Dropbox : More then a File Sharing Servive

Yesterday, Kalpik Nigam @ #think-digit on irc.freenode.net invited me to use Dropbox.

I took a Tour available on the website, and i quite liked the Web Interface. I Quickly downloaded the software,Fortunately it was in the Arch AUR, So i only had to to yaourt nautilus-dropbox to install it ;) i had to install nautilus too, but as i had never installed gnome, i had to download 20MB of other dependencies too :( now, taking about the interface

It Merges COMPLETELY with nautilus, here are some screenies

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And this has something called Shared Folder, where the people you invite can collaboratively upload and edit file, Dropbox even saves snapshots of the file, which can be a large boon for the programmers

Take The Tour | Watch the Screencast | GetDropbox.com

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2 Responses to Dropbox : More then a File Sharing Servive

  1. Gapo says:

    Hi ! Gr8 to see another indian Arch afficiondo. Your site is really good.

    However while surfing I could see that you use Ratpoison – SO, how I’m reckoning you won’t be using something as bloated as nautilus as ur fm.

    So, how does Dropbox integrate in other fm like Thunar ??

  2. Mad says:

    Gapo, You’re completely true with your observations. currently i just use dropboxd (a daemon that does all the dirty work)
    you don’t even need to have a file manager, but you wont see things like which files have been updated and stuff.

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