Tag: Dropbox

January 26, 2022

Two of the world’s most widely used online storage services, Dropbox, and Microsoft OneDrive, are warning Mac users of a looming problem in a coming macoS Monterey update. You’ll need to download files to use them for a while They […]

December 13, 2021

In the beginning, Chromebooks weren’t really meant to manage files. It’s tough to even remember now, but in the earliest incarnation of Chrome OS, way back in the Paleolithic era of 2010, Chromebooks didn’t have a Files app. You couldn’t […]

July 15, 2020

To send a bunch of pictures or a video from one iPhone to another is a quick and easy task. You’re free to use AirDrop, or if the recipient isn’t nearby, there’s also iCloud photo sharing. To send images from […]

October 12, 2016

Dropbox announced today that it will soon deliver a highly requested feature to its iOS app: Split View support. This will let iPad users run Dropbox side-by-side with other Split View apps without switching between apps. While Split View is coming […]

July 29, 2016

Collaboration remains one of the primary selling points for cloud services, but the desktop metaphor used in cloud service interfaces in order to present lists of files hails from the era of personal computing. On Wednesday, Dropbox turned the familiar folder […]

May 11, 2016

Dropbox launched a new service on Tuesday to help graduate students, college faculty and staff collaborate on files while they’re at school. Schools can now pay $50 per user, per year for Dropbox Education, a version of the cloud storage […]

April 26, 2016

Dropbox has a futuristic vision for how its users will be able to share massive files and have quick access to them on their computers, without their hard drives overflowing. The cloud storage company announced a new initiative at its […]

March 15, 2016

After years of relying on the Amazon cloud to store its users’ files, Dropbox has shifted gears and begun using primarily its own technology instead. “We’re excited to announce that we’re now storing and serving over 90 percent of our […]

December 8, 2015

Dropbox has abandoned its efforts to take over your smartphone. The company announced today that it will shutter two applications, Mailbox and Carousel, in 2016 as a result of its new focus on helping workers collaborate with each other. But […]

November 5, 2015

Remember ProjectComposer, the mysterious productivity app Dropbox began testing in the spring? It turns out Project Composer was the code name for Dropbox Paper, a collaborative note-taking app that works inside of Dropbox, which the company quietly launched in beta […]