I will never repeat enough in this blog how useful and versatile the DropBox web application is, the one that allows you to synchronize files on the internet in order to keep them online and always find them at hand from other computers or mobile phones. DropBox is better than similar or identical applications such as Memopal, Sugarsync or the recent Amazon Cloud Drive because DropBox is a multipurpose tool that allows you to take advantage of the web for many other purposes thanks to its integration with external services.
For example, in this article, we see how you can listen to music uploaded to DropBox online thanks to a web player, how you can see the images uploaded to the internet in a photo gallery and even how you can create a website using DropBox as hosting .
After registering a new account on DropBox and after downloading and installing the program on the Windows or Mac computer and uploading a few files online, we can also:
1) Listen to music from Dropbox
Although it is possible to play mp3s and other audio files saved in Dropbox folders, the site's interface leaves a lot to be desired.
In fact, you can only listen to one song at a time and the audio player is a player with only the Play / pause button. Using the VLC apps for Android and VLC for iPhone, however, you can listen to music saved in Dropbox as if it were a real music library or playlist .
By choosing the folder where there are mp3 files, you can listen to music by playing the songs in sequence, without interruption.
2) Create an image gallery in Dropbox
Not only does the application provide free hosting to upload images but also to browse your gallery or portfolio on the internet, complete with previews and miniatures as you would on a site like Flickr. From Dropbox itself, just right-click on the folder containing the photos and choose the Gallery view. The photo gallery opened in the web interface on the Dropbox website, displaying the images as a grid of thumbnails which, if clicked, enlarge on the page without reloading. Pressing the slideshow function you can see the photos in automatic sequence. Of course it must be remembered that the image folder can be shared or remain private and that whoever sees the photos can also download them to the computer.
3) Create a website on DropBox
This is a truly innovative feature that becomes a quick solution for those who need to create a site on the fly for free. Among the various services the best is perhaps DropPages you can choose a white or blue graphic theme to generate a folder in .zip format. The Zip archive must be extracted into a DropBox folder whose name becomes the name of the site itself.
Right click on that folder in DropBox and invite the user to share (Invite to Folder).
In the end, after droppages has accepted and confirmed the invitation via Email, you can have a website like pomhey.droppages.com or, by paying, you can use your own personal domain or buy a new second level one. Editing the site with DropPages does not require any technical knowledge because it is enough to edit the text files in the Dropbox folder to customize the contents of the new website. By installing the DropBox program on your computer you can edit the text files from your PC, without having to connect to the site.
All this and even more can be read in the post with the best 15 applications to use Dropbox in different ways .
