogoplug device and whatever network or storage you
choose to connect to.
http://pogoplug.com/expansion

I have the free 5GB + a Pogoplug device and a 1TB SATA hard drive.


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Regards,

Savageduck

On 2012-02-20 17:17 , Savageduck wrote:
On 2012-02-20 13:36:50 -0800, Alan Browne
said:

On 2012-02-20 04:02 , Val Hallah wrote:
On Feb 17, 11:18 pm, Alan
wrote:
I signed up to Dropbox quite a while ago but removed the App. I was
using Evernote instead.

But for sharing files (including photos), Dropbox seems more practical
so I re-installed it and updated my account. Re-installed it on the
phone.

Do you use Dropbox?

For what?

(Note, Google's "Drive" will startup soon too ...)

--
"We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty."
Douglas Adams - (Could have been a GPS engineer).

I use Flickr (have been using it for some time) but am too tight to
pay for a Pro account...so now I have 28 Flickr accounts...if I
remember DB did not give much free space...?!

2 GB. More than enough for casual doc/image flips. You can "earn" more
free space too. Then it's $9.99 / month for 50GB which is steep but
could be of interest to some businesses or users, I suppose.

My free DB account is up to 2.25GB. Whoopee!!

Pogoplug starts with 5GB free, then has three pay tiers. 30GB for
$4.95/month, 100GB for $14.95/month, and 1000GB for $59.95/month. ...or
add your own private unlimited cloud for no monthly fee with the
purchase of a Pogoplug device and whatever network or storage you choose
to connect to.
http://pogoplug.com/expansion

I have the free 5GB + a Pogoplug device and a 1TB SATA hard drive.

But you have to buy a pogoplug widget and imbue it with a disk. It has
to be left on. It has to have access to the gateway (modem).

With dropbox I can shut the house down and still have access when traveling.

2 GB is more than enough for me. I doubt I'll have more than 100 MB in
there at any given time.

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"We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty."
Douglas Adams - (Could have been a GPS engineer).