‘Two step verification’ is a really useful feature for securing your online accounts, which adds an improved verification process to protect your account from unauthorized use. Dropbox recently introduced two step verification to help its users secure their data. This post will show you how to →
Three great solutions to collaborate online: Dropmark, Online Support Tools, and Fullsync
We keep saying things like, “The world is smaller now,” and “The shortest distance between two places is now a byte’” and when it comes to business these days we are just as likely to be working with someone two states or continents away as we →
Collaborate on projects and keep documents and code in sync with QikPad
Working together with someone else can be rewarding, certainly, but it can also have its challenges, especially in the modern world where we don’t all live next door to each other. QikPad is a handy online program that will let you collaborate on projects, letters, code, →
Bitcasa offers unlimited FREE cloud storage during its beta launch
Does a Dropbox-style cloud storage service with unlimited free storage sound too good to be true? It probably is, since newcomer Bitcasa is only offering this during its beta period (which happens to be right now). But this may be the shape of things to come, →
Upload and share large files for free with SkyFile
SkyFile is an absolutely awesome web site that will let you have your own file bank in the cloud for free. It is a ‘file locker’ service for downloading and sharing large files, and not a desktop syncing solution like Dropbox. The free version provides 5 GB →
Use an FTP folder as your very own, Dropbox-like backup service with FTPBox
Do you have access to FTP storage? Most hosted website come with many gigabytes of free space that stay mostly unused forever, that could easily be utilized for backup purposes. Even if you do not have access to an FTP server, you could sign up for →
How to run two Dropbox instances on the same PC
Why would you want to run multiple Dropbox instances on the same machine? We could think of two reasons (1) you’ve maxed out on the 16 gigs or so that each free Dropbox account can give you as a ceiling, and would like to use another account →
A comparison of FREE Cloud Storage Services
Now that the biggest tech companies in the world are taking aim at Dropbox (with Microsoft, Apple, and Amazon all offering their own cloud storage services), we thought we would compare the FREE cloud storage plans that are out there, in terms of how much free →
Save interesting articles for later reading on your PC, iOS, or Android device, with ‘Pocket’
If I told you that ‘Pocket’ is the bookmarking service ‘Read it Later’, relabeled and relaunched, would you lose interest in this article? You shouldn’t, because with Pocket not only are the articles that you save bookmarked in the cloud in ‘Read it Later’ or ‘Instapaper’ →
How much free cloud storage space do you really need? — SkyDrive’s 7 gig free plan examined
Do you have a free Dropbox or other cloud storage account? If so, how much of your free space do you actually use? According to the guys at Microsoft Skydrive, 99.94% of users who have had access to 25 gigs of free space only ACTUALLY use up to →
Convert 2D images into 3D objects with ‘AutoDesk 123D Catch’
If you’ve ever wanted to model an actual physical object in 3D then this software may be extremely useful to you. AutoDesk 123D Catch is free software that can process a group of photographs taken of an object, digitally model it in 3D, and then export →
CloudDeck: just may be the mother of all SoundCloud desktop clients
If you’ve been following this blog, you may have noticed that we’ve been covering SoundCloud related apps quite a bit (e.g. our mention of Scup, the SoundCloud desktop uploader, and Cloud Player, which is exactly what it sounds like). We continue the tradition with CloudDeck, a →
