Dropbox Drops On iPhone
4:09 am, September 30th, 2009, Giles Turnbull
Finally, the team at Dropbox have released a native iPhone app. And it’s pretty awesome.
For those of you unfamililar with Dropbox, allow me to explain the appeal: it’s the best system around for syncing and sharing files between computers and iPhones. It knocks Mobile Me into the shadows.
You get 2GB of storage space for free, and can pay a monthly fee if you need more.
What’s really fantastic about Dropbox is the way it integrates with your file system. Your Dropbox is a folder just like any other folder; simply putting a file inside it is all you need do. That file will be synced to your online Dropbox account, which you can access through a browser or directly from any other computer that you’ve linked to the same account.
The browser access means that Dropbox users have been able to reach their stuff via their iPhones for some time now, but the launch of the official Dropbox app adds some cool new features; you can take a photo or video clip and upload them directly to your Dropbox account. Put them in the Shared folder and they’re instantly available to people you’ve granted Sharing privileges to. I like the way the photos are renamed with a time and date stamp, and not just left with the “Photo.jpg” filenames created by the iPhone’s camera app.
There’s lots of discussion about this on the Dropbox forums, with some inevitable complaints from people asking why there aren’t more features, and why the app requires iPhone OS 3.1 (apparently because there’s a crucial bit of code is missing in 3.0.1); but on the whole the reception has been very positive. Dropbox users, like Mac users, tend to be somewhat evangelical.
If you’re running Snow Leopard, you might have noticed some oddness while running the official Dropbox release; download the latest beta to fix that. You might be interested in this upload-to-Dropbox Service that makes adding new files even easier.
Posted by Giles Turnbull in News, Reviews, Software | Comment on this article
Great news, can’t live without Dropbox
Hal, on September 30th, 2009 at 5:31 am
Dropbox has a referred scheme where, if a new subscribed creates an account in response to an invitation from an existing Dropbox user, BOTH of them get an extra 250MB of storage.
Here’s my link to my invitation page. It is on Dropbox’s website, not some weird site.
https://www.getdropbox.com/referrals/NTE4NjQ3NzM5
If you sign up from here, I get an extra 250MB and so do you.
Each user can only offer a limited number of invitations, so after a while — after the maximum number of invitations have been used up, the offer will not apply anymore.
JJJ, on September 30th, 2009 at 7:37 am
This is so cool! I love dropbox and I use it everyday! I am very glad it came to the iPhone. Brilliant piece of software.
Chris, on September 30th, 2009 at 9:09 am
3.1 required=Fail
nsfw, on September 30th, 2009 at 9:50 am
This is for 3.1 (or later) only. But, it is definitely worth to switch to 3.1 if necessary only to get Dropbox working. It is really an excellent app. Congratulations to the Dropbox team!
If you would like to create a new account and get a bonus of 250 MB to the regular 2 GB please click on the following link (hurry, I have only a few bonuses left): https://www.getdropbox.com/referrals/NTY3NTUxMjk
DennisKr, on September 30th, 2009 at 10:48 am
I also have a few referral spots:
https://www.getdropbox.com/referrals/NTIyMTY0NTk5
Andy, on September 30th, 2009 at 4:38 pm
I love using Dropbox for backing up assignments while working on them. This has saved me hours and sometimes days worth of work.
I’ve got a few referral spots left so if you would like to create a new account and get a bonus of 250 MB to the regular 2 GB please click on the following link:
https://www.getdropbox.com/referrals/NTEzODE5NzE5
NoranRadd, on October 1st, 2009 at 2:12 am
Further to my comment No. 1 above, all the referrals from that one are finished.
Try this one instead:
https://www.getdropbox.com/referrals/NTE4NjQ4Mjk5
JJJ, on October 1st, 2009 at 3:10 pm