3/15/2023 0 Comments Video spotdox![]() Many developers complain about iCloud, Apple’s syncing service. For users, iCloud is flaky and confusing. Google Drive is too tightly integrated with online document editing for me, and rather creepily sucked down documents from my Gmail, which crossed a line. Microsoft has Skydrive, which put most people off by its byzantine complexity (something Windows users must demand). None of these options are as easy, polite and restrained as Dropbox. There’s a reason why everyone has Dropbox. One limitation of Dropbox is that for the free version, you cannot go above roughly 6 Gb. If all you ever do is write text files and the odd spreadsheet, then it’s a lot of space. But “Pro” users have video, images, large data files and presentations that quickly fill this space. Often bundles of files (like Keynote presentations, or datasets) can be hundreds of megabytes. I don’t feel like a pro, but I know that I demand more than a casual user. However, Spotdox, a Dropbox app which lets you see your entire hard drive for any linked computer and remotely push files from it into Dropbox, gets around this limitation nicely. I was able to see the desktop of my office machine in Berlin from a web browser in New York last weekend. I’m so far out of Windows that I really know almost nothing about it. I try to keep up to date with what they’ve got going on so I occasionally read Paul Thurrott’s Supersite for Windows. I find this approach much less painful than trying to find information on the Microsoft website, or actually using Windows. The site isn’t always balanced, and on occasion borders on the comic because it is so blinkered. It’s well written and fulfils it’s primary role – as a resource for Windows users – admirably. In principle, this product could be a killer for Microsoft – integration into the operating system could be seamless and deep. I found myself wishing that Apple would develop an integrated solution, rather than the ephemeral iCloud. ![]() ![]() But O365SDP has a 7Gb limit, with no option to pay for more! Like the free version of Dropbox. But we are talking about a “pro” product, not a free option. ![]()
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