Online Storage Help

[SimonMac]

You can access your hotel wifi from the client site? Impressive. Is it nextdoor?

Funny you should say that, at an old gig I worked at I could access the office WiFi from the Pub next door, not that I ever tried!

[TimberWolf]

This is a neat product, which also provides a glimpse into a cloudy future. My first real contact with cloudiness too I think, aside from Google docs.

The following discovery may be old hat to some, but I dropped some files into my dropbox, and as it happened some of these were HTML files containing scripts. These ran from dropbox! Well, some of them anyway - they were old examples. So it is possible to program for the iPod/pad after all, without spending a year reading Apple documentation, buying a Mac, jumping through hoops, being owned by Apple and handing over some money as well as royalties. Just write scripts, for personal programming use. There's a dropbox text editor too, so maybe there's a way of programming directly on the iPod without having to use something like dropbox to get them there. I've not tried that yet.

[TheFaQQer]

You can access your hotel wifi from the client site? Impressive. Is it nextdoor?

Project a mate of ine is managing - they were so short of space on client site that they had contractors next door in their hotel rooms connected to client wifi. Don't see why it should be any different the other way round.

[TimberWolf]

This is a neat product, which also provides a glimpse into a cloudy future. My first real contact with cloudiness too I think, aside from Google docs.

The following discovery may be old hat to some, but I dropped some files into my dropbox, and as it happened some of these were HTML files containing scripts. These ran from dropbox! Well, some of them anyway - they were old examples. So it is possible to program for the iPod/pad after all, without spending a year reading Apple documentation, buying a Mac, jumping through hoops, being owned by Apple and handing over some money as well as royalties. Just write scripts, for personal programming use. There's a dropbox text editor too, so maybe there's a way of programming directly on the iPod without having to use something like dropbox to get them there. I've not tried that yet.

Just to update on that. I downloaded a free App called PlainText (there are better paid-for ones) that allows editing of HTML files. It doesn't integrate with Droptext as nicely as I'd hoped (I was hoping it would show up in the list of Apps Dropbox recognises), but Plaintext uses dropBox to do the cloud stuff. So PlainText sees DropBox, but DropBox doest see PlainText, unless I've missed a setting. Anyway, I can edit HTML files in Plaintext, open Dropbox and run the created/edited HTML script from DropBox. Bit of a PITA writing programs on the iPod, but you never know it might be handy.

[Churchill]

Just to update on that. I downloaded a free App called PlainText (there are better paid-for ones) that allows editing of HTML files. It doesn't integrate with Droptext as nicely as I'd hoped (I was hoping it would show up in the list of Apps Dropbox recognises), but Plaintext uses dropBox to do the cloud stuff. So PlainText sees DropBox, but DropBox doest see PlainText, unless I've missed a setting. Anyway, I can edit HTML files in Plaintext, open Dropbox and run the created/edited HTML script from DropBox. Bit of a PITA writing programs on the iPod, but you never know it might be handy.

Tips like that are worth remembering. Thanks.

Perhaps this can be moved to "Technical"?

[Sysman]

Assuming you're not plugging your laptop into their network...

It's all a bit of a grey area these days what with new fangled cloud based collaboration and hosting solutions anyway.

I've come across various articles discussing this over the last year or two. The discussions used to be "How do we keep mobile devices off our system?" and now are moving towards "How do we integrate mobile devices into our system".

[Sysman]

This is a neat product, which also provides a glimpse into a cloudy future. My first real contact with cloudiness too I think, aside from Google docs.

The following discovery may be old hat to some, but I dropped some files into my dropbox, and as it happened some of these were HTML files containing scripts. These ran from dropbox! Well, some of them anyway - they were old examples. So it is possible to program for the iPod/pad after all, without spending a year reading Apple documentation, buying a Mac, jumping through hoops, being owned by Apple and handing over some money as well as royalties. Just write scripts, for personal programming use. There's a dropbox text editor too, so maybe there's a way of programming directly on the iPod without having to use something like dropbox to get them there. I've not tried that yet.

I only discovered Dropbox a couple of months ago, and my first use of it was to get things like setup scripts installed onto new (mostly virtual) systems. Easier than mucking around with USB sticks (especially for virtual machines), and scripts to setup the network and shares rather than doing it manually.

And here's a chap who uses Dropbox for the entire contents of his web documents directory.

[Incognito]

it has no monetary value to me, it just give me extra storage space.

It may have no monetary value to you, but it does to dropbox. They offer the 2GB package as a taster to what they offer, the whole business revolves around people/businesses purchasing larger storage packages from them, not circumventing their business model.

If you like it so much, why not sign up to the larger package and help keep them in business? It only works out to £5 a month. Two pints a month and you get to feel good that you're encouraging innovation like this.

[Mr.Whippy]

It may have no monetary value to you, but it does to dropbox. They offer the 2GB package as a taster to what they offer, the whole business revolves around people/businesses purchasing larger storage packages from them, not circumventing their business model.

This is something dropbox encourages users to do, so they get more users who may get the paid for service. It's hardly "circumventing their business model", you're a little OTT with that statement imo.

If you like it so much, why not sign up to the larger package and help keep them in business? It only works out to £5 a month. Two pints a month and you get to feel good that you're encouraging innovation like this.

Totally agree, it's peanuts for what is such a handy and useful service.

I sync pretty much everything to my dropbox and when BitLocker decided that it wouldn't unlock my drives without the recovery key I went to get it from my dropbox.... however something had changed and I'd forgotten to sync the latest key... so I had to rebuild the entire laptop, which consisted of clonezilla to restore the OS and apps and then dropbox to pull down all my files... simples, back up and running in record time... well worth the cost.

[SimonMac]

Quick bump to say thank you to all those who signed up, and a boo/hiss those who signed up but didn't install the app so no referral bonus lol