Tech

I am thinking about whether I want to use Dropbox to sync my files anymore. Don't get me wrong, I love Dropbox. It came along in beta in just 2008 just as I needed it to manage my PhD thesis. In fact I often jokingly claim to having invented it by asking on the MacRumors forums whether a program like it existed - just a few weeks before its beta rode in to my life like a knight in shining armour. I recognised the need for a service that would synchronise a single directory and its contents between multiple computers using The Power Of The Internet™. I was used to using commands like scp to maintain my static blog on the university's servers and the multiple computers that I authored it from, though in 2008 when I moved back to my parents' house to write up my PhD I was frustrated that I couldn't work out how to do the same things when the target was a PC running Windows XP.