I had mentioned in my previous post a service called Dropbox. The truth is there are a lot of "cloud storage" services, such as Amazon's EC2 and Ubuntu One, but I prefer using dropbox for a couple of reasons. One major reason is that dropbox has clients for most major platforms, including windows, linux, mac, android, iphone, etc. Another reason is that, while most other free versions have the same amount of initial storage, Dropbox has the added benefit of giving you ways to increase your storage. Dropbox will give you up to 3GB of extra storage for a total of 5GB. For every referal you get for Dropbox, they will give you 250MB of extra storage. You can also get extra storage for things like publishing an ad from your twitter account.
So once you pick the storage service of your choice, what do you use it for? Well, there are a lot of great ideas, such as the ones in this Lifehacker article. One of my favorite uses is to sync my keepass database across multiple computers. When I make a change on one computer, the database is then synced between the rest of my computers. This solution is a lot better than constantly updating each individual computer, or carrying around a jumpdrive with the database on it! I also like to use the public file feature in order to share files or pictures with friends and family.
So checkout Dropbox or one of the other great storage services and have fun!
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