doug reich
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This seems like a real life-saver -- Dropbox. It continually backs up & mirrors your files, as well as providing versioning, sharing, and a web interface for remote access. If you have two computers and you ever say "Darn, the files are on the other one," I definitely recommend it. Even if you have only one machine that you use, it's still darn handy, as it backs up (ever had a computer crash on you? Yeah... back up your files) and makes immediately available all your documents wherever you are. I just set it up yesterday, and I'm already quite pleased with it.
EDIT: Apparently you can also use their software for collaboration: two people have different accounts, but their content overlaps on one subfolder.
My caveats: I would NOT recommend it for writing code, though; you will want to use subversion or the like so you can branch, merge and edit conflicts from collaborators. Also, if you are concerned about the security of your files, it's a no-brainer that you should stay away from it. Probably overkill if you have a lot of files, e.g. music or other media files, that don't really change and take up a lot of space, and you're just looking for a backup solution.
There's even Windows, Mac, Linux versions. Has anyone else tried this out?
EDIT: Apparently you can also use their software for collaboration: two people have different accounts, but their content overlaps on one subfolder.
My caveats: I would NOT recommend it for writing code, though; you will want to use subversion or the like so you can branch, merge and edit conflicts from collaborators. Also, if you are concerned about the security of your files, it's a no-brainer that you should stay away from it. Probably overkill if you have a lot of files, e.g. music or other media files, that don't really change and take up a lot of space, and you're just looking for a backup solution.
There's even Windows, Mac, Linux versions. Has anyone else tried this out?