Earlier this week we asked you to share your tricks and techniques for keeping files synced between your different devices. Now we’re back to highlight how you do it.
Overwhelmingly, you do it with Dropbox. Despite the proliferation of different platforms there has been little inroads made into any sort of universal syncing. We heard from quite a few different readers and by far the most popular option was to use Dropbox to ensure that you could get the music and documents you wanted whether you were on your desktop, laptop, netbook, iPhone, or Android device.
In the same breath however, nearly all of your added on an additional service. The real message, it would seem, is that there simply isn’t a service good enough to meet all of the needs most users have, all of the time. The most common response to our Ask the Readers question was “Dropbox and…”; this pattern is illustrated nicely in the following quotes. Kim writes:
Dropbox for all kinds of things. (Would also use Sugarsync, but it doesn’t support Linux.)
Lastpass for passwords.
Xmarks for bookmarks, although I’m going to try Firefox Sync soon.
Evernote for things like shell commands I might want someday.
Google Beta for music, once I get it uploaded. I have an Amazon account too, but Google gives you more space.
Gmail.
Michael finds himself in a similar situation and writes:
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