3/12/2013

[macsupport] Digest Number 9430

10 New Messages

Digest #9430
1a
Dropbox by "hester" drhester_06107
1b
Re: Dropbox by "Charles Carroll" charlesmarkcarroll
1c
Re: Dropbox by "hester" drhester_06107
1d
Re: Dropbox by "Denver Dan" denverdan22180
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Re: Dropbox by "Charles Carroll" charlesmarkcarroll
1f
Re: Dropbox by "hester" drhester_06107
1g
Re: Dropbox by "Andrew Buc" andrewbuc
1h
Re: Dropbox by "Denver Dan" denverdan22180
1i
Re: Dropbox by "Otto Nikolaus" nikyzf

Messages

Mon Mar 11, 2013 11:31 am (PDT) . Posted by:

"hester" drhester_06107

Anyone know anything about Dropbox? Is it safe to download and install?

Thank you in advance.

hester

Mon Mar 11, 2013 11:39 am (PDT) . Posted by:

"Charles Carroll" charlesmarkcarroll

Yes it is safe and reliable. It is a cloud drive so you can save and
retrieve files from there as you move from machine to machine.

On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 2:31 PM, hester <dhreik@gmail.com> wrote:

> **
>
>
> Anyone know anything about Dropbox? Is it safe to download and install?
>
> Thank you in advance.
>
> hester
>
>
>

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Mon Mar 11, 2013 11:43 am (PDT) . Posted by:

"hester" drhester_06107



Thank you very much.

--- In macsupportcentral@yahoogroups.com, Charles Carroll <911@...> wrote:
>
> Yes it is safe and reliable. It is a cloud drive so you can save and
> retrieve files from there as you move from machine to machine.

Mon Mar 11, 2013 12:15 pm (PDT) . Posted by:

"Denver Dan" denverdan22180

Howdy.

I use Dropbox.

It's easy to install and easy to use.

The free DB account provides 2 GB of cloud storage space.

You can create folders, upload files, then send a link to friends to
download them.

The installation of DB will put a special Dropbox folder in your
Sidebar and this is a link to the Dropbox folder on your hard drive.
Just copying a file into this special folder will upload it to
Dropbox. It's sort of like a mirror.

A Menu bar menu for Dropbox is also installed.

I now use the password manager named 1Password on my Mac, iPad, and
iPhone and 1Password uses a file that you upload to Dropbox for the
automatic secure linking between the various Mac and iOS devices.

If you want more than the 2 GB of free storage, it's IMO a bit
expensive to buy it via Dropbox.

Denver Dan

On Mon, 11 Mar 2013 18:31:44 +0000, hester wrote:
> Anyone know anything about Dropbox? Is it safe to download and install?
>
> Thank you in advance.
>
> hester

Mon Mar 11, 2013 12:52 pm (PDT) . Posted by:

"Charles Carroll" charlesmarkcarroll

I use KeePass for passwords i.e.
http://keepass.info/download.html

but lots of good DropBox basics and easy good password info in your post.
Excellent.

On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 3:15 PM, Denver Dan <denver.dan@verizon.net> wrote:

> **
>
>
> Howdy.
>
> I use Dropbox.
>
> It's easy to install and easy to use.
>
> The free DB account provides 2 GB of cloud storage space.
>
> You can create folders, upload files, then send a link to friends to
> download them.
>
> The installation of DB will put a special Dropbox folder in your
> Sidebar and this is a link to the Dropbox folder on your hard drive.
> Just copying a file into this special folder will upload it to
> Dropbox. It's sort of like a mirror.
>
> A Menu bar menu for Dropbox is also installed.
>
> I now use the password manager named 1Password on my Mac, iPad, and
> iPhone and 1Password uses a file that you upload to Dropbox for the
> automatic secure linking between the various Mac and iOS devices.
>
> If you want more than the 2 GB of free storage, it's IMO a bit
> expensive to buy it via Dropbox.
>
> Denver Dan
>
> On Mon, 11 Mar 2013 18:31:44 +0000, hester wrote:
> > Anyone know anything about Dropbox? Is it safe to download and install?
> >
> > Thank you in advance.
> >
> > hester
>
>
>

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Mon Mar 11, 2013 3:47 pm (PDT) . Posted by:

"hester" drhester_06107

Thanks, Dan. Based on Charles' reply, I went ahead and downloaded it. Indeed, it's simple, user-friendly and easy. WIll stick w free copy for now. I am learning chinese and was able to access my instructor&#39;s mp3 audio files thereby. Chinese sounds are very hard! (sorry to be OT, even if briefly :)).

Thanks again to you and Charles.

hester

--- In macsupportcentral@yahoogroups.com, Denver Dan <denver.dan@...> wrote:
>
> Howdy.
>
> I use Dropbox.
>
> It's easy to install and easy to use.
>
> The free DB account provides 2 GB of cloud storage space.
>
> You can create folders, upload files, then send a link to friends to
> download them.
>
> The installation of DB will put a special Dropbox folder in your
> Sidebar and this is a link to the Dropbox folder on your hard drive.
> Just copying a file into this special folder will upload it to
> Dropbox. It's sort of like a mirror.
>
> A Menu bar menu for Dropbox is also installed.
>
> I now use the password manager named 1Password on my Mac, iPad, and
> iPhone and 1Password uses a file that you upload to Dropbox for the
> automatic secure linking between the various Mac and iOS devices.
>
> If you want more than the 2 GB of free storage, it's IMO a bit
> expensive to buy it via Dropbox.
>
> Denver Dan
>
>
> On Mon, 11 Mar 2013 18:31:44 +0000, hester wrote:
> > Anyone know anything about Dropbox? Is it safe to download and install?
> >
> > Thank you in advance.
> >
> > hester
>

Mon Mar 11, 2013 6:24 pm (PDT) . Posted by:

"Andrew Buc" andrewbuc

On Mar 11, 2013, at 12:15 PM, Denver Dan wrote:

> If you want more than the 2 GB of free storage, it's IMO a bit
> expensive to buy it via Dropbox.

You can get a bit of extra storage by getting friends to sign up for
Dropbox--if they aren't already signed up, of course.

Mon Mar 11, 2013 10:06 pm (PDT) . Posted by:

"Denver Dan" denverdan22180

Howdy.

Glad you found it easy.

Explore what you can do with it. For example, on the Dropbox icon in
your Sidebar, use it to open a folder and then try a right click to
bring up some Dropbox specific menu items that are helpful.

Denver Dan

- - - - -

p.s. Good for you on the Chinese. My youngest nephew majored in
Chinese and Russian and speaks and writes Chinese pretty decently.
Years ago he was on leave visiting me at Christmas and I took him to a
nearby mall to find gift things. He drove there in his brand new
pickup, first car he ever bought on his own, and in the crowded parking
lot was backed into by someone which damaged his new truck. He got out
and a Chinese woman got out of the car that backed up. She began
speaking Chinese and nephew replied in Chinese and the lady nearly
collapsed in total shock. I thought it was pretty funny.

On Mon, 11 Mar 2013 22:47:05 +0000, hester wrote:
> Thanks, Dan. Based on Charles' reply, I went ahead and downloaded it.
> Indeed, it's simple, user-friendly and easy. WIll stick w free copy
> for now. I am learning chinese and was able to access my instructor&#39;s
> mp3 audio files thereby. Chinese sounds are very hard! (sorry to be
> OT, even if briefly :)).
>
> Thanks again to you and Charles.
>
> hester

Tue Mar 12, 2013 5:46 am (PDT) . Posted by:

"Otto Nikolaus" nikyzf

There are many features I haven't used yet but the first one I tried was
photo syncing. On installing it on my iPhone, Dropbox asked if I wanted to
sync my photos. As I was on Wi-Fi at home at the time, I said 'yes' and
after a couple of minutes all my iPhone photos were in Dropbox.

So what, you say? Well, I had also installed Dropbox on the Mac and those
same photos were automatically downloaded to a folder of my choosing.

In fact, I then deleted them as I had already imported them all into iPhoto
and I didn't want to waste space with duplicates, but you can see how
useful this might be, especially if you want to back up new photos on your
phone when you're away from home.

Otto

On 12 March 2013 05:05, Denver Dan <denver.dan@verizon.net> wrote:

> Howdy.
>
> Glad you found it easy.
>
> Explore what you can do with it. For example, on the Dropbox icon in
> your Sidebar, use it to open a folder and then try a right click to
> bring up some Dropbox specific menu items that are helpful.
>

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Mon Mar 11, 2013 4:50 pm (PDT) . Posted by:

"John Richardson"

Another possibility is an included microphone. That may also explain the
Amazon deal. However, if it does have the standard included microphone...:)

John

-----Original Message-----
From: macsupportcentral@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:macsupportcentral@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Dane Reugger
Sent: Saturday, March 09, 2013 9:23 PM
To: macsupportcentral
Subject: Re: [macsupport] why is dragon talk to text $100 more for MAC

I know virtually nothing about these products but I assume you are referring
to Mac Dictate which is $200 and $100 more Dragon Naturally Speaking Home?

My *guess* is that they feel Mac Dictate compares with Dragon Naturally
Speaking Premium which has the same retail cost of $200.

Amazon seems to be selling Mac Dictate for $70 off of retail @ $130 - I hope
that helps.

http://www.amazon.com/Dragon-Dictate-Version-3-0-Mac/dp/B009348X7Q/

FWIW - I have never even heard of dragon express?

-Dane

On Sat, Mar 9, 2013 at 10:32 PM, Bess Glenn <bessglenn@theriver.com> wrote:

> Does anyone have an understanding of this? Anyone have a way around it?
> I have really bad arthritis and typing is very painful.
> I don't have $100 more for Mac dragon. I bought dragon express but
> can't make it work.
> Bess
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