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hey guys it's Brad a minimun from pocketnow.com you probably have multiple computing devices like a smartphone a laptop a desktop or just a smart phone and a laptop or combination of those somehow and a problem that you've probably had in the past is how do I synchronize files across all of my devices so that I don't have to constantly be transferring with cables using USB flash drives to move things around emailing files to myself well folder sharing isn't new there have been programs around for many years now or you can take a folder on your desktop put it on your laptop put it on your desktop and have everything synchronized back and forth but what is new is mobile clients that allow you to do this on your smartphone to Dropbox has mobile clients for all of the smartphone platforms so in this video we're going to show you dropbox working on Windows Phone Android iPhone and yes even the iPad let's take a look now when you download dropbox and by the way it's available for mac and pc and linux it will create a Dropbox folder for you that you can put on your desktop or in your documents the purpose of this folder is to keep everything inside of the folder always in sync and you get a little green checkmark next to all the items in the folder to tell you that it has been synchronized so what I'm going to do now is just drag a photo into this Dropbox and this will synchronize across all of my devices i'm going to show you the web version next and then we're going to go into the mobile versions okay so here we are in the web interface it's very simple and this is great because of your you're at a friend's house and you want to grab a file a photo or a document and you don't have dropbox installed you just log into the web interface so if i click on the multimedia here you'll see that picture that i just placed in the dropbox folder already synchronized let's take a look on mobile devices okay so we're going to start off on Windows Phone and I should say that Dropbox does not have a standard or a native windows phone client but a company called rutten soft has made something called cloud files which will allow you to access all of your Dropbox content so I'm going to click on it here and i'm going to log in okay and here i'm logged in and here are my two folders docks and multimedia so i can click on docs and i've got a different file type for all of the microsoft office suite so I've got PIAA a word document Excel and PowerPoint or actually I should say and also a PDF so I can click on any of these and jump right into them and each program gives you different options so I can view the file and it's going to download and open it up and here we go here's the PowerPoint presentation right in the on the device and we can also open these other things here's a PDF we can view it or we can edit it and it will synchronize across all of the devices and it's going to open Adobe Reader 2.5 and well you get the point let's take a look at another device let's take a look at Android so on Android the client is native so it's made by drop drop box so let's go to the drop box client and with Dropbox you get two gigabytes of space free and the way that they make money is that they have plans that have a lot more space so here we go we are inside of my Dropbox I've got those two folders by multimedia I can open up photos and it's downloading the download speeds are usually quite fast although I must say that if you're trying to do multimedia on your smartphone it doesn't always work too well so I'm going to take the smallest song here Foo Fighters monkey wrench and I'm going to open it in the music player and it's going to do this for a very long time over a fast hsdpa connection so I'd say if you're using the mobile clients of Dropbox really use it for documents and photos and not so much multimedia because it doesn't seem to be well optimized for that ok let's jump over to the iphone ok here we are and again this is a native client that dropbox made it's not a plug-in or anything like that so here we go there are my two folders once again and it works a little bit different in the iphone so we can tap on a on any of those documents and we get it in sort of a viewer within the dropbox application not as robust as you will get on a device like an android device or Windows Phone device that has better support for microsoft office documents so we can go into an Excel and xls spreadsheet and things don't always display so well especially on the iphone this really doesn't work too well and it just cancelled out but things like PDFs work pretty well actually very well the iphone is very good PDF support and you get the point and the same thing applies here to multimedia so if i try to open a song here the smallest one here food fighters it takes a really long time to access that content so again for documents it's great not so much for multimedia finally let's check out the ipad version okay so now we're on the ipad let's take a look at Dropbox here so there's the client and it keeps you logged in which is quite nice and here we get a list of my folders on the left side and over on the right you can see the preview of a document that I had just been looking at so we can go back to docs we can open up any of these things it is just like the iphone really good PDF support let's go to an Excel spreadsheet see how it comes up a little bit actually a lot bit better and then on the iphone and we can actually switch between multiple sheets right here but we really can't do anything to edit the Excel and if we go back to the other files the multimedia folder let's take a look at how a picture comes up very nice right on the right side makes really good use of screen space see what happens if I try to open up a song I think it's actually gonna work amazing and so it actually worked through the eye patch of course has better hardware than the iphone to be able to handle this kind of multimedia bringing it down very quickly so quite nice on the iPad so if you're having trouble keeping things in sync and you have multiple computers you've got files everywhere try dropbox it's free and with all of these mobile clients it really changes the way that you use technology I think because you can always have those critical documents and critical pictures with you wherever you go synchronized across all of your devices on pocketnow.com pushed further instructions on how to get the dropbox clients for windows phone iphone ipad and android then if you liked the video please give a thumbs up and subscribe to our channel if you like these videos that's it for now