DropBox (you should read this)

adam

I recently got in to the DropBox beta and have 9 remaining invites for anyone who'd like to use it.

http://www.getdropbox.com/home

It's awesome for anyone who wants to share files from home, work, or anywhere.

More importantly: It has a lot of practical uses for many of us here at Polycount:

• Instantly share images, no need for server space online
• Instantly create a portfolio if one is needed in a pinch, or if you want to show a batch of images quickly
• Unlimited storage & bandwidth
  • For the beta, its locked @ 2GB
• Revision control <--AWESOME
  • Awesome for us artists. Every time you SAVE a file, its copied on their servers and you can roll back to it at any point.
• Access your files from any computer, even those without it installed.
  • DropBox has an online interface that you can login from anywhere.

Here are some examples of things I've mentioned above, using files on my computer:


This image is on my computer, and I simply right clicked it, clicked on Dropbox, then clicked on "Copy public link". Voila!



And here's an example of making a portfolio in a pinch:
My portfolio!

So, who wants an account? Send me a PM with your email and you're in. They'll go to the first 9 people who PM me. However! Anyone who gets in a beta, including those I've invited, will also get 10 invites to send to people so really, anyone who wants in on this can.

The way the invites work is the first 9 people will share a folder with me called "Polycount". If you want to invite 10 more people yourself, make a NEW folder and share that folder with them, not the Polycount one. Make sense?

Once this is out of beta there will be a monthly fee for this, so it won't be free forever. But its definitely a service I think we can all use here.

ohnein

I'm pretty impressed with the desktop integration and revision control. Hopefully the fee won't be too high.

bounchfx

yeah I read about this a month or so ago and was super interested. I'll probably sign up if it's not too expensive and I use it enough. sounds super useful though, but we'll see how much use it actually gets for me

Tumerboy

Very Cool!

pliang

Sure, I can use the service...

FAT_CAP

Sounds interesting - if the speeds are up to much it might allow me to leave my pesky USB memory stick at home and just transfer my work between the office and home with this... the amount of work I have lost on those things over the years makes me cry just thinking about it

I'll grab an account if theres any still going?

hawken

offers nothing over .mac (even though he demos the beta of dropbox on a mac for the most part)

not to do a mac fanboy rant but I can sync my computers with .mac and it offers all of what they explain there, established for x years.

So yes, if I were a windows user I'd jump on it and hump the life out of it but I suggest mac users (all 3 of us!) to use .mac as it's VERY tightly integrated to mac osx

Justin Meisse

woah, that's some seriously fast loading times your images, adam.

It would be nice if I could have those tools for my website since I'm already paying for it.

Ozymandias

this makes me wish I hadn't just paid for another year of service on my site.

adam

FAT Cap if you want in, send it along. It's very fast, your files will be @ work before you.

hawken - does .mac do revision control? I didn't think it did, but if so thats awesome.

headengine

looks pretty awesome...!

bounchfx

isn't .mac 100 a year? I always wondered what all the features of it were but I'm too lazy to search.. stuff like how much storage does it offer, the price, etc.

because if DropBox holds more and is cheaper (not to mention revisions) it could still be something worth using for mac users. Especially if you can share a folder with a non-payer (can you share editable folders in .mac?)

also, I made some folders in the Polycount folder. Stuff like Inspiration and Tutorials where we can all contribute.

Since we all have 10 invites we can invite all the trusted members of PC that want in to the folder and have it as a big open database of files for us to use. you know, if anyone is interested.

East

This looks pretty sweet. If anyone's got any invites left I wouldn't mind one \o/

RustyFranks

seems pretty cool, but between box.net, gmail ftp, and godaddy's $4/mo plan i'm good

i only use box.net because of the firefox addon that keeps my bookmarks auto synced between about 4 computers ^^

adam

IMO Dropbox has 1-up on all those features. The ability for me to right click a file, copy a URL from the file, and paste it here without the hassle of uploading and using an FTP program, weighs a lot more than any other solution. Not to mention revision control.

FAT_CAP

PM sent Mr Brome - the ability to take advantage of works insane internet speeds and get the stuff home easily sounds like a win all round!

Robert Headley

Sure, I'll take an invite if anyone has one available.
RobertHeadley@gmail.com

adam

No more invites Enjoy it everyone

jeffcraighead

If anyone else has an invite they'd like to share, jeffcraighead@hotmail.com

Jeff Craighead
Doctoral Candidate
University of South Florida
www.splatsosoft.com

FAT_CAP

Not sure what happened with my PMs but it suddenly said that all my previously read PMS were unread and wouldn't let me check any new ones... after much deletion it seems that I've missed the boat on the invites.

If anybody with a spare invite could PM me I would be really grateful!

adam

Fat cap, I sent you one.

FAT_CAP

ThanksadamBrome - just signed up and starting to sync my folders up :-)

Does anybody know how much space you get with this thing by the way?

adam

2GB but I think its mutual amongst all of us. When it goes live, and you pay, the limit will be.. limitless. It just matters how much you can afford.

hawken

Well, heres one reason to use .mac

http://www.macrumors.com/2008/05/09/back-to-my-mac-used-to-catch-laptop-thieves/

Another would be the bookmark / calender / mail / dock syncing

But no it doesn't accommodate shared users on the same file repository or versioning of files. I don't know how long drop box can, as they are not google, but maybe they hope to be bought?

adam

Dropbox uses Amazon's S3 virtual drivespace so their capacity is limitless. The syncing is neat that .mac offers. While you can do that with third party apps for Firefox & Outlook, I prefer it when those abilities are centralized so .mac definitely has the one-up in that regard.

The reason I mentioned Dropbox here is because of revision control and the idea of people working together.