Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter

Publish Your Genealogy Database on the Web with Dropbox

Would you like to publish your genealogy information on the web at no cost? Sure, there are dozens of ways to do that, but most of those methods result in hosting on someone else's web site and having advertisements inserted into your g...

(+) How to Encrypt All Your Data Being Stored on Dropbox

The following Plus Edition article is written by and copyright by Dick Eastman. I love the program called Dropbox and have written about it several times. You can read my earlier articles if you start at http://goo.gl/dWzhB. Judging by...

(+) How to Encrypt All Your Data Being Stored on Dropbox

The following Plus Edition article is written by and copyright by Dick Eastman. Note: This is an updated version of an article I published last year. Several details have changed since then so I have updated the article.I love the prog...

Update: Dropbox: Why You Need This Program

When I recently purchased a new computer, I immediately installed several programs that I would hate to live without: Firefox, Evernote, OpenOffice, and Dropbox. All of them are free programs.Dropbox is available for Windows, Macintosh,...

How To Easily Synchronize Folders Outside Dropbox

I love Dropbox and have written about it several times. See http://goo.gl/rnZVf for my past articles about this excellent online backup and file copying program for Macintosh and Windows. I know from comments posted here that a lot of ne...

Dropbox Version 1.0

I have written a number of times about Dropbox, a free program I think every Windows, Macintosh, and Linux user should use. You can see my earlier articles at http://goo.gl/T4nOL. One drawback to the program is that it has always been i...

Sharing Files with Dropbox

Sending files by email works well for millions of computer owners. However, what do you do if the file is too large for email? A few days ago, I wrote about one possible solution, Transfer Big Files, at http://blog.eogn.com/eastmans_onli...

Dropbox Will Eliminate Public Folders for New Users

I have written often about Dropbox, a great service for copying files from one computer to another, or even to multiple computers. Dropbox also can perform backups of your most important files. DropBox also has many other features, inclu...

Security Problem at DropBox

I love DropBox and use it daily, usually several times a day. I have also written often about the need for online security; so, I was disappointed to read that DropBox had a major security problem yesterday. The company installed a soft...

Dropbox: File Synching and Sharing Made Easy

I have written before (see http://goo.gl/NqyQ) about Dropbox, my favorite program for synching files through the Internet and for making sure I have always backed up the latest version of critical files within seconds after creation or m...