![]() ![]() ![]() SugarSync is pretty similar to Dropbox in the way it works and synchronises across your mac and iOS devices. So, if you sign up with my link below, you’ll get an extra 500MB free But one nice thing they do is a referrals system, whereby you can earn 500MB extra storage for yourself and anyone you refer. If you want more than the measley 2GB storage you get for free, Dropbox have paid plans, going up to 100GB and beyond. Dropbox was originally intended as an online backup and a means of synchronising your files across, say, your work and home computers, but its availability on iOS makes it equally useful for getting files onto or off your iPhone/iPad: just shove them in your Dropbox and pick them up at the other end.īecause Dropbox has been around for so long and is so well-known, you’ll find that a lot of iOS apps already support saving to and opening from Dropbox directly but, even for those that don’t, you can always open the Dropbox app, tap and hold on the file in question and wait for the Open in… menu to pop up, to open that file in any app which thinks it can handle it. There can’t be many people about who haven’t heard of Dropbox but, just in case, here’s a quick run down: Dropbox gives you a free 2GB Dropbox folder of online storage, which appears in your Finder sidebar and automatically synchronises over WiFi across all your computers and iOS gadgets. Hence the quest to find out what else was out there. Both iPhoto and Aperture are hefty downloads and in my opinion Aperture is nowhere near as good as Lightroom, so I don’t see the point in installing a huge lump of crappy bloatware, just to allow me to download the odd photo to my comp. Given that I’m already using Adobe Lightroom to manage my photos, this is a major annoyance. The problem with iCloud is that to get photos off it and onto your mac, you need to be using either iPhoto or Aperture. In fact, it turned out to be a bit of a life-saver a few weeks back, when the missus realised she’d deleted a load of photos off her iPhone, that she needed for a college project: luckily they were all still in her PhotoStream on iCloud. This is a handy feature, whereby the last 1000 photos you’ve taken on your iOS gadgets are automatically stored in iCloud. ![]() The reason I find iCloud annoying and have had to look for additional alternatives lies with PhotoStream. I use it to synchronise my Address Book, iCal calendar and info from a few apps, which don’t need too much storage -iCloud gives you 5GB for free, with more available at pretty ungenerous rates. iCloud tossersĪpple’s built-in cloud storage is a pretty easy way to get files to and from your iOS gadgets, providing you don’t mind being forced to use Apple software for the entire process. First up, I’ll give Apple’s own iCloud offering a mention, seeing as it does have some good features. So here are a few goodies I’ve discovered, over the years, which will help make this process a bit easier. But one bugbear I have with these gadgets is the way that Apple makes it so difficult to get stuff on and off them, without either using only Apple apps, like the execrable iTunes or using clumsy workarounds such as emailing files back and forward as attachments. ![]() Being an Apple ‘fanboi’ of long standing I love my shiny iPhone and iPad. ![]()
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