I've written about Google Docs here a few months ago, and have to admit I haven't actually used it since, although I still love its potential for embedding forms such as book recommendations onto library websites.
With nothing really to add to my previous post about wikis, I will skip over that and get straight on to exploring Dropbox.
Dropbox is such a useful application for sharing documents between computers, and acts as a great back up for those documents you are currently working on. What I love about it is that you have a Dropbox folder on your computer where the files are stored, so that you don't have to log in to the website every time you want to access a file. And when you want to access the file from a different computer, you can login to the Dropbox website to see whatever is in your Dropbox folder. A friend gave me a handy tip about using Synctoy to synchronise folders for Dropbox. For example, if you are working on multiple documents for a project that are saved in the same folder, you can use Synctoy to synchronise that folder with your Dropbox folder. You can either set it up to synchronise automatically, or click 'run' every time you want it to synchronise. This saves having to remember exactly which files you want to update to Dropbox. You can control whether it synchronises both ways, or just the one way, and whether or not deleted files are included in this.
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