Keep everything organized without breaking your flow. one central place. They’re easy to find and safely synced across all your devices—so you can access them anytime, anywhere. No more wasting the day tracking down work. - Dropbox
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Dropbox
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2. Intro
Dropbox is a cloud storage service operated by
American company Dropbox Inc.
Dropbox is a File Hosting Service that
offers Cloud Storage, File Synchronization,
and Client software.
Dropbox allows users to create a special folder
on each of their computers, which Dropbox then
synchronizes so that it appears to be the same
folder (with the same contents) regardless of
which computer is used to view it. Files placed in
this folder also are accessible through a website
and mobile phone applications.
3. Brief History
• headquartered in San Francisco, California
• Dropbox was founded in 2007, by MIT students
• Drew Houston and Arash Ferdowsi, as a startup company
• Written in -> Python, Go & CoffeScript
• Operating System -> Windows, MacOs, Linux, Android, iOS, Windows Phone.
• Available in 17 languages.
4. • Dropbox founder Drew Houston conceived the Dropbox concept after
repeatedly forgetting his USB flash drive while he was a student
at MIT.
• began making something for his personal use, but then realized that
it could benefit others with the same problems.
• Houston founded Dropbox, Inc. in June 2007, and shortly thereafter
secured seed funding from Y Combinator.
• Dropbox's official domain name was "getdropbox.com" until October
2009, when it acquired its current domain, "dropbox.com".
8. • Dropbox Business is Dropbox's solution for corporations
• More business-centered functionality for teams
• Collaboration tools
• Advanced security and control
• Unlimited file recovery
• Options for unlimited storage.
9. • ability to keep two Dropboxes on the same computer—one for your
personal files and one for your work files.
• Working together is about to get a lot easier.
• Accept a Dropbox Business invite
• Require single sign-on
• Saving space on your hard drive using Selective Sync
• Dropbox Business admin dashboard
• Switch between accounts
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11. • Dropbox Paper is great for capturing ideas and gathering quick
feedback from your team.
• flexible workspace where you can write text, task lists, or code, and
also embed images, audio, and video
• Explore and edit, No one will see your edits unless you share it.
• Paste images (including gifs) right next to each other and they'll
organize automatically.
13. • Embed rich content like videos from YouTube and Vimeo, audio
from Spotify and Soundcloud, and files from Google Docs and
Dropbox by simply pasting the link
14. • Insert tables
• Collaborate with others—Get others in your doc by sharing it.
Invite anyone you’d like—your teammates, your manager to give them access
to your doc.
• Get feedback
• Bring someone’s attention to a comment or task by typing @ and
their name or email address.
22. • Dropbox offers 2 GB of storage
• Dropbox does support many file types including
PDFs, documents, video, photos, Photoshop files, and
music. They can be viewed in the browser, but
you can't edit them online.
• Dropbox offers sharing directly from its desktop
app.
• Dropbox has a slight upper-hand, as it's also
compatible on Linux and Blackberry.
• Dropbox offers a similar two-step verification
feature, where you must submit your password in
addition to a six-digit security code in order to sign
in.
• Google Drive offers 5GB for free.
• Google Drive supports up to 30 different file types,
all of which you can open directly within your
Web browser.
• Drive only allows you to share through its Web app
• services are available on iOS, Windows, Mac, and
Android devices.
• Since Drive links to your Gmail account, you can
enable two-step authentication.
