Still using a USB thumb drive? For most uses there are better options. I'll start with introducing one of them: DropBox. What is DropBox? Well, if you imagine a USB thumb drive that's connected to all your computers and devices at the same time via the Internet you get a pretty good idea of what it is. A slightly more technical description of Dropbox would be that it's a cloud storage service with a user friendly interface. The best thing is that If you have ever moved, copied or saved a file on the hard drive of your computer, you already know how to use it! It works just like the regular file system. In the two-three years I've been using DropBox its become one of the necessities of both my private and professional e-life. The basic service, which includes 2GB of storage, is completely free. That's less storage than on a modern thumb drive, but far more useful.Here are some of the ways I use Dropbox: First of all I use it to transfer files between all my devices. There are some files that I always want to be able to access regardless of wether I'm using my phone, my work computer, my own computer or my tablet. By storing them on my DropBox I can access them from anywhere. If I ever need to access them from a computer that isn't mine I can always access my files via my account on the DropBox website. A very smart feature is that you can access your documents even if you're not connected to the Internet. Once you get connected again the latest changes are updated on all your devices.  Second, sharing folders with friends or colleagues is another great use for DropBox. I work in different projects with different constellations of people. The project members need to be able to read and edit the same documents and keep track of the latest editions. With DropBox this is a breeze . At the start of the project one of the members sets up a shared folder for the project and invites the others as members. Once everyone has accepted the invitation, everything that goes into the shared folder is immediately accessible to all the other members of the project, but no one else. The other documents in my DropBox that are not in the shared folder cannot be accessed by anyone but me. If we invite clients and other parters to also share the project folder they too can access to the latest version of the project documents without any risk of them seeing other documents they should not have access to. Third, my DropBox also includes a Public folder. All the documents in this folder can be accessed by more or less anyone. Sounds risky? Well, in a way it is. You should be really careful about what you put in the Public folder, but it can also be a very useful feature. Each file in the public folder has its own unique web link. If you have a photo you want to put on your blog or website or if you have a document that you want everyone to be able to access, just put it in your public folder and post the link. As an example I used the public folder on my DropBox to host the images in the "Quick Language Switching on the iPhone" article below, until I figure out a better solution. Lastly, I'm obviously not alone in finding DropBox very useful. More and more apps have started using Dropbox as an optional storage and syncing solution. Lots of great apps, like GoodReader, Writing Kit and ArtRage, include features for syncing your files directly to and from your your DropBox, making them directly accessible on all your devices. This is where It really gets useful. This article is stored on my DropBox allowing me to edit it from the device I'm using for the moment. If you want to try out Dropbox just go to their website at [Dropbox.com](https://dropbox.com) and sign up for their free account. It's very easy and they provide you with all the info you need to get started. As I said earlier you get 2GB of storage with the free account. Not much but very, very useful, as I've tried to describe in this post. If you like it and feel that you need more space you can pay to upgrade the capacity. If you do you get a total of 50GB of storage space or more. Although i really like the service I haven't upgraded. To me it feels like a somewhat steep slope; Either 2GB or 50GB. I would have preferred an upgrade to perhaps 10-15GB at a somewhat lower price. I really hope that they'll introduce that in the future.
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