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Dropbox is one nifty online app. Download it and it creates a dropbox folder on your computer. You have a username and password. Whatever you plonk into your local folder will magically be found on your online dropbox. Okay, uploaded in the background, but no less magical to the user. Whatever you add to your online (remote) dropbox will be ‘dropboxed’ into your local (computer) folder. How convenient is that? I can send a URL to a buddy that allows instant download of the file from my online dropbox. Better still, you can share all the contents of specified online folders with other users. So if I share ABC folder with a friend who has a dropbox account, an ABC folder will be created on the friend’s online and local dropboxes. Whatever I add or delete from my ABC folder will be added or deleted from my friend’s ABC folder. Works like Remote Desktop Connection shared server folders. But on a smaller (only 3 gigs free space) scale.Usability-wise, dropbox is excellent. I still can’t get over how the creators of dropbox made remote file sharing and backup extremely intuitive and easy to use. Big points for the idea of local dropbox folders that unobtrusively synchronise with remote folders. Oh yah, forgot to mention it’s available for PC and Mac. Small wonder that they have 2 million users. No, I am not paid to flog dropbox.