Like you, I’m In and Out, on the Go, and in a hurry. I need my important stuff handy wherever iGo and whenever I get there.
I searched around for something REALTOR® friendly. Something simple and affordable. Something that works smooth-like-real-butter, on my desktop, my notebook, my iPad and my iPhone.
I and settled on a beautifully simple application called Dropbox. The process is straight forward. If you’re looking for a simple synching solution, I think you’ll like this.
- Sign Up for your Drobox account. 2Gigs for free. 50GB for $9.99 per month. Or, 100GB for $19.99 per month. There are discounts if you pony-up a year in advance.
- Simply download the software to your computers/mobile devices and launch. Computer, iPad and iPhone applications are free.
- Drag previously saved files into your Dropbox folder (See below) and begin saving new important files to your Dropbox folder and you’re good to go.
Most of my important stuff, listing presentations, .PDFs, letters, contracts, photos, slide-decks, etc., I create on my desktop or notebook. For things I want to have handy anywhere (my desktop, my notebook, my iPad the cloud or my iPhone), I save it to the Dropbox Folder.
Here’s what you get on your computer when you install the Dropbox application. Notice the Dropbox folder on the left hand side (red arrow). To sync your files on all your geek stuff, either save new files to the Dropbox folder or drag previously created files from another folder to the Dropbox folder. The little green-for-go check-mark means the file has been successfully synced (the syncing magic happens quietly in the background).
After you save something, the Dropbox application automagically syncs your stuff to your high-security Dropbox cloud account. In the unlikely event that you need something important, and heaven forbid, you don’t have your computer/phone/iPad with you, just log on to your secure Drobpox account and get what you need. Here’s what my Dropbox cloud-account web site looks like:
After you save a file to one of your Dropbox enabled devices, or the cloud site, the next time any of your devices is connected to the internet, your files are synced. You can open any file, change it, save it, and it’ll be good to go on all you devices. Plus everything you need is everywhere you need it. Very simple, very affordable and very cool. The Dopbox app for mobil devices has some cool forwarding and sharing features too.
For the iPad, I recommend you buy (.99cents) the GoodReader.com application. This cool app, syncs with Dropbox and gives you magical viewing powers. You can open and read the most popular and common file types. Yes, Mac and PC.
OK. That’s it. I imagine there are other solutions, this one works great for me and I know it’ll work great for you too. If you get started, within a few minutes, all your important stuff will be everywhere you are, whenever you need it – Geek Sync completed.
Thanks for reading.
Cheers.
