Dropbox displays sharing notifications on the desktop
The Dropbox team is releasing experimental versions of the service's client regularly on the official forum. These versions more often than not contain new features that Dropbox wants to test before making them available to all users of its service. A new version of Dropbox was released today by the team that adds a new feature to desktop clients of the service.
You probably know that you can share links pointing to files with other Dropbox members or share them publicly instead. You add the names or emails of people you want to share a particular file or folder with and once you hit the submit button, they will receive notification about the shared contents via email.
The new feature of Dropbox 1.7.2 adds these sharing notifications to the desktop client so that you can always take a look at the most recent folder and file shares.
Dropbox notes that you can not only check the most recent shares but also accept or decline them right from the desktop. Previously, you had to go to the Dropbox website to accept or decline shares.
The experimental feature has a couple of limitations in this version. It is only available for Windows (XP and up)Â and Mac OS X (10.6 and up) and not Linux. Notifications have not yet been localized so that you will only receive them in English right now.
It is likely that these issues will get sorted out quickly so that Linux support and localizations will become available in the next couple of weeks.
Desktop notifications can improve the overall sharing experience on Dropbox. Not only will you receive notifications about shared contents in real-time, you also get options to accept or decline them right on the desktop so that you do not need to open the Dropbox website to do so anymore.
The very same feature has been added to the latest experimental Android forum build as well. You can download the latest Dropbox experimental version from the official forum.
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.