5 more ways to use Dropbox
Technologies / / December 19, 2019
there is a great many ways to use Dropbox. This service is only nominally intended for backup and card sharing files. However, users are finding more and more uses for Dropbox. Here are five new life hacking, which you may not yet know.
Save chat history
Many messengers allow the user to select which folder to store message history. For example, Pidgin or Digsby. As such, you can select a folder Dropbox and sync your chat logs from all computers for which you work.
Also, since you can save Facebook-chat and Google Talk story. However, for this it is necessary to make some effort.
Save games
Almost all of the games also allow you to select a folder to save progress. Why not put your "saves" in Dropbox? Then you can continue the game from any computer on which the desired game.
documents folder
Constantly working on what some documents? Make «Documents» folder in Dropbox and save documents there. You can edit them at home, at work or on the road. By the way, if you work as a team, it's a great way to keep track of group work on the document.
Group work with files
If you have employees, or a whole team that works remotely, the Dropbox help in working together.
For example, someone copied to Dropbox video to a corporate blog. The following staff has been edited by him as soon as Dropbox synchronized. Then, anyone can send in a couple of clicks the video on Youtube. There is only one question that does not apply to Dropbox: where to get such a disciplined employees?
Automatic search folder
Some applications such as uTorrent or Transmission can perform an automatic search for a particular folder. If you make a Dropbox folder, then any torrent file you put there, start the client and the download begins.
The same principle can be used to synchronize changes in editing images in Photoshop or Lightroom.