Dropzone is a neat little app that seems like a basic file sharing utility, but when you look further you’ll find it actually provides fantastic shortcuts for moving, copying, and uploading files, perform various tasks, and use information. Everything is handled via drag-and-drop, saving you time with common, tedious tasks.
Planning a vacation doesn’t necessarily mean you have to get someone to come and water your plants, especially if you only have a few that need a little care while you’re out of town for a few days. Just grab a platic water bottle and a couple of plastic pot trays to rest your plants in. By the time you’re finished, your plants will water themselves.
Chrome: If you have a few browser extensions you love to use, but they cause problems on specific websites or you don’t need them enabled all the time, Extension Automation is a simple tool that automates extensions based on the site you’re visiting.
Dropbox Automator, a powerful web app that processes files of many types as soon as you place them in Dropbox, got a major update recently with speed improvements, better security and connections to more services. You can now have automated actions for Picasa and Google+, Kindle and Box.net.
Earlier this week, website owners with sites hosted at a service called Cornerstone got a big scare: The service appeared to be closing without notice, and their owner was nowhere to be found. Terrifying, right? Unless you back up your website regularly, that is. Here’s how to set up automated backups for your website so if worst came to worst, your data would remain safely in your hands.
Mac: Apple’s Photo Stream service for iCloud is a great way to keep your photos on your iPhone in sync with your computer, but it requires you use the newest version of iPhoto. Macworld forum member DJF3 came up with a script to automate the process and skip over iPhoto.
Dropbox updated its desktop clients yesterday with new photo features, including one that can give you up to 5GB of space and today the Android app has followed suit with a new beta that automatically uploads photos after you take them.
Android: Syncly keeps watch over your Android’s SD card, automatically uploading new photos to Dropbox as soon as you take them — so you don’t need to do anything to keep everything synced to the cloud. We’ve talked about how to roll your own instant photo upload for Android before, and while apps like DropSnap are great, Syncly puts them all to shame.
Belvedere, our automatic file management tool for Windows, has updated with a few new features, like the ability to move folders around and add tracks to iTunes.
Your home folder is the base of operations on your computer, where you throw every document, app installer, photo and other file you’ll need later. So why does it look like it’s been ravaged by a virtual tornado? Here’s how to organise all of your documents so you never have to rummage through a mess of files again.