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Bump adds support for sharing files via Dropbox

by Mike Schramm (Jan 18th, 2013)

I remember Bump from its early days on the App Store, when it was one of the first "contact sharing" apps with a unique gimmick: where you simply "bumped" your iPhone to someone else's to share contact information. Since then, however, Bump has been steadily upgrading its app, adding lots of ...

Dropbox buys photo aggregation and sharing service Snapjoy

by Randy Nelson (Dec 19th, 2012)

Snapjoy announced today that it has been purchased by cloud storage firm Dropbox. Snapjoy is a startup focused on aggregating photos from various sharing services -- such as Picasa, Flickr and Instagram -- and devices, providing users access to them in one place via a web interface and iOS ...

Dropbox for iOS updated to version 2.0 with all-new design

by Mike Schramm (Dec 14th, 2012)

Dropbox is our filesharing workhorse of choice around these parts, and the company has just updated its iOS app (for iPhone and iPad, of course) to version 2.0. The update is a big one, featuring an all-new (and "shiny," according to the release notes) design, as well as a new Photos tab, for ...

Dropbox hits 100 million users, looking for great Dropbox stories

by Mike Schramm (Nov 14th, 2012)

Dropbox has announced that it has reached 100 million users, an impressive number to be sure. For comparison's sake, here's Wikipedia's list of virtual communities with more than 100 million users, which currently has seven companies on it, so Dropbox has just joined a very exclusive club. ...

Lingon and launchd can keep crucial apps always running

by TJ Luoma (Oct 30th, 2012)

Two years ago I wrote about a shell script that I used with cron to keep 'critical' applications running. Some of the commenters suggested that I "should" be using launchd. There are times when I still prefer cron over launchd but there are two reasons why I have started using launchd more often. ...

Dropbox for iOS now supports iPhone 5, improves photo resolution

by Steven Sande (Oct 23rd, 2012)

There's an update to Dropbox for iOS waiting to be installed. Dropbox version 1.5.6 appeared late yesterday and provides some nice new features that are sure to make users of Dropbox camera import happy. The app provides full support for the iPhone 5, but the biggest change involves how ...

Send Instagram to Dropbox for a cool Apple TV screen saver

by Mike Schramm (Sep 4th, 2012)

Just recently, I posted about the Instacube, a Kickstarter project that allows you to more easily show off your great (or at least well-filtered) photography work on Instagram. But it turns out you don't need a whole cube to do that. With the proper tweaking of IFTTT (a tool we at TUAW also ...

Dropbox two-step verification available for testing (Updated)

by Kelly Hodgkins (Aug 27th, 2012)

Update: It looks like 2-step authentication is now available for everyone. As reported by Techdows, Dropbox is allowing users to enable two-step verification on their accounts. Two-step verification requires users to enter a six-digit security code along with their password when they login to ...

A Cautionary Tale: Do not move or rename your iCloud folder

by TJ Luoma (Aug 22nd, 2012)

"As if it were a swarm of bees, you should stay away from the SyncServices folder.' -- Apple The moral of the story that I am about to tell is that Apple's advice about the SyncServices folder also applies to your iCloud documents. Here is the summary: "Do not move your iCloud folder. Do ...

Dropbox sends password change notification to some users

by Michael Rose (Aug 1st, 2012)

In a blog post today, Dropbox's VP of engineering Aditya Agarwal explained that the online storage company is addressing some key security concerns in the wake of some concerning incidents. Some Dropbox users saw a spike in spam messages to their registered email accounts over the past few ...

Daily Update for July 11, 2012

by Steven Sande (Jul 11th, 2012)

It's the TUAW Daily Update, your source for Apple news in a convenient audio format. You'll get all the top Apple stories of the day in three to five minutes for a quick review of what's happening in the Apple world. You can listen to today's Apple stories by clicking the inline player ...

Dropbox doubles storage on Pro plans -- for free

by Steven Sande (Jul 11th, 2012)

Dropbox users who have one of the Dropbox Pro 50 or 100 GB plans woke up to a pleasant surprise this morning -- they now have double the storage space in the cloud and didn't have to pay a cent more. According to a post last night on the Dropbox blog, they've been getting requests for bigger ...

Apple, Dropbox, our PC-free future and our sweet solution past

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (May 2nd, 2012)

A few days ago in the Dropbox forums, a developer said Apple had rejected his app due to a little quirk, so to speak, in using Dropbox. Specifically, if a user doesn't have the Dropbox app installed, a link to a web page would be issued, causing the user to go to Dropbox's website or a mobile ...

VoodooPad 5: wiki magic

by Brett Terpstra (Apr 26th, 2012)

For those of us who nerd out about things like desktop wikis, VoodooPad 5 (from the creator of Acorn) is an exciting release. It brings new capabilities so powerful that they should come with a "for good, not evil" warning. If you're not familiar with VoodooPad, it's a desktop wiki with media ...