For a level playing field, after seeing the best applications for Google Drive on Chrome, we also see the best applications to use the other popular and excellent online "cloud" storage service, Dropbox . Dropbox, as it has been around for several years, is supported by many external applications developed to make the best use of the service and take advantage of the "online hard disk" space in which to save files for a space of 2 or more GB with a free account .
There are applications to do almost everything: synchronize Google Docs (and Google Drive) with Dropbox, automatically send Gmail attachments to Dropbox, play music in a browser of mp3 files saved in Dropbox, encrypt files, host a website or a blogs, save web pages, save Facebook photos in Dropbox and much more.
Those who take advantage of online storage services can also view all the files saved in Dropbox in Google Docs and other free services, all together on one page.
1) Use Dropbox to host a website or blog
In Dropbox you can take advantage of the public folder by adding the files of your website to it.
For example, if you imagine opening a blog blog on Blogger.com, if you need hosting to save HTML, JavaScript, CSS, files for visitors to download or even photos and images, you can use Dropbox.
Also, if you want a simpler solution, you can use applications like DropPages.com and Pancake.io that allow you to publish simple and free websites using Dropbox.
DropPages and Pancake are more suitable for the publication of static web pages while Scriptogram is oriented to the blog format (with reverse chronological order of the posts).
A mini guide to Droppages is in the article where there are also two other apps to listen to music in Dropbox and to create an online image gallery : "DropBox to listen to music online, publish photos and create sites"
2) Keep Google Drive and Dropbox synchronized .
You can create a double copy of the files so that they are available from both Google Drive and Dropbox and that the files are always identical, even after making changes to one of the archives.
InSync is a program that works as an enhanced client to upload files to Google Docs from desktop.
Since InSync can keep Google Drive in sync with a Windows folder, you can make it work with the folder created by Dropbox.
On InSync (available for Mac and Windows) enter Preferences and change the default directory by choosing the Dropbox folder.
3) Save the Gmail attachments in Dropbox
As explained, you can quickly save the files attached to incoming messages on Gmail, in the Dropbox folder with a single click.
4) Save your favorite websites in Dropbox
GimmeBar is a bookmark service where you can store web pages, photos and everything you see on the internet.
Gimme Bar account can be linked with Dropbox.
5) Download the files directly into Dropbox
URL Droplet is just one of the online services for sending files to Dropbox and uploading them online .
Just copy and paste the download address of any file and the application will save the file to the Dropbox folder in the background.
This is especially useful when you want to upload a file online to Dropbox from a computer without logging in to your account.
6) Send files to Dropbox via the web
If you want other people to be able to upload files to your Dropbox, but without having to share folders with them, you can use the Send to Dropbox web application to receive files from anyone and anywhere.
7) JetForm is a web app for Dropbox that allows you to create a module to be incorporated into your site to receive files from visitors.
7) Transfer files from Dropbox to any other Cloud service
To transfer files through different cloud services such as Dropbox, Google Drive, Facebook, SugarSync, etc., Otixo is an almost perfect solution that allows you to manage all cloud services together from your computer .
8) Upload files to Dropbox via email
Dropbox, unlike SugarSync, does not offer the possibility of uploading files via email, but there is a free app to do it, and it is the aforementioned (in a previous post) Send To Dropbox.
Once the Dropbox account is connected with the application, an e-mail address is obtained and all the files sent to this address will be saved in the Dropbox drive.
This is useful for uploading files online from a mobile phone or when you want to quickly save Gmail attachments to your Dropbox.
9) Edit text files saved in Dropbox
You can create a document to be saved in Dropbox with web apps like WriteBox, to write quick notes.
10) Connecting online accounts with automatic actions and updates can be done with the powerful IFTTT application that allows Dropbox to integrate with Facebook and other online services.
Dropbox Automator also allows you to link Dropbox to Facebook, EverNote, Twitter, Instagram, etc.
11) BoxCryptor instead allows you to protect the files in the Dropbox folder with a password, as explained in another guide.
12) Dropboxifier is finally an application to synchronize folders in Dropbox without moving them.
13) Sortbox is a web app that magically sorts the files saved in Dropbox according to set rules.
It works not to sort existing files into existing folders, but it is to automatically place new added files into the appropriate folders
