Dropbox was founded in 2007 by Drew Houston and Arash Ferdowsi. Frustrated by working from multiple computers, drew was inspired to create a service that would let people bring all their files anywhere, with no need to email it in attachments or having it in an external storage device. Drew created an demo of drop box and showed it to fellow MIT student Arash Ferdowsi, who dropped out with only one semester left to help make Dropbox a reality, and shortly thereafter secured seed funding from Y Combinator. Dropbox was officially launched at 2008’s TechCrunh50, an annual technology conference.
Dropbox use cloud computing to enable users to store and share files and folders with others across internet using file synchronization.
In Dropbox, there are both free and paid services, each with varying options. In comparison with similar services, Dropbox offers a relatively large number of user clients across variety of desktop and mobile operating systems. There are a total of 10 clients, including Versions from Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux (Official and Unofficially), as well as versions for mobile devices, such as android, Windows Phone 7, iPhone, iPad and BlackBerry, and web based slient for when no local clients is installed. Dropbox uses the freemium financial model and its free service provides 2 GB of free online storage. Users who refer Dropbox to other clients can gain up to 8 GB of free storage space.
To conserve bandwidth and time, if a file in a user’s Dropbox folder is changed, Dropbox only uploads the pieces of that file that are changed when syncing. Though the desktop client has no restriction on individual file size, files uploaded via the website are limited to a maximum of 300 MB per file. To prevent free users (who get 2 GB of free storage) from creating multiple free accounts, Dropbox includes the content of the shared folders when totaling the amount of space used on the account.
There are a large number of official and unofficial Dropbox add-ons that are available, mostly created by the Dropbox community. These add-ons are both form of web services such as sendToDropbox, and desktop application such as ManDropAny. There is also a web service and browser extensions called cloudHQ for Dropbox which allow Dropbox users to synchronize Google docs with files in Dropbox storage and also to edit Dropbox documents in browser.
As a frequent user of Dropbox in everyday work, I get to have all my needed documents and stuff anywhere and whenever I want. Dropbox is a safe and secure way to share and to move with your important documents. To date I’ve got a free storage space of more than 6 GB in my Dropbox.
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