Dropbox lacks the built-in functionality required to synchronize folders present outside the Dropbox directory on your computer. You can, however, move any folders that you want to synchronize into ...

Remember Dropbox, the service that lets you back up files, share them with others, and sync them with other PCs? It's no longer an invitation-only beta: Now anyone can sign up. After installing the ...

Storing your content in the cloud helps you to free up space on your computer and phone without having to worry about losing information if your device is damaged or lost. Among cloud storage services ...

Before Dropbox became popular, there was iDisk, which was Apple’s cloud storage system. iDisk allowed you to store documents, pictures, QuickTime files, and PDFs in one cloud-based “drive.” This was ...

Dropbox and iCloud are two of many options available to Macintosh users to store their files online. Though iCloud is integrated directly with all Apple products, users may prefer Dropbox as it has ...

Dropbox has upgraded the infrastructure behind how users automatically upload and sync content from the Dropbox desktop client, a process now dubbed as Streaming Sync. With Streaming Sync, Dropbox ...

Dropbox is one of our favorite pieces of software here at ProfHacker. Recently I described how to use Dropbox to back up essential files. A reader then wrote in to ask about potential legal problems ...

There are basically two kinds of people who want to write things in plain text files: those who have to deal with weird, intractable cross-platform formatting issues, and those who just like the ...

Thanks to a new agreement between Microsoft and Dropbox, mobile users can now edit documents stored on Dropbox through one of Microsoft's mobile apps. Lance Whitney is a freelance technology writer ...