I’m a huge fan of DropBox.  I use it daily for personal file storage and for sharing files with others.  I even made a short video a few weeks ago showing how it helped me stay more efficient during the day.

When I heard they had an app coming out, I was mildly excited.  However, I just couldn’t figure out what it could that would be very useful.  They’ve just written more about what’s included, and now I can’t wait to get my hands on it!

In particular, this app will:

• Allow you to access you files on the go. Kind of a given, I think.  However, you can stream music and movies from your DropBox to your phone.  Nice!
• Download files for offline viewing. If you make them “favorites”, you can view them even when you don’t have a connection.  This is very much like the latest version of the Evernote app, and it works well.
• Share links to files in your Dropbox. You can snap a photo on your phone, toss it in Dropbox, and then share a public link with a friend.  From what I can gather, you can put these in a private folder in your DropBox, but it’ll provide a temporary link to your friends to grab it.  See the screenshots below for an example.
• Photo galleries

All in all, it sounds like a great little app.  They submitted it roughly 10 days ago, so it should show up in the store sometime next week.

DropBox app is coming soon is a post from: iPhone App Tips

Evernote 3.1 for the iPhone has been released, and it’s a very nice upgrade.  The update officially includes:

Massive speed improvements!
- Speedier snapshot note creation
- Much faster searching
- Clip web pages from the built-in web browser
- Add Evernote email address to iPhone contacts
- Manually sync your notes any time
- Lots of bug fixes

The part I like the best is the “speedier snapshot note creation”.  I take a lot of snapshot notes, and it was always very slow.  I can confirm that it’s much faster now.

No big new features here, but it’s a great little update to get!

Evernote 3.1 released is a post from: iPhone App Tips