Dropbox, the must have service for backup in the cloud, has a time limited offer for anyone becoming a tester of their latest beta version – up to 4.5GB of additional free space.
This is what you should do:
1. If you don’t have a Dropbox account yet, you will first need to signup for a free account
2. After you’ve signed up and installed the latest Dropbox client on your PC or Mac, you will need to download and install beta 1.3.13. You can find the links to the different versions (Windows, Mac, Linux) in this post.
BTW, for those who typically don’t install betas – I’ve been using the beta for a few days without any issues.
And now the free stuff – During the beta period, Dropbox is offering additional free space to test automatic uploading of photos and videos. Meaning, as soon as you plug your iPhone or digital camera, Dropbox upload wizard will pop and offer you to backup the photos & videos to Dropbox. For every 500MB of photos and videos automatically uploaded, you’ll receive another 500MB space bonus, up to 5GB total. Just start uploading the first batch of photos and check the size of your dropbox.
This is a sweet deal. Don’t miss it.
Earlier today Net tweeted that he bought a new MacBook and looking for recommended applications. My first reaction was to reply using twitter. However, 140 chars are not enough to list all the apps I have on my MacBook Pro and that I recommend.
So, here is the list, created in the easiest way I know, a screenshot: My Mac Apps
BTW, I did that using my favorite, the must have app, Jing.
Screen capture is a utility that I use daily. Ever since I switched from a PC to a Mac I was looking for one that has the same features as SnagIt, which is the best screen capture utility for a PC.
I tried many screen capture utilities for Mac OS. None of them support all four requirements which I consider to be a must:
- Capture multiple region types: selection (most important), full screen & window while providing a clear preview of the captured area
- Save in different file formats including PNG
- Capture video
- Fast and easy to use image editor, built into the screen capturing utility (no need to copy image to another application), that allows me to add basic elements like arrows, boxes and text to the captured image. I use this often to do quick and dirty mockups, report bugs and just take visual memos of stuff I see on the web
What I have found is that most utilities for the Mac support the first 2 requirements, a few also support the 3rd (Video) but very few support the last one (image editor) which is what I find to be the killer feature of a good capturing utility.
Until I discovered Jing, a freeware that has it all and more (like a one click upload of the captured image to Flickr).
BTW, it was created by TechSmith, the same company behind SnagIt — these folks clearly understand screen capturing.
You can download it for free here.
P.S.
PC users – You are not forgotten. Jing has a Windows version as well.
