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Introducing Mickey Hadick:
Mickey makes his living as a Business Analyst in the insurance industry, and has spent his career with information technology. If you’d like to learn from his mistakes, visit MickeyHadick.com where he blogs and tells stories in his spare time.

I am a recent convert to Dropbox, a cloud service for synchronizing the contents of computer folders. It’s clever beauty resides in it’s ability to notice that a file has been added, updated, or deleted and immediately makes the change on the server’s copy of your file folders.

It’s magic happens when you install Dropbox on any, and all, computers that you use. Dropbox copies the changes from the server back to those other computers. A common scenario is you have a netbook computer you keep in a briefcase, a laptop in the dining room, and one or more desktops scattered around the house. The kids may already take turns on the better desktop computer so that they can keep up with their friends online, so you need to wait until later in the evening before you can access that machine to design and print an invitation. However, thanks to Dropbox, you can compose some of the content on your netbook during the day and later revise the text and begin to layout the design on your laptop in the dining room after dinner. The work begun on the netbook is automatically pushed to the laptop once the Dropbox software connects to the cloud. Those updates will then get pushed to the desktop machine when it is your turn to use it, where you can finalize the invitation. Continue reading…

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