New Technology Reviews!.: Dropbox

HTC partners with Dropbox, offers all Android users 5GB free storage

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Today HTC made the partnership official on their Facebook page but they didn’t share any other details regarding the partnership or how they plan to move forward. Whether this will only be with new HTC Android phones, or if old users can sign up and receive the same treatment is not yet known. Either way Dropbox is amazing and I highly recommend you check it out.</div>
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HTC went from offering all Sense 3.5 users free Dropbox storage to now allowing all Android phones the same luxury, something I’m sure no one will have any complaints about although it will now come pre-installed, but I’d never actually call it bloatware. As soon as we learn the full details from HTC we’ll be sure to update with the latest. Now go get Dropbox by clicking here.</div>
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HTC partners with Dropbox, offers all Android users 5GB free storage

Another win for Dropbox has just been announced today thanks to HTC. We knew something like this was coming ever since we heard Sense 3....

Daily iPad App: Elements 2

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Elements is one of many text editors available in the App Store. It supports Dropbox, Markdown and TextExpander which makes it popular among iOS users. It's available for the iPhone, iPod touch and the iPad, but the iPad version really shines as a text editor. Version 2 was just released and adds several notable features for editing and exporting documents.</div>
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The iPad version uses the entire screen and the large onscreen keyboard, which makes it easy to create a text document or markdown file from scratch or edit an existing one on the fly. I don't have a Bluetooth keyboard and was unable to test this functionality in the latest version of the app.</div>
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All documents can be uploaded to your Dropbox account and synced across devices. Even when you are offline, the file changes will be saved and uploaded when you connect. Elements uploads files to a default /Dropbox/Elements/ folder and you still can't change that location.</div>
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Variety is the spice of life and Elements has a bunch of export options that let you save your file as an HTML or PDF document. You can export the document to Tumblr, Facebook, Dropbox, Evernote, iTunes, and email.</div>
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The editor UI has also been tweaked with a new dealt font of Museo Sans, a new Markdown preview view and appearance settings that are now available from the within the app. Elements 2 also removed the ability to change the background color setting, a change that users of the earlier version may find annoying.</div>
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Elements is a very capable text editor for the writer or coder that uses their iPad regularly. It's a universal app available for US$4.99 from the App Store.</div>
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Daily iPad App: Elements 2

Elements is one of many text editors available in the App Store. It supports Dropbox, Markdown and TextExpander which makes it popular...

DropDAV: An easy way to link iWork for iPad and Dropbox

<img align="right" alt="" border="0" hspace="8" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.tuaw.com/media/2010/12/dropdavfilemovingco.jpg" vspace="8" />iWork for iPad is an incredibly powerful tool for folks who want to use their iPads as a MacBook Air surrogate. However, if they want to round-trip their documents through the popular Dropbox service, there hasn't been a way to save or open files from within Pages, Keynote, or Numbers for iPad. Until now, that is...<br />
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<a href="http://dropdav.com/">DropDAV</a> is a new service from smiles + laughs that provides a WebDAV front end to Dropbox. What that means is that any iPad or iPhone application that can open or save files through WebDAV can now link straight to Dropbox. Since iWork for iPad has always had WebDAV capabilities built-in, DropDAV provides the long-needed door between iWork and Dropbox.<br />
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To <a href="https://dropdav.com/signup.php">sign up for DropDAV</a>, you just need to have a Dropbox account. DropDAV provides a 14-day free trial; after that time, the cost of DropDAV is 30% of your Dropbox account price. If you have a 2 GB free account with Dropbox, your DropDAV service will be free. Hit the link below to see how it all works.<br />
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DropDAV: An easy way to link iWork for iPad and Dropbox

iWork for iPad is an incredibly powerful tool for folks who want to use their iPads as a MacBook Air surrogate. However, if they want to rou...

Unclutter your Dropbox (or any folder) with Cloak

<img align="right" alt="" border="0" height="256" hspace="8" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.tuaw.com/media/2010/12/cloak-256x-tjl.jpg" vspace="8" width="256" />The good thing about iOS text editors and other programs which can sync with Dropbox is that you don't have to use iTunes to back up the documents that you edit on your iPad or iPhone/iPod touch. The bad thing is that almost all of them save their files in a specific named folder in your Dropbox. This can lead to a lot of folders that you probably never use on your Mac, but end up looking at anytime you open your Dropbox.<br />
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OS X gives you a way to hide those folders, but it usually involves the use of a command line utility called SetFile, which isn't included with Mac OS X unless you also install the developer tools. That's where <a href="http://www.taoeffect.com/">Cloak</a> (free, <a href="http://www.taoeffect.com/cloak/Cloak.zip">611 KB .zip download</a>) comes in.<br />
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Cloak will let you hide or show any file, either by renaming the file to start with a period, or by setting the "Invisible" Finder Attribute. Renaming the file will cause problems with the aforementioned Dropbox syncing, so you want to use the Invisible Finder Attribute.<br />
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Unclutter your Dropbox (or any folder) with Cloak

The good thing about iOS text editors and other programs which can sync with Dropbox is that you don't have to use iTunes to back up the...

The best Mac applications I used in 2010

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As the end of 2010 approaches, I started looking back over the Mac applications that I used this year to see which ones stood out. They weren't necessarily released this year (although many were), but they were apps that helped me get stuff done in 2010. I didn't try to come up with some specific number or any other predefined criteria, I just took a good hard look at my Applications folder, menu bar and System Preferences. They are presented in no particular order.<br />
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<a href="http://dropbox.com/">Dropbox</a> reached 1.0 in 2010, and the milestone release included some <a href="http://blog.dropbox.com/?p=581">significant Mac-specific features</a> such as Extended Attribute Sync. This was also the first year that I exceeded the free space Dropbox provides, and paid for a 50 GB account. Thanks to the <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/referrals">referral program</a>, <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/edu">educational user referral bonus</a>, and <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/free">extra free space</a> programs that Dropbox offers, I have 83.4 GB of space in my "50 GB" account.<br />
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TUAW folks have written extensively about our love of Dropbox, but if you've somehow missed it: Dropbox is a folder on your computer which syncs (and therefore is "backed up" and version-managed) online, and which you can then sync to all of your other Mac, Windows, or Linux computers. (Want to know more? Check out the <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/tour/2#1">official Dropbox tour</a>.) Thanks to the API which the company <a href="http://blog.dropbox.com/?p=492">announced back in May</a>, many iOS developers have added Dropbox syncing as well, making 2010 a pretty significant year for Dropbox and its users. (Cost: 2 GB/free; $9.99/month or $99.00/year for 50 GB; or $19.99/month or $199.00/year for 100 GB.)<br />
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The best Mac applications I used in 2010

As the end of 2010 approaches, I started looking back over the Mac applications that I used this year to see which ones stoo...

Dropbox 1.0 available with performance enhancements, Selective Sync

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgM0huMnFkXygq8qLIf1uqComAywSG0N58clmfajYozrQk5cF5J9LdHmvDL45JKF8DIOg8g5mAZ_LaXiagiU3F_29HJNA0ec37AfEvQUNRtEsvYb3F4mVphJjRjR71fdNcyRRguikvVfsM/s1600/dropbox-logo-256x.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgM0huMnFkXygq8qLIf1uqComAywSG0N58clmfajYozrQk5cF5J9LdHmvDL45JKF8DIOg8g5mAZ_LaXiagiU3F_29HJNA0ec37AfEvQUNRtEsvYb3F4mVphJjRjR71fdNcyRRguikvVfsM/s1600/dropbox-logo-256x.jpg" /></a></div>Dropbox, the multi-platform file syncing application that frankly puts Apple's own iDisk to shame, has been updated to version 1.0. The application has been in public beta for over two years, and an iOS version of Dropbox came out about a year after the public beta began. <br /><P></P><br /><P>Dropbox reaching 1.0 is more than a numerical milestone for its developers. They've also made hundreds of bug fixes, reduced resource usage (memory usage in particular has been reduced by 50 percent), and made tweaks to the interface to make it more user-friendly. The most intriguing new feature is Selective Sync, which allows users to choose which of their Dropbox folders to sync to their devices, which the developers say will come in handy on netbooks or other devices with limited storage space.</P><br /><P>You can get Dropbox 1.0 here. If you're not already running Dropbox, now's the perfect time to give it a shot -- the program is so good that many people have wondered why Apple hasn't bought it yet and incorporated it into Mac OS X.</P>

Dropbox 1.0 available with performance enhancements, Selective Sync

Dropbox, the multi-platform file syncing application that frankly puts Apple's own iDisk to shame, has been updated to version 1.0. The ...