Dropbox is a free service that allows you to put files up on the Internet (“the cloud”) and lets you access them from your computer(s), smartphone(s), tablet(s), and other devices. You can even share these files with friends. Dropbox has a terrific tour to tell you what it is and what it does. Take the Dropbox tour. It has cute illustrations and will take you less than 5 minutes.
Perhaps its greatest trick is that when you take a picture on your phone or your tablet, it automagically* uploads it to the Dropbox cloud, then down to any of your devices. So that picture you took of your dog/the sunset/that sale item/yourself automagically* gets to your computer without you connecting any cables. Awesome!
*“Automagically” is a highly technical term meaning “you don’t have to do anything to have amazing things happen!”
So…how does one get started with Dropbox on their computer and Android devices? Here are the steps:
- Find out what your Gmail address is on your Android device
- Create (or find an existing) a Dropbox Account
- Configure your account “in the cloud” (AKA Browser)
- Setup your computer for a Dropbox folder
- Setup your Android devices (phone/tablet) for Dropbox
- Share your files with others
Each of those steps is in a separate post, just to make things manageable.
Let’s get started. Find out what your Gmail address is. >>>>
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