Dropbox Website Redesigned – Adds Action Bar, Photo Viewer, Drag-and-Drop and More

Dropbox website undergone major design changes with the addition of action bar, photo viewer and new drag and drop and many other features. Anyone who signs into dropbox.com will see a simpler, more powerful, and more beautiful web experience.

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A focus on the stuff you care about: Dropbox has slm down its website and focus on the star of the page: your stuff. Dropbox have put all the tools you need at your fingertips, but only when you need them. The new action bar at the top of the screen does it all. Think of it as a multi-tool that adjusts to your needs. You can use it to sort your files by name, date, size, and type. Or, if you select a file or folder, the bar will change to let you perform a variety of actions on your selection. A new right-click menu includes these actions as well.

Better photos experience: Dropbox have built in a simple and gorgeous photo viewer that lets you use your entire screen to view your pictures or videos. Dropbox also added thumbnails for image and video files (Photoshop and Illustrator too!) so you can get a preview of your stuff without needing to open or download it. This way, you’ll always know what IMG1234.JPG or view1.PSD actually looks like, and which video to share with grandma.

Faster, happier, more productive: It’s way faster and easier to get stuff done using the new site. New drag-and-drop makes moving stuff as easy as on your desktop. Dropbox have also replaced the checkboxes on the page with better multiple file selection (click-dragging works!). And for all you power users out there, dropbox have added keyboard shortcuts to make mouseless browsing a breeze — just hit ‘?’ for a full list. The newely leveled up Dropbox search, not only does it live right in the file browser, but it also instantly fetches results as you type.

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How To Turn Google Account Into Dropbox Using Insync

We have used the service of Dropbox but have we ever imagined about making our google account into DropBox? Here is the simplest way by using Insync service you can turn your Google account into DropBox. It basically sync your data across different devices, and access it from everywhere at anytime. Somehow there is one big difference which lets you sync up docs. You can use it as DropBox and it doesn’t let you store and sync up any kind of file formats.

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Insync is available with a support for multiple Google accounts at the same time. If you use any account for your personal use and the one you use for your official can become one and all the same, and the docs you keep in each be shared and edited without having to switch from one account to the other. Here it eases the accessibility.

Insync gets your docs shared and edited in all the ways that you could think of. You can be authorized as a  person you want to access your files, and give them re-sharing permissions in turn. Moreover it offers you to do that from all the computers and devices that you use to access the Internet online.

Click here to Download Insync 

Some of the features :

• read/write + read-only sharing permissions
• nested sharing
• share recipients are not charged against their storage quota
• re-sharing permissions
• individual file sharing

Hope this service would enable you to use the dropbox with your existing Google account.

How To Backup Your Files With Dropbox Automatically

Dropbox has been a great help to store files very efficiently. Normally the account for Dropbox offers 2 GB of free online storage space which can be increased by using social networks and by referral service of Dropbox i.e. inviting friends who are not using Dropbox.

The Dropbox can't store your entire hard disk content but it can store your essential documents, photos, files, codes etc.

How to use Dropbox for backup of files

It is very much easy to backup your files to Dropbox. But before sending to cloud the files need to be stored inside the Dropbox folder. Once the files are stored inside the folder then they are ready to be transferred to cloud. 

There are some tools which can be used to sync and from those applications Microsoft SyncToy is a popular and free application that keeps files and folders in sync with each other. The files under Dropbox folder and the uploaded ones should be on sync. One of the mostly used tool is SyncToy.

Now below are the steps by step process to Backup with Dropbox :

1. Open SyncToy and create a new folder pair. After creating the pair, set the action as ‘synchronize.’

2. Need to follow the same step 1 for every folder in case you want to back up using Dropbox.

3. Now go to Windows Run box and run taskschd.msc. It will start Task Scheduler.

4.  In Task Scheduler, you can create a basic task and give it a name like ‘Backup’. Now set as Daily (run backup once per day) and choose a time when you want to take backup. It will be the time when you are little bit free or you are having lunch.

5. Within Action you need to choose “Start a Program” and set the program name as SyncToyCmd.exe. If you want to pass arguments then use “-R” without quotes and save the task.

We are done. SyncToy will trigger everyday at the set time and will put all the new and updated files into Dropbox. Then Dropbox will automatically copy your files which are into Dropbox to the cloud. And now you can access your data from anywhere and anytime.

How To Use Dropbox With A Domain

If you have a dropbox account that should have a “Public” folder which is used to store documents, images, clips, movies or any other important files you wish to share.

How to create a personalized Dropbox URL ?

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Here in the below example, we can see that there is one user ID and that would be common for that account holder/user. With this ID we can map any specific location or domain name. It can be found in the download link itself which will promote itself.

In this pattern the Dropbox name looks small and easy to remember.

Mapping Dropbox to the domain

1. For hosting your own domain with Apache service, follow the below steps :Open cPanel and setup a new sub-domain like - e.g. files.poketors.com. It will create a directory with the same name.

Now get into the server and create a new file called .htaccess in the above directory. Here you need to replace XXX with your Dropbox ID.

1: <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>

2: RewriteEngine on

3: RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://dl.dropbox.com/u/XXX/$1 [L,QSA]

4: </IfModule>

We have done. You can share your Dropbox URL but before that you must replace dl.dropbox.com/u/ID with your web address like, files.poketors.com and people will be able to download your files as before.

2. In case no web host is there and you are using Google App Engine to have custom Dropbox URLs then follow the below steps.

You can download the source code from code.google.com and make the following changes in the code.

- You should replace XXX in mirror.py with your Dropbox user number.

- You should replace APPNAME in appl.yaml with some unique name.

In case you want to deploy the above through the Google App Engine launcher. Then you can opt for that too.

3. In case you have a configured domain with Google Apps, you may use your Dropbox redirection app on that domain otherwise your Dropbox URLs will look like appname.appspot.com and it will be without your Dropbox ID.

You have an option to use CNAME addresses to map Dropbox URLs to any sub-domain.

How To Use Dropbox

The following video clip will help you understand that how you can use Dropbox to share your files and access them from anywhere whenever required.

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Those people who don't know about it so here is the short description - Dropbox is only file storage and syncing service that enables users to store and share files and folders on the Windows, Mac and Linux computers. It has various mobile apps for Aplle's iPhones/iPads, Windows Mobile and Android Gadgets.

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Hope the video helped you in learning the way to use Dropbox.