Recently, the computer lab I use at the school revoked the privilage of using flash drives (jump/USB drives) on their computers. Bummer.
Once again I found myself in a quandry. How oh how will I transport my electronic documents back and forth from home to school?
Possible Solutions
- Email the documents to myself. – What a pain!
- Print and retype my work. Yeah right.
- Buy a laptop. Ha ha!
- Burn CDs instead. I can’t burn at school.
- Use Dropbox. Bingo.
Dropbox describes itself as an easy way to share and store your files online. It automatically syncs the documents you want to back up/share when you make changes. And your documents are available any place you can find an internet connection. There’s nothing complicated about it.
For me, Dropbox is like a virtual floppy disk. I put the files I need in my Dropbox just like I would put them on a disk. And at school I just log in to my account, edit my documents as needed, then upload them to save them. *Voila*
If you’re interested… tell them Jenn sent you by following this link to GetDropBox.com (they give me more disk space if I refer people).
Hey, I don't want this picture. What gives?
4 Comments
I used Google Docs very succsefully for this when I was in school. Some bonuses for me were easy collaboration, versioning and a multitude of file formats. The only downside (which I think is an upside) is that there are fewer formatting options compared with a shrink-wrapped product like Micro$$$oft Office.
Why oh why did your school revoke this privelage?? I’ve used google docs, I love that you can do live updates! No downloading, editing then uploading again. That was the problem with our “dropbox” avaiable to us at school. It’s called “my webspace” and you can upload anything and share the file with anyone but couldn’t edit without downloading, major pisser. Do you have to download to edit? Man, I LOVE my flashdrive.
You should be a dropbox sales-women. I’m signing up.
The lab that I like (not the library – but a different computer lab) feels like viruses are too big of a threat to risk students infecting the computers via flash drive. Of course… I can easily infect the computer with the same document downloaded from some server. But they feel safe, and I’m no tech weenie.
I don’t have to download/upload on my home-computer. The file automatically updates when I hit the save button. But at school, I do have to download/upload.
I thought Google Docs was a web-based word processor? I don’t really need to collaborate – I just need a “disk.”