DropBox
There’s been a few posts about Dropbox on Planet GNOME before. I have to join in on the praise. This is all I have hoped iFolder would become. A well designed file synchronization service that really hides the complexity and feels very easy to use. There’s clients for Windows, Mac and Linux. You can obviously share a folder with friends and they will get notified of file changes, so it’s extremely nice for icon design collaboration.
Apart from just doing synchronization, it does basic version tracking. Thanks to this I was able to “record” an icon drawing session by simply combining all the versions Dropbox created every time I saved a file.
What you see above has been created in two sessions of about 5 and 3 hours, sadly dropbox can’t make me faster.
Some will not be willing to run a binary daemon syncing files, but for me it has been a great time saver for cooperation with my icon buddies.
October 24th, 2008 at 5:02 am
Nice! DropBox surely comes in handy if the artists want to create a tutorial on how to reproduce their artwork. Besides, your icon rocks, I love the new 256×256 detailed icon
October 24th, 2008 at 11:54 am
iFolder is a Novell product. It has very good features like encryption, efficient sync algorithm, pass phrase recovery, setting restrictions on iFolder usage at user level, group level, system level etc, can set up many servers (master-slave) environment etc………
October 24th, 2008 at 2:10 pm
hell, why iFolder was abandoned is beyond me. It was the single most useful and promising app I could think of in our arsenal. I kept hoping since 2004 that it would be maintained properly and packaged for debian and ubuntu, or at least be able to build and work on anything else than SuSE. I’ll have to look into Dropbox, but I’m very wary of putting my files into the hands of a third party online service, and having a limited-storage free account.
October 24th, 2008 at 9:25 pm
Nice stuff, you feared that the video would have been too short, but there were so many iteration that it’s long enough now
Dropbox rulez btw!
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