Thursday 22 September 2011

Extra Thing 9 (missed in week 5) : dropping the box

I realised I had missed out this thing back from week 5.  Mainly as I was not on my usual computer and you have to install a program.  I have now done this and copied a file into my dropbox account.

I find myself a bit ambivalent about this thing. I did all the installation and I dropped a file in and I opened it again on another computer but all the time I was thinking - I could have done about 5 in google docs by now.  This is one of those things which I think I would find more useful in a home setting than at work. At work all my files are backed up on a network and I have access from any pc that I login to.  We also have shared file areas where all staff are able to access and edit files.  At home I am notoriously bad at backing up my files and so this may be a solution as I find google docs easier if the file is created within it, but if I already have a file I might want to dropbox it to maintain the format.


As for sharing files via dropbox, I don't see it as being that useful.  In order to share it you need to have friends who also use dropbox, so I would favour google docs which anyone may view.  Perhaps we all need to have online profiles that list all the sites we are registered with so people know whether they can share things via that site!  The profileration of sites that do similar things just seem to make life more complicated rather than simpler.  Apologies for twee photo - I am not a cat person but it seemed appropriate.

Now I really have finisehd all the extra things - time to celebrate...

1 comment:

  1. I'm not usually a Lolcatz fan, but that one is pretty appropriate!

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