Dropbox client with new interface
New Dropbox features and changes are often released as experimental builds to a targeted audience before they make their way into the stable version of the file synchronization client. This serves two purposes: it acts as a beta test of sort for Dropbox to make sure the feature or change is stable enough to make it into the stable version, and provides cutting edge users with an option to test features before they become more widely available.
The latest experimental build of the Dropbox client introduces a new modernized interface that is doing away with the flood of links displayed on the main page of the old interface. You instead see the most recent updates here, the percentage of storage used and total storage available, options to open the Dropbox website or folder, a pause button to stop the synchronization, and a new settings button that leads to the program options.
The settings button opens the Dropbox preferences in a new window that has not changed that much. What you will notice though is that you can't terminate Dropbox from the system tray anymore. A right-click and left-click opens the new interface. You instead need to click on the settings button, and there on Exit Dropbox under General. It is alternatively possible to terminate the Dropbox process, but I would not really recommend doing that.
The new interface is currently available in English, it has not been localized yet. If you depend on that, I'd suggest you wait until Dropbox finishes the localization. Linux users are also not getting the new interface right now, it is only available for Mac OS X 10.6 or higher, and on Windows XP and above. You find the new client posted on the Dropbox forum.
The new interface looks much better than the old one. But looks are not necessarily what users care about when it comes to file synchronization. The recent transfer history is a nice addition that is certainly helpful to some, as is the pause button. The only real downside is that it now takes longer to exit Dropbox on the system.(via Caschy)
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Doesn’t Windows 8 know that www. or http:// are passe ?
Well it is a bit difficulty to distinguish between name.com domains and files for instance.
I know a service made by google that is similar to Google bookmarks.
http://www.google.com/saved
@Ashwin–Thankful you delighted my comment; who knows how many “gamers” would have disagreed!
@Martin
The comments section under this very article (3 comments) is identical to the comments section found under the following article:
https://www.ghacks.net/2023/08/15/netflix-is-testing-game-streaming-on-tvs-and-computers/
Not sure what the issue is, but have seen this issue under some other articles recently but did not report it back then.
Omg a badge!!!
Some tangible reward lmao.
It sucks that redditors are going to love the fuck out of it too.
With the cloud, there is no such thing as unlimited storage or privacy. Stop relying on these tech scums. Purchase your own hardware and develop your own solutions.
This is a certified reddit cringe moment. Hilarious how the article’s author tries to dress it up like it’s anything more than a png for doing the reddit corporation’s moderation work for free (or for bribes from companies and political groups)
Almost al unlmited services have a real limit.
And this comment is written on the dropbox article from August 25, 2023.
First comment > @ilev said on August 4, 2012 at 7:53 pm
For the God’s sake, fix the comments soon please! :[
Yes. Please. Fix the comments.
With Google Chrome, it’s only been 1,500 for some time now.
Anyone who wants to force me in such a way into buying something that I can get elsewhere for free will certainly never see a single dime from my side. I don’t even know how stupid their marketing department is to impose these limits on users instead of offering a valuable product to the paying faction. But they don’t. Even if you pay, you get something that is also available for free elsewhere.
The algorithm has also become less and less savvy in terms of e.g. English/German translations. It used to be that the bot could sort of sense what you were trying to say and put it into different colloquialisms, which was even fun because it was like, “I know what you’re trying to say here, how about…” Now it’s in parts too stupid to translate the simplest sentences correctly, and the suggestions it makes are at times as moronic as those made by Google Translations.
If this is a deep-learning AI that learns from users’ translations and the phrases they choose most often – which, by the way, is a valuable, moneys worthwhile contribution of every free user to this project: They invest their time and texts, thereby providing the necessary data for the AI to do the thing as nicely as they brag about it in the first place – alas, the more unprofessional users discovered the translator, the worse the language of this deep-learning bot has become, the greater the aggregate of linguistically illiterate users has become, and the worse the language of this deep-learning bot has become, as it now learns the drivel of every Tom, Dick and Harry out there, which is why I now get their Mickey Mouse language as suggestions: the inane language of people who can barely spell the alphabet, it seems.
And as a thank you for our time and effort in helping them and their AI learn, they’ve lowered the limit from what was once 5,000 to now 1,500…? A big “fuck off” from here for that! Not a brass farthing from me for this attitude and behaviour, not in a hundred years.