With the dropbox, however, can make much more than pure data exchange. In the meantime, a number of tools and web services have emerged that extend the functions of the service, speed up the use, or completely turn it around for other purposes.
Tool 1: SortMyBox
We have compiled the best of these tools and web apps - there is something useful for every Dropbox user.
Tool 2: IFTTT
SortMyBox creates order in the dropbox. You define rules for SortMyBox to sort files, and the rest happens automatically whenever you upload a new file. For example, the rules can be "All with the file ending .mp4" in the "Videos" folder or "All files whose name 'Tim' contains in the 'Private' folder.
Tool 3: Drop it to me
Like Dropbox, SortMyBox runs in the cloud and, of course, the software needs access to the dropbox files. If you have a Google AppEngine access, you can also install the OpenSource software via GitHub.
Tool 4: Print via Dropbox
Go to website: SortMyBox
With the online service IFTTT (short for "If this then that") you can link your dropbox to other web services. To do this, create rules according to the pattern "If X happens, do Y". X is a triggering event, Y is an action, or to remain in IFTTT jargon: a trigger and an action.
The Dropbox channel of IFTTT knows the "New file" or "New image" triggers in the dropbox as well as the "Add file from URL", "Create text file" and "Add text to a text file" actions. The sample recipes IFTTT shows for the dropbox channel are more meaningful.
For example, you can automatically save images stored in Instagram in your Dropbox, have callers on your Android phone recorded in a text file in the dropbox, or drop any Facebook picture you are tagged into the dropbox
IFTTT is free of charge, free of charge, and can also be operated from the smartphone thanks to corresponding apps.
Go to website: IFTTT
Swap without Dropbox - Similar to the Side Cloud Load service, Drop It To Me works, but it is less for your own use, but for others who want to send you files. So that not everyone can fill your Dropbox account, set a password that the sender must know.
First, create an account with Drop It To Me and link it to your Dropbox. Enter the uploader password. At the end you will get a personal link in the form: "www.dropitto.me/my_name". You also need to know your friend. If he opens the link and enters the uploader password, he can select a file up to the size of 75 MB from his computer and load it into your dropbox. It appears in the Dropbox subfolder "DROPitTOme."
Go to website: Drop It To Me
Tool 5: Dropbox Portable AHK
Dropbox can also be used to print files automatically. Windows users use the Visual Basic script from Labnol.org. It creates a subfolder named "PrintQueue" in the dropbox. Whatever you place here is automatically printed on the standard printer as soon as your PC synchronizes with Dropbox. Labnol.org also demonstrates how to get this feature running on OSX and Linux.
Bonus tip: Set up a rule in your email client that handles messages with the subject "bill" and known senders like Amazon, Ebay, or your favorite online store. It automatically stores attached PDFs in the PrintQueue folder and archives the relevant mails. Then you do not have to worry about printing receipts.
Go to website: Labnol.org
Dropbox for the stick: Dropbox actually lives on it, in several places firmly installed the data to mobilize. But with the Dropbox Portable tool you make the Dropbox mobile. Install the tool on a USB flash drive, and carry the sync tool with you. Then you can start it on any Windows computer without installation. The Dropbox folder is also on the stick, so you do not have to create it on the remote computer.
However, a first configuration is required: Unpack Dropbox Portable AHK in a directory on the stick and start the exe file. A wizard will guide you through the configuration, for example, to specify the swap folder that should be on the stick.
Tool 6: Viivo
Tool 7: Mover
One setting that you can make is "Sync and Go": This will automatically close the application when the synchronization is complete. This is useful if you just want to keep a short-cut of a folder.
After configuration, start the portable tool wherever you want from the stick. If you want to recall the configuration, press and hold the Shift key while the tools are started.
Go to website: Dropbox Portable AHK
Encryption for your files in the cloud: Not only since the NSA scandal, many users fear an unencrypted award of their data in difficult-to-control cloud services. So it is quite useful to encode the data before the actual upload.
Truecrypt or Veracrypt, which allows you to create encrypted containers that you can mount as drives into the Windows tree, is a simple way to do this. This is known by most users. Because the container files are very large, deployment in the cloud is only worthwhile if you are using a service that only transmits changes to files and does not always contain the complete file. This is done with Dropbox and Hidrive, but not with Skydrive or Googel Drive.
An alternative are special cloud encryption services such as Viivo. Viivo offers its own folder, which you use like the Dropbox folder. The files that you insert there again, automatically encrypt Viivo and pushes them into the dropbox. This takes the synchronization.
On the other side of the line - like your notebook - Viivo waits and retrieves everything that is new in the dropbox, decrypts it and puts it readably into the Viivo folder there. Practical advantage: Parallel to the encryption, the dropbox can be used as usual, because Viivo places its files in a special folder within the dropbox: Vivo-Encrypted. The security service is a kind of encoded meta-layer over the dropbox.
Viivo also works with Googel Drive, Skydrive and Box.net. There are also Viivo apps for iPhone and Android devices.
Go to website: Viivo
Setting up cloud backup for the cloud: The Mover web tool automates data transfer between different resources on the web. This allows you to move data between different cloud services. It is not possible to upload files from the PC.
The copying itself is simple: Enter a source on the left and a destination on the right. In the middle, you can specify additional options, such as mover zipping the data or repeating the schedule on a regular basis.
An incremental backup is also possible, which means that Mover always transfers only the changed data. This is useful, because you have to pay the service by GByte: 1 US dollar per GB.
Go to website: Mover
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