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10+ Best Apps For Your Dropbox

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It’s possible to sync Google Docs to Dropbox, automatically send Gmail attachments to Dropbox, play music in a browser from your Dropbox music files, encrypt your Dropbox, easily host a website or blog in Dropbox, collect URLs and web clippings to Dropbox and to automate file syncs between all of your social networks and Dropbox. You can even view all of your Dropbox files alongside your Google Docs, Box files and FTP files in the one web interface. If you want to know the best apps to do all of these things, then read on.

via 10+ Best Apps For Your Dropbox.

Here‘s another top 12 list.

I thought DropBoxFiler has potential in that it makes using the cloud transparent to the user.  I’m not sure how well it works in practice however and this seems rather trivial to implement on a nix box.  So far no Dropbox apps stand out as having much value added over the standard Dropbox UI.

So how does it work? Well, Dropboxifier simply fools applications into reading and writing directly from Dropbox! Saved games and profile data can be placed in Dropbox, a symbolic link put in its place (which is kind of like a shortcut at the file system level), and applications/games won’t even notice – they will read and write directly to your Dropbox folder.

Application Development Now Worth More Than $9 Billion Globally

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According to Gartner’s “Market Trends: Application Development (AD) Software, Worldwide, 2012-2016” report, cloud is changing the way applications are designed, tested, and deployed, resulting in a significant shift in development priorities.

“The trend is compelling enough to force traditional AD vendors to ‘cloud-enable’ their existing offerings and position them as a service to be delivered through the cloud,” said Asheesh Raina, principal research analyst at Gartner.

via Application Development Now Worth More Than $9 Billion Globally | Dr Dobb’s.

Servers Ultimate

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Run a DLNA, DNS, DDNS, Email, FTP, Proxy, SMS, Time, Web and/or WebDAV server!

Run your own free DLNA, DNS, Dynamic DNS, Email, FTP(S), Proxy, SMS Gateway, Time, HTTP(S) and/or (secure) WebDAV server (yes, 10 different servers)! From one all-including app: Servers Ultimate. You can even run multiple instances of the same server type at the same time for most! We can’t list all the features because of the limited amount of text, so below you can find a summary of most of the features.

via Servers Ultimate – Android Apps on Google Play.

Much Ado About Nothing: The Truth Behind Netflix’s API Changes

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It’s mainly attempting to stop developers from becoming middlemen that resell its API technology to other companies. So a Fanhattan iPad app sold to consumers is OK, but licensing out its white-label search and discovery platform to a consumer electronics manufacturer is not. That is, unless it doesn’t want to include Netflix titles in the search.

via Much Ado About Nothing: The Truth Behind Netflix’s API Changes | TechCrunch.

The Artificial Life of the App Store – the Best Strategy to Succeed

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First they proposed five types of developer, and you won’t find it hard to recognize them:

  • S0 – the innovator always builds apps with a wide range of novel features.S1- the milker who implements slight largely unnecessary variations on a single app.
  • S2 – the optimizer who simply releases improvements on their most successful app.
  • S3 – the copycat simply copies the best apps in the market.
  • S – the flexible developer who adopts whichever strategies seems good at the moment.

via The Artificial Life of the App Store – the Best Strategy to Succeed.

Voxer

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Turn your phone into a Walkie Talkie

Voxer.

Hmmmm. Again with the walkie talkies.

Voxer is a Walkie Talkie application for smartphones. Voxer lets you send instant audio, text and photo messages to your friends (one or more!). Messages stream live as you talk and your friends join you live or listen later.

Voxer is available for iPhone, iPod touch, iPad and Android devices.