Thanks to a classmate sharing the online tool of Dropbox, it is the most amazing tool I have ever used. It synchronizing not only the computer and cyber room, but makes me feel finally technology is not technical anymore and makes life really beautiful.
I will never be afraid of losing my files if my computer crashes to the ground (oops). Either will I panic if I forgot to bring my hard drive to print some important files to show the students. One simple click will help me find the doc. The virtual storage room provides us a feeling of warmth, that the computer and online platform get finally synchronized and great thing is I can download the app to different computers and the lovely folders keep in every computer connected with me. This is real the seamless interface of offline and online work. No copy, no paste, no drag, no new duplicate and confounding folders. If it has to point one little dislike, it is I can't edit the document online. If it happens in the computers in our library where doesn't allow us to store anything under the local disk, we have to pull out the USB again.
Google Doc:
Google really does a lot of good to us. They created online docs so we can edit document online. However, possibly it dominates the market for too long and has a large market shares, they even change the format of my docs which I carefully formatted before uploading.
Comparison of Dropbox and Google Docs:
Doc Friendly | Choice of Doc | Online editing | Synching | |
Dropbox | ★ keep the original format | ★ any document | ☆ | ★online, multiple computer platforms and real time |
Google Docs | ☆ Change to Google Format | ☆ Word, excel, spreadsheet, ppt, drawing, form | ★ | ☆ Have to upload manually |
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