October 11, 2012 
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Icebox is a simple archiving application built on top of Dropbox, the file sharing application that we all know and love. Everything you love about Dropbox—it’s simplicity, ease of use, reliability—comes with IceBox because of this. Add IceBox and you’ll be able to archive your files just as easily and quickly as you would share files on Dropbox.
(Full Story: Icebox Pro – move files to Glacier vis Dropbox)
January 5, 2012 0 Comments
Like IFTTT, Dropbox Automator is capable of triggering a similar series of actions, based on what kind of files have been added to your Dropbox folders.
(Full Story: DropboxAutomator.com – Automate your Dropbox)
December 23, 2011 0 Comments
OwnCloud is an open-source cloud program. You use it to set up your own cloud server for file-sharing, music-streaming, and calendar, contact, and bookmark sharing project. As a server program it’s not that easy to set up. OpenSUSE, with its Mirall installation program and desktop client makes it easier to set up your own personal ownCloud, but it’s still not a simple operation. That’s going to change.
(Full Story: OwnCloud: An open-source cloud to call your own | ZDNet)
June 7, 2011 0 Comments
Web based player for mp3s in your dropbox. Looks easier to use than Google Music or Amazon CloudPlayer.
(Full Story: DropTunes)
May 19, 2011 0 Comments
Chatbox makes it easy to discuss or comment on files shared over Dropbox. Install it, right click on any files / folders inside Dropbox, and start conversations with people you shared the Dropbox folder with.
(Full Story: Chatbox – Project collaboration inside Dropbox)
April 22, 2011 0 Comments
Adding all this up gives us a cost in the range of $3.1M – $5.8M per month….At this much lower profitability level, Dropbox will need between 852,000 and 1.6M paid users, or a conversion rate of 3.4% and 6.3% respectively. Running this calculation at a paid usage somewhere in the middle results in a required conversion rate of 1.8% to 3.4%
(Full Story: The Economics of Dropbox)
April 18, 2011 0 Comments
Jotform allows you to quickly create a form that allows users to send images, video or text directly to a folder that you specify in your Dropbox.
(Full Story: Dropbox Forms: Receive files from your web site to your dropbox!)
April 18, 2011 0 Comments
The DROPitTOme service allows you to set up a custom URL, like ‘www.dropittome.com/choosaname’, to give out to people. They can then use that URL to send files directly to your Dropbox. You have the option to password protect the address as well.
(Full Story: DROPitTOme – Securely receive files from anyone to your Dropbox)
April 18, 2011 0 Comments
Sending an email to someone requesting a file can be a tricky proposition. You never know exactly how they’re going to try to send you what you’re asking for. Will it come through a file sharing service? Heavily compressed and unusable by email? On horseback? Now you can use Filestork to request a file and have that file delivered directly to your Dropbox.
(Full Story: FileStork – Request files from anyone using Dropbox)
March 15, 2011 0 Comments
Poll – Polling 30 Milion Clients All Over the World Doesn’t Scale: Created an HTTP notification structure to avoid polling the server on the client site.
(Full Story: 6 Scalability Lessons from Dropbox – One Million Files Saved Every 15 minutes)
