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I’m someone who works in both the PC and Mac worlds. My home machine is a Mac. But at work I (have to) use a PC. There are plenty of times when I need to share files easily between machines. Not only share, but SYNC the files.

Dropbox allows you to easily set up a “cloud” storage space that can sync between your computers. That’s 2GB of FREE storage that you can share, backup, or sync files with.

I’ve tried many solutions and found that Dropbox is one of the easiest. Once you’ve signed up for a free account, you download the install and run it on each machine you want to sync up. It installs on PC, Mac, even Linux. You can set up hidden or public folders, even share your photos with others through it.

I’ve used Dropbox since it was in beta, with only one problem — I was running an older version on one of my computers; upgraded and all synced again!

How does it compare to some other solutions? It’s similar to both Syncplicity and Microsoft’s livemesh, though for me, both of those solutions were more difficult to get set up (and for livemesh, a pain on updates).

If you are looking for a fast, easy, CROSS-PLATFORM and FREE solution to file storage and syncing, check out Dropbox.

Sign up now and Dropbox is offering an extra free 250Mb to their 2GBs of storage!

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