Facebook Adds “Good Enough” File Sharing To All Groups. Dropbox Should Worry About Growth

Today Facebook begins rolling out file sharing to all Groups, and while it’s got many restrictions, it could be good enough to limit the long-term growth potential of cloud storage / file sharing services like Dropbox, iCloud, and Google Drive. Music and any copyright files aren’t allowed and file size is capped at 25mb, as Mashable first reported. But this is just the first version, and you can be sure Facebook will keep hacking away at it.

Samsung Galaxy S III owners to get 50GB of free Dropbox storage

10HTC One customers aren't the only people getting free Dropbox space to sweeten their smartphone purchase. Samsung has announced that anyone who buys and registers a Galaxy S III will have their Dropbox accounts expanded to 50GB for two years.

We're not sure whether buyers will see any special deals after that, but it's a good offer at least for the length of the standard smartphone contract.
What does make this slightly odd is that with Google Drive out, one of the best-known new Android phones is essentially coming bundled with a competitor's service. If the free storage trend keeps up, we'll have to see if Dropbox continues to be the tool of choice.

Source: theverge

Otixo Is a Convenient File Manager for Dropbox, Google Drive, SkyDrive, and All Your Other Cloud Services

If you're using more than one cloud storage service (hard not to, with all the free space being thrown around), managing your files between them can be tricky. Otixo gives you a centralized view of all your online files for easy copying and pasting between accounts from the web interface or through a mapped drive on your desktop. Otixo currently connects to Dropbox, Google Docs, Box, SkyDrive, SugarSync, Picasa, MobileMe, and Amazon S3. You can also add your own FTP or WebDav servers to connect to. Otixo doesn't store your files on its servers or save your login credentials—in most cases, that is (the SugarSync API seems to work differently than Dropbox, Google, and SkyDrive, but you can choose not to have your password saved in the service).
Once you connect your accounts, you've got an Explorer- or Finder-like view of all your files and can drag-and-drop them at will, as well as rename files, download to disk, share, and, for PDFs and images, preview the files online.

Drag-and-Drop To Automatically Encrypt Files in Google Drive Using Automator on Mac

OS X: Google Drive is finally here, promising awesome Dropbox-like online storage and file syncing, but also the same security and privacy caveats that come with storing information on cloud servers. Macworld offers this handy file encryption tool that works with Google Drive for drag-and-drop encrypting on your desktop.

Google Drive Launches - For Real!

After weeks of speculation, Google Drive launched today. As if trying to quell the disbelievers, Google's announcement blog post read "...yes, really" in the title. The long-rumored "cloud" based storage officially launched this afternoon, touting the ability to keep all your stuff in one place.

Download New Dropbox Beta For Android v2.0.9 With Automatic Uploads, Get Up To 5GB Of Extra Storage For Free

The guys behind the official Dropbox Android app have an enticing present for everyone to check out. They just released an experimental beta v2.0.9 that includes a brand new automatic Camera Upload feature. There are definitely third party apps out there that offer this same service, but it's nice to see the official version updating with some fresh new features.

Here's what you'll find:

• The app can now automatically upload photos and videos in the background using Wi-Fi or your data plan.
• No more size limit. So upload to your hearts content.
• If there are network issues, the upload will resume when those issues are resolved.
• Some performance improvements and bug fixes.
• You'll also get 500MB of free space on your first automatic photo upload.