I’d been meaning to write about how awesome Dropzone and Dropbox are but TUAW has a good writeup on Dropzone at the above link. You’ve likely heard about Dropbox already. It’s the wicked easy, multi-platform cloud storage and backup tool that gets you 2GB of storage for free. It also makes sharing files a snap.
But what is Dropzone? Dropzone is a simple Mac app that resides in the dock. You can drag all sorts of files to Dropzone and do stuff like:
- Mount a disk image, install the app on the image, unmount the image and put it in the image trash ALL BY DRAGGING AND DROPPING THE IMAGE ONCE!
- Move all your stock images to a folder on your network.
- Upload images for your weekly email newsletter (we call ours Top 5) via FTP.
Here is where Dropbox and Dropzone work together to make magic:
- Upload a file to your public Dropbox folder and copy the file’s URL to your clipboard…with one drag and drop of the mouse. Boom!
Dropzone and Dropbox has made many mundane tasks a snap for me! I’m sure the time I save mounting disk images, uploading stuff, fumbling through YouSendIt, etc. really ads up. The coolest thing about Dropzone is it is expandable with some script wizardry and it’s only $10! Go check it!
