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To me, thumbdrives have become obsolete since the advent of one of the greatest software that’s been created in recent history: Dropbox. It’s true that what they’re offering isn’t exactly new; a lot of companies already offer “cloud storage” before Dropbox was even conceptualized. But Dropbox does it lightyears better; they have super-fast and elegant integration with Windows and Mac and recently they introduced an iPhone application as well.

One feature of Dropbox that is not found in most cloud storage solutions is the built-in “version control” system; you can revert to an older version of a file stored in Dropbox in an event it gets corrupted. I have used this extensively since I started saving my mRemote config file on Dropbox. If you’ve been a long-time user of this venerable application (the last version before they merged with VisionApp), you know that from time to time, mRemote “forgets” your configuration, and if you have about 20+ connections saved on the config file, finding out one day that it’s all been deleted could be nerve-wrecking. So with Dropbox’s version control, I can just revert to an older version of my mRemote config file if I launch mRemote without my existing connections.

Speaking of cloud storage. I am keeping an eye of this “P2P cloud storage” code-named “Tahoe.” I think it’s interesting in the sense that it could potentially compete/replace BitTorrent.