Dropbox.

[R.]

I saw this a few months ago and now that its term paper time at school I signed up. Its amazing.

Basically you install this, it puts a folder on your PC and you can install it on as many PC's as you like (MAC Windows Linux).

It keeps the folders sync'd over the Internet(you dont even have to click and tell it to) and you can download/upload from their website so you pretty much have your files ANYWHERE with an Internet connection and when you get home the file will have all the changes you made to it.

There is a free plan that gives you 2Gigs of storage and you can earn more by doing stupid things like downloading their desktop client or clicking through a tutorial.
Check it out at https://www.dropbox.com/

Oh one more thing that is awesome about this, if you have a huge zip file that is too big to email, you just have to drag it to a "Public" folder in your Dropbox folder and you can right click it and get a URL to send in a email.

Hope you get as much use out of it as I do.

[Kompresshun]

Yeah we use it at work for current projects we're working on sometimes. It's nice for small files that we need to get to regularly but I forget about using it most of the time. There's a couple of other ones out there but DropBox is the best free one i've used so far.

[Razi]

I haz dropbox.
It's pretty useful.

[SHIFT_COUPE]

Dropbox is the awesome.

[initial_jc]

word DROPBOX is very useful

[IanS]

Seems like a neat idea, but there is no way I am allowing an internet based program unbridled access to my hard drive.

[dre1507]

Seems like a neat idea, but there is no way I am allowing an internet based program unbridled access to my hard drive.

I'm with you on this one. Nothing in particular to hide, but the internet is a scary place. It's nice to make sure there's a limit to how much access the internet has to you konpyuutaa.

[SHIFT_COUPE]

Seems like a neat idea, but there is no way I am allowing an internet based program unbridled access to my hard drive.

The application does not access your entire hard drive. The dropbox application is simply a folder that is synced. Only what is in that folder will be available to dropbox.

[The Siath]

I've used it for about 2 years now, I like it - you set who can access which file within Dropbox, and can have multiple files available to multiple people while having set files for only one to access. Lots of options.

[Red coupe]

Seems like a neat idea, but there is no way I am allowing an internet based program unbridled access to my hard drive.

I would be way more worried about firefox.
Both upload/download from your hard drive with out prompting you, but dropbox only looks to the folder you tell it and not what ever ones it thinks it needs and is not open source.

But truth be told, I don't worry about either. Drop box is awesome, just be sure you aren't syncing files with someone with illegal files... Just be aware that anyone you give access can put anything under the file size limit on your hard drive.
Another site had a common dropbox, which lead to p0rn, which lead to strange p0rn, which likely lead to p0rn that could get you questioned pretty good.

[The Siath]

Seems like a neat idea, but there is no way I am allowing an internet based program unbridled access to my hard drive.

I would be way more worried about firefox.
Both upload/download from your hard drive with out prompting you, but dropbox only looks to the folder you tell it and not what ever ones it thinks it needs and is not open source.

But truth be told, I don't worry about either. Drop box is awesome, just be sure you aren't syncing files with someone with illegal files... Just be aware that anyone you give access can put anything under the file size limit on your hard drive.
Another site had a common dropbox, which lead to p0rn, which lead to strange p0rn, which likely lead to p0rn that could get you questioned pretty good.

Yeah THAT issue is why I choose DropBox - as it's only you and whomever you allow (heck you can 'invite' to share, deny the share and just have a nice 2GB online space... accessible from multiple computers with the log in (you can add them manually to have their own log in too).

[Infinitiguy19]

I am sure the people worried about Drop Box are worried about it being exploited, And they are correct as nothing is safe. But I like Drop Box!