Dropbox

Dropbox is a pretty awesome site. A friend of mine sent me an invite the other day, which was awesome, because we've been trying to get into the beta for a few weeks now.You are given server space to store files, but the interface is all within a normal file browsing window on your computer. So, in other words, their server associates with a folder on your computer and mirrors it live. So, if you make a change to a file the server is updated accordingly. It is very efficient at doing this, making the process very seamless.

If you have ever used SVN before it is very similar to that, only that in this case you don't have to commit changes every time you make them. Committing changes to the server is all automatic now, and the little "updated" and "updating" and "not updated" icons are very similar to what most SVN systems use.

This would be great to use for a lot of coding projects, but the site talks about using it for other common things like sharing common photos and documents with other Dropbox users. Right now I've started using it to have a common folder between a few of my commonly used computers, like my computer at home and my computer at work. And, the sweet thing about this is that I use both Macs and PCs, and Dropbox currently supports both OS's. No more hassle with folder sharing! Plus, my files are all saved remotely, providing a nice little backup bonus to the process. So, this will be a sweet app for those who use Mac and Windows.

Check out a video of Dropbox in action:



Sign up for the beta at http://www.getdropbox.com/.