Cloud storage services like Dropbox have made it a snap to move large files around, but that convenience is generally predicated on having the client software installed on whatever PC you are working ...

While Dropbox public links are very useful for sharing files with your friends, a lot of files (text files, MP3s, PDFs, and others) will automatically open up in their browser. Here's how to get them ...

For instance, if you come across a large video file or a software update that you want to download, you don’t have to wait for the download to finish on your local machine. Instead, you can use URL ...

Drew Houston was waiting for a bus at Boston's South Station in December 2006 when frustration sparked inspiration. The MIT computer science graduate planned to work on a coding project during the ...

Remember Dropbox, the service that lets you back up files, share them with others, and sync them with other PCs? It's no longer an invitation-only beta: Now anyone can sign up. After installing the ...

When you upload a file to Dropbox, it's first sent in its entirety to Dropbox's servers and then it's downloaded to any synced computers. In a new, experimental version of Dropbox, however, you can ...

As file storage favourite Dropbox adds the option to turn private files it stores into public, linkable content, it has overnight transformed into a de facto file-sharing service. The trouble is that ...

Before Dropbox became popular, there was iDisk, which was Apple’s cloud storage system. iDisk allowed you to store documents, pictures, QuickTime files, and PDFs in one cloud-based “drive.” This was ...