Dropbox

I treat my Desktop as “stuff I’m working on right now” and file things away into project folders after I’m done actually working on them. I also use 3 different computers, and a couple of iOS devices. How to sync this active-work area across all? This would work with any other file sync tool1. It’s an easy trick, based on one I found on Lifehacker2. It’s also not necessary - it’s trivial to just leave the active-work files in the Dropbox directory, but then you have to go digging every....

I've really been loving running my own dropbox clone, by using owncloud running on my Hippie Hosting Co-op account. It's (mostly) seamless and automatic, and (usually) Just Worksâ„¢. It's not as polished as Dropbox's UI, but that's not critical (although the status badges on files and folder badges would be nice…) But, over the last week or 2, I've been noticing that owncloud on my work computer gets wedged. Digging into the status, the URL changes from my owncloud instance to something intercepted by browser-based wifi authentication....

In the Reclaim project, I've been struggling to find a way to properly access my files from anywhere - Dropbox has that problem solved handily. I've been watching ownCloud for awhile, and it's getting to the point where it's just about ready to use as a self-hosted Dropbox replacement. Previous versions had web- and webDAV interfaces, but didn't have the ability to sync files to each computer I use. The web interface worked, but was too awkward to actually use for anything....