I mentioned a few weeks ago that I was getting impatient waiting for my Dropbox invite to arrive. Well I’m pleased to inform everyone that it has arrived! I was/am very excited, and have spent a fair bit of time today experimenting with it.
I’ll quickly go through what I think about it…
In short, it’s a really awesome system. It is fast, intuitive and it does its job very well. I have to congratulate the people behind it for making a really nice application which, though not yet totally polished or feature-complete, is already indispensable.
After install you can find a drop box sitting in your ‘My Documents’ folder. This is your portal to your online sync and storage system. Anything that you chuck into it is very elegantly sent to the Dropbox site and to any colleagues or friends who you have opted to share the data with.
The web interface is pretty good. I really, really like the ability to recall past revisions of a document. Did someone go and delete or mess up your content? No worries, Dropbox has a copy stored away online for you to revert to.
Right now the service is still in beta, but you get 10 invites to give away upon account approval.
So go request your own invite and hopefully yours will arrive a bit quicker than mine. I didn’t think that the reality could live up to the demo I watched ages ago, but it does a fantastic job of doing everything it said it does.
