Monday, October 6, 2008

Online Storage AND SYNCING

After creating my own system for syncing my documents to Amazon s3 (using the great s3cmd (python version) and optionally git) I happened upon a nice alternative.
- For me, I don't use it because what I have works great and I get some sick satisfaction from paying people for the services they give me.
- But I get even more satisfaction from not paying a lot.
- My last month bill for Amazon S3 was 20 cents. :-)

Anyway, the nice alternative is dropbox.
- http://www.getdropbox.com
- First 2 GB free
- Automatically!, and quickly, syncs anything you put in the dropbox folder on your computer to all the computers on which you have dropbox installed!
- Made with Python (I snooped under the hood a little to find this out) which is a plus in my book, not because I can change the code (they didn't include the source, and yes I know you can reverse engineer python optcodes, but I don't want to and it is probably against their terms of service), but because this frees them up to develop new features and fix bugs very quickly.
- Highly recommended!!!

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