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Dropbox recently announced support for screenshot sharing and iPhoto imports, and now to up the ante even more, you can now copy file links directly to the Windows & Mac clipboards for easy sharing.
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Dropbox has released an experimental update (version 2.3.12) that is geared for better productivity. The update brings an easier way to share your screenshots and an iPhoto import tool for Macs that will automatically mirror your iPhoto library in Dropbox. Dropbox will take in feedback from its user base and there's a better than probable chance that the features will be part of the final stable release.
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If you've ever had to send a large file over the internet, you probably know it's not always easy. Most email clients and servers, as well as cloud services like Dropbox have file size limits, and the process can be rather slow to upload and send. Minbox brings the process directly to your Mac as a lightweight app that rests in your menu bar. The developers who also founded the popular digital journal web application Penzu, even claim that their service is twice as fast Dropbox.
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As the push towards web apps has evolved, we're now met with two powerful cloud solutions -- SkyDrive and Google Drive. These two options offer all the tools needed for file synchronization and office productivity. However, while both of them can be great, only one of them can be the best solution for office productivity. In order to objectively evaluate which solution is more ideal, we will take a close look at both. Who shall be the winner?
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Kloudless closes the gap between email and cloud-storage, creating a link that makes perfect sense, is incredibly convenient, and is one of those features that you won't know how to live without once you get it set up. Kloudless serves several functions - one of which is to automatically back up your email attachments to cloud-based storage accounts.
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It's becoming apparent that cloud storage is the new standard these days, and Google recently recognized a need to help users keep their files in a unified space. with that in mind, Google announced on Monday that it is now offering 15GB of free storage across three of its most-used services: Google Drive, Gmail, and Google+ Photos. Google Apps users will receive 30GB across the three services.
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Similar to cloud-based storage and sharing sites such as Dropbox and Google Drive, Amazon has now added a way to backup photos to Amazon Cloud Drive via its new Amazon Cloud Drive Photos app for iPhone, which joins the existing Cloud Drive apps for and Android, Windows and Mac. Amazon Cloud Drive provides users with 5GB of free storage space, which Amazon says is enough to store up to 2,000 photos.
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Cloud-based file sync services are easy to use and work well, but your privacy may or may not be your first priority. Not to mention the fact that these services always come with a storage quota, which you can work to maximize maximize, but a quota is a quota. If you're longing for an alternative, you should check out BitTorrent Sync.
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Google Drive is similar to the popularly used cloud storage service, Dropbox, but Drive includes built-in document creation features that are missing in Dropbox. And though Dropbox integrates with dozens of third-party applications, Google Drive contains convenient document sharing and collaboration features that Google and iPad users should be taking advantage of. Chris Hoffman has already reviewed Google Drive for Android, and in this review I will cover the iPad version.
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SugarSync has just released a massive update to its iOS application with a spanking new layout. The update also includes a greatly improved menu system that streamlines access to files stored in the cloud through the service. The overall goal of the new design is simplicity, with everything placed in what should be the most logical and convenient location possible. The look and feel also matches the app's desktop counterpart, right down to the color scheme.
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SugarSync is an app much like any other standard cloud storage service such as Dropbox, Google Drive, Windows SkyDrive, iCloud, etc. However, its developers have taken a close look at these services and realized that they all do one thing - confine you to a box. SugarSync does its best to take you outside of the box that most cloud storage services confine your shared files to.
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Amazon is throwing its hat all the way in the ring of the battle for cloud storage supremacy with the introduction of desktop syncing for its Amazon Cloud Drive service. This puts it at a competitive level with other popular services such as Dropbox, Google Drive, and Microsoft SkyDrive. Prior to this update, the service was only available using the Web interface, which limited its use compared to the competition.
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The agility, flexibility, and low-cost scale ups turn cloud storage options into more than an online vault to back up your documents and files. But cloud storage is more than these important but mundane uses. As users across the world prove, cloud storage gives us so many creative uses to try out. What’s also attractive is cloud services like Dropbox, SkyDrive, Google Drive, Sugar Sync etc. come with free options.
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Cloud storage services offer a minimum amount of free space to everyone who signs up, but you can often get more. You can upgrade your cloud drive with gigabytes and gigabytes of free space in a few easy steps, often just by referring friends to your service of choice. The free space you can get using these methods doesn’t expire. You’ll have the space forever.
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We put our files in the cloud to make things easier – we can access them anywhere and it’s our cloud storage provider’s job to keep them safe, not ours. But it doesn’t matter how reliable a cloud storage service is if you delete a file from your cloud drive and want it back later. Luckily, there are several ways you can restore deleted data. None of these methods are completely foolproof.
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