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yeah now thats a clear explanation Mark! shit i didnt know what i ve been missing,ive been just using it to access my personal files when im in other countries. 2 free GBs is quite generous for that as well. Yes Sjaak has been telling me about word press i think im gonna move all my webs into that soon. There is also Joomla here which ive been eyeballing,dont want a complex program,hows wordpress in that department? thanx man! Luis On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 10:37 PM, mark francombe <mark@markfrancombe.com> wrote: > I actually dont think it IS any good for hosting a website... TBH Im not > sure if you can even link to an image... well of course you can cos you >can > mak a gallery, but as for hosting html or php or whatever... I dont >think > so... > You need a website? Why look any further than Wordpress? Personally I >think > it saved my life... although I do have my own server space where I host > Wordpress, and that is a bit fiddly to set up. > > No... Dropbox is for sharing files with people, or Backup. > > Heres how it works: > > Lets say you were gonna collaborate on a song with Um... lets say Fabio.. > You start the track in Logic (or course... what else) and save it to your > Dropbox folder. Now this folder is ON YOUR MACHINE, very important >that... > Just a regular folder. BUT.. Its a dropbox folder, so it copys > (automatically) all those groovy guitar lick files, and the Logic >project up > onto the World Wide Web (the internet for you youngsters). Now he gives > Fabio access (by going to the website) to that folder. Fabio looks on HIS > machine in HID Dropbox folder... and sure enough.. like magic.. there is >a > folder there called Louies Song. Fabio opens the project, remember its ON > HIS MACHINE, so no internet laggy shit... and plays some sensitive piano > shit.. Now they want some red hot drumming, certainly not some crappy old > loops or drum machine, so they add Rick to the Shared folder, and he does > his stuff... > > At this point, Louie wants all the control back, its HIS song, and sure >as > fuck no one else is gonna mix it.. so he deletes them from the share, and > they're files no longer update. > > Now there MIGHT be a time when both have the same file open.. what >happens? > well when one of them saves, it gets synched on the server, when the next > saves, its changes the name to Louies Song_conflicted copy... Its a >fuckup, > someone loses, but with a bit of clever copying and pasting you should be > OK. Its certainly better than the files trying to merge, which some > versioning systems try to do... > > > Its gonna totally revolutionize the way I am working with my friend in > Japan, if only the balding fucker would get of his fat ass and do some > frigging work... > > > Mark > > > > > -- > mark francombe > www.markfrancombe.com > www.ordoabkhao.com > twitter @markfrancombe > http://vimeo.com/user825094 > http://www.looop.no >