Thursday, July 15, 2010

A useful file sharing resource for collaborations

I have just started using Dropbox to share files with other people.

Ben Powell and I are currently writing a review article together and it is proving extremely useful and pretty much bug free (provided more than one person is not editing a file at the same time!).

It saves the need to keep emailing each other the latest version of all the files.

It is also a much easier way to share large files and folders than emailing them.

Highly recommended.

1 comment:

  1. Why not just use an SVN? Makes it much easier to keep up with versions, see what changes people commit, etc. (and you don't have to trust some company with your files)

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