Backup and Sync! DropBox

Its holiday time and you got a lot of really funny, embarrassing, and precious photos. You need someplace to put them and you want them in several places all at once. Not only that, you want to share them with other people so they can see them too. You could use facebook to put them up but the photos aren't as high quality as you want them. Not only that, you want to backup other types of files and sync them across several computers.

What you really want to use is something like DropBox. Personally, I haven't used dropbox much but I haven't had any problem with them either. They do a great job of making sure all my files are on each of my computers and they're all the same. Being in a small dorm room, I can't backup my files on my desktop since its back at home. I don't exactly trust my laptop hard drive a whole lot. With dropbox though, I can just tell it to sync such and such folder and it'll upload the files onto their servers and push them onto my desktop at home (assuming my parents don't turn it off). That way, even if my laptop dies (heaven forbid), I'm safe from losing lots of sacred files.

There is one thing that holds a lot of people back from stuff like this though.... complications. Nobody really wants to have to actively tell the program, "okay, now do this, do that..." Just so you know, you don't need to do this: dropbox works in the background so you don't have to. You just have to make sure you hit the save button in your document and to make sure you let dropbox handle that folder.