drop.io Gets Streaming and Realtime Media

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The excellent web service drop.io has recently received the most significant added feature upgrade since its launch. From their announcement:
drop.io is now fully realtime enabled. this means realtime rich-media streaming collaboration and chat like never before. in one click set up a drop, invite participants, and seamlessly exchange any media on the fly. [...]

Multitasking Mondays: Access Files on Your iPhone

The best kind of multitasking system is the one available to you anytime and anywhere. In today’s electronic world, that often requires having access to your files. What articles do you need to read? Or maybe you have some sermons or lectures you’d like to listen to? Regardless of your specific needs, if for whatever [...]

How I use drop.io for Sermons, Papers, and GTD

The web service drop.io is an excellent site that allows you to store just about anything you might want—text, pictures, audio, video, phone calls, etc.—in a secure, easily accessible “drop.” This may sound pretty basic, and it is, but what makes drop.io worth your time and attention are all the fancy features surrounding it. Let [...]

Twitter and drop.io Pair Up

Drop.io now integrates quite nicely with Twitter. Read about it, and watch a video, here.

Web 2.0 and Teaching

I have been thinking more and more lately about harnessing online tools for education and the classroom. I have grown disillusioned by “traditional” software; its usually cumbersome, has little if any social emphasis, and is expensive and not open-source.
In the course of searching for alternatives I came across this post, which has sparked my interest. [...]

Drop.io Gets a Plugin

I recently posted a description of the fabulous and easy-to-use drop.io. Well, it just better with a Firefox plugin. Check out their site here.

Sharing Large Files

A friend and I recently ran into a little problem: we wanted to share files with each other, but the files in question were larger than could be sent via email. Sure you can mail a CD, or meet up for coffee with a USB drive, but those options require both time and trouble.

Enter Drop.io. [...]