Dropbox

Oh Hey, Dropbox’s Carousel App Doesn’t Suck Anymore

Back in April, Dropbox introduced a standalone app for viewing and sharing photos. Carousel was an exciting prospect, harnessing the power of Dropbox’s popular cloud storage. It was also kind of a mess. Lo and behold, over a series of recent updates, Carousel has fixed almost everything that was wrong, and is now a joy…

Cybercriminals Are Using Cloud Storage to Hoard Stolen Files

Cybercriminals: They’re just like us! At least, their choice of cloud storage isn’t so far off from your average non-despicable data thief. Instead of using dedicated servers to hoard stolen data, hackers have taken to using popular consumer products like Google Drive and Dropbox. “What it comes down to is, the criminals are using the…

Change Your Password: Hackers Claim Hundreds of Dropbox Passwords Leaked

Reddit users are claiming that several Pastebin files containing hundreds of Dropbox users’ usernames and passwords have been leaked. Change your password just in case and activate two-factor authentication if you haven’t already. Update: Dropbox claims that their servers have not been breached and this info was stolen from a third party. According to the…

Dropbox Delete Your Files? You Might Get a (One Year) Free Pro Upgrade

Earlier today, news came that Dropbox had deleted user files from the cloud. While it’s going to restore some of them, it can’t bring them all back to life. But it can, according to an email published at Engadget, offer those who lost digital detritus a year’s worth of Dropbox Pro to make up for…

Dropbox Has Deleted a Bunch of User Files From the Cloud

Bad news for some people who only live on the cloud: Dropbox has confirmed that a bug in some older version of its dekstop app has deleted user files from the cloud. Good news: Dropbox says that it’s restoring files where it can and is updating the bug. More bad news: it can’t restore all…

Dropbox Suspends Auto-Upload Feature Because iOS 8

Uh-oh: iOS 8 has only-barely-kinda-sorta rolled out, and it’s already breaking things. Dropbox has ‘temporarily suspended’ the auto-upload feature on its iOS app because of compatibility issues with iOS 8. If you’re already in the process of upgrading, Dropbox warns in a blog post that you should double-check that photos have uploaded before deleting them…

How To Use Dropbox’s New Pro Tools

Good news, cloud storage fans! Dropbox has slashed its storage prices, simplified its plans, and rolled in a glut of new tools for paying customers, some of which were previously only available to Business accounts. Here’s a brief tour of some of the new features you’ll get if you decide to pony up $10 per…

Cloud Storage Showdown: Google Drive, Dropbox, iCloud and More Compared

Cloud storage bigwig Dropbox just slashed the price of its plans, offering 1TB of storage for $10 per month. And it’s not alone. Over the last year, most of the major players have been cutting prices and upping sizes. So what’s the best option today? The price of storage has gotten so cheap that most…

You Can Now Get 1TB of Dropbox Pro Storage For Just $10 a Month

Dropbox Pro users just got way more storage for the same price. The file-sharing service now gives you 1TB of storage for $10 a month instead of 100GB. This isn’t a casual price cut; that’s a 90 percent price reduction per gigabyte. Dropbox likely did it to stay competitive with Microsoft OneDrive and Google Drive,…

Dropbox on iOS just got an update: it will now search the contents of your Microsoft Word and PowerPoint documents. And it now supports large, animated GIFs, just in case you’re the kind of weirdo that uses Dropbox to hoard your kitten GIFs. [9to5 Mac]

5 Essential Add-Ons For Dropbox

Many of us rely on Dropbox for file syncing and backup, but you might not be aware of all the different extensions and services that you can plug into it. Here are our five favorite Dropbox add-ons to supercharge your storage. 1. Drop It To Me If you want to provide an easy way for…

Go Check When Your Free Cloud Storage Deals Expire

1GB here, 50GB there—the bonus cloud storage space you can pick up by buying a Chromebook, connecting a Samsung tablet or subscribing to Office 365 can soon start to add up. The trouble is, many of these tempting deals are time-limited, which can leave you in quite a pickle when the expiration date passes. Typically,…

How To Recover Old Versions and Deleted Files in Dropbox

Dropbox offers an excellent way of syncing files across computers and devices, sharing files with others and automatically backing up your photos. The more you dig into the app, the more features you uncover, and one tool you might not know about is the ability to recover deleted files. Any file deleted in the last…

​Everything Apple Tried to Kill Today at WWDC

Today at WWDC, Apple announced a huge batch of products aimed straight at the heart existing companies and apps. Here are just a few of the things that are feeling a spinning beachball target on their backs. Dropbox iCloud has never been a hugely appealing cloud storage option, that’s at least partially because Dropbox and…

If you use Dropbox or Box, make sure you’re restricting access to shared links. Otherwise, third party advertisers could be raking in some seriously sensitive URLs. Dropbox your tax return, anyone?

Dropbox Carousel Hands On: So Many Swipes, So Little Time

Today Dropbox announced a new app just for viewing and sharing photos. It’s called Carousel, and it allows and your friends to seamlessly share images between your Dropbox folders. But you might not want to give it a spin. There are plenty of camera roll replacements out there for both iOS and Android, but unlike…

Mailbox, the delightful email tool that Dropbox bought a little over a year ago, will finally be available on Android and desktops. The Android version should hit Google Play today, with desktop available as a limited beta for now. Update: Here’s your Google Play download link.

Dropbox Is Making Online Collaboration Less Conflicting

Dropbox is set to receive a slew of new features, the popular cloud storage service announced at a press conference in San Francisco today. Here’s what’s in store for users. Some 275 million people now use Dropbox, with more than a third of that total having joined within the last year alone. While the service…

How Dropbox Knows When You’re Sharing Copyrighted Files

You might have seen over the weekend that Dropbox is capable of telling whether you’re sharing copyrighted files over its cloud service—without even actually looking at your stuff. But in fact, it’s been able to do that for years. A tweet this weekend from Darrell Whitelaw spoke of a DMCA takedown in his personal folders…

This Year’s 20 Must-Have Mac OS X Utilities

Without further introduction, here are all the utilities that have been especially useful in enhancing my productivity during 2013.