How to Use Dropbox – The Best Free File Storage Service


If you are new, 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’s insanely useful for swapping files with friends and colleagues, or backing up your important stuff and accessing it from any computer or mobile device.If you’re not using it yet, you should be.

If you have a smartphone, you should also download the Dropbox app for iPhoneAndroid, or BlackBerry. These apps will let you view your documents and upload documents with your phone. Dropbox gives you 2 GB of storage for free, but if you need more space you can get up to 100 GB for $19.99 per month

This simple video tutorial describes how you can use Dropbox to share your files and access them from anywhere.

Alternatives to Dropbox include Amazon Cloud DriveAVG LiveKive,  Sugarsync or IDrive Basic which provides 5GB of online storages to backup for your files.

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  1. Sumanth Kumar

    May 14. 2011

    dropbox is the best service for me..we get upto 8 GB of online space for free and the feature i like most is its background sync.it is awesome even if we change the contents while we are offline it sync when we com online..
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  2. Annamalai

    Jan 30. 2012

    Till today i don’t about drop box,i saw your post started to use it, thank you for such an useful article.

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