Dropbox for free iPad
Posted by simon under iPad on Friday Feb 25, 2011
Dropbox was first invented for the web where you open an account and store every file you want. You can move around the world and still access your files using the on the web. This iPad free storage device on the Internet gives only up to 2GB free storage. In case you want to upgrade the storage memory to 100GB, you have to purchase other items and storage from Dropbox at an affordable monthly fee. The iPad has incorporated the use of Dropbox where you sign-up for an account through Dropbox and get free Apple iPad storage on the web.
Dropbox for free iPad app lets you upload movies, songs, pictures and books from your iPad and save them in this free iPad storage. With Wi-Fi connection, you can access your files from anywhere in the world through drop box. Uploading your files from iPad is free and this helps you save a lot of files when your iPad memory is limited.
A businessperson will find Dropbox for free iPad app very useful when on business trips across the world. It allows you to save your PDF files as well as MS-Office documents that you will use in your presentations together with Power-point. Dropbox gives you extra space to save video clips of your family and friends from your camera and when you are away from home, you can login and feel at home wherever you are. This app gives an amazing interface that is optimized for you to access all your files through your iPad and also for uploading files.
The iPad has a large screen hence allowing you to set a landscape mode where you view all your documents which are towards the right side and a navigation task-bar on the left. The app also allows you to view in a portrait mode. To open your files in Dropbox you need to have Wi-Fi connection but there one feature that is outstanding about this app: you can mark a file as your favorite and when you go offline, you can still view all the content of this marked file on your iPad.
Dropbox has given you the freedom to allocate to an extent of only 1GB storage for your offline use. This simply means that you can mark items in your Dropbox while you are online as your favorite and make sure they are only 1GB and then sign-out of Dropbox and watch movies, songs and read from your iPad offline.
Free iPad Dropbox application works the same way Dropbox works in a PC. You can upload songs, videos, books or documents in your account and then send to your friends through e-mails. You can share the links and you can also delete the files when you want.
To edit your documents when they are in Dropbox, you are required to purchase an editor that does not come with the free 2GB storage. Dropbox for free iPad app views the following files without problems: images (gif, tiff and jpeg), movies (.mp4, .mov and .m4v), music (wav, mp3), MS-word, Excel documents, Power-point Presentation, Standard files of .txt and .rtf, Adobe PDF and web pages (.html and .htm).





