A simple insurance policy should a tech disaster strike your home, Google's free cloud sync tool has some great new features.

Traditionally the simplest way to protect your important files like digital photos, school assignments and business reports was to copy them to a USB drive, or perhaps to a Network Attached Storage drive tucked away in the spare room.

Dropbox is giving Australian users a performance boost with the opening of a new local point of presence. Running their own dedicated equipment in one of Equinix's Sydney data centres, Dropbox's Dan Iverson, the head of solutions architecture APAC, said the new PoP will act as a proxy server improving performance for Australian users. It follows on the steps of similar initiatives in other regions.

Mac: If you just upgraded to macOS Sierra and your Dropbox app is acting up, you're not alone. Even with the latest version of the app, some users are experiencing strange behaviour -- error messages, confusing syncing icons and so on. Here's what you can do to mitigate the annoyances.

Using Google Drive to sync your folders with your computer used to be an "all or nothing" scenario, and that would eat into your hard drive space. With last week's update for the Google Drive desktop app on Windows and Mac OS X, that's no longer the case.

Access to decent cloud storage is practically a necessity these days whether it's for work or play, but everyone seems to have an opinion on which one is best. Let's break down three of the most popular file syncing services out there and see which one reigns supreme.