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Did you know that there are still people who carry their assignments around on a USB drive? It’s a risky game. Half the time you forget to bring it; the other half you leave it in a library computer. Awesome.

Save yourself the pain by signing up for Dropbox. It’s a simple but powerful service that may revolutionise the way you store data. Dropbox is cloud storage, plain and simple. It’s your USB drive that you can access from anywhere with Internet. There’s an app for your computer (including most main Linux distros) and your phone, and you can access your files through dropbox.com if you need to.

Start out with 2GB of free storage, which you can increase by completing various tasks (e.g. referring a friend to Dropbox). If you have a Samsung Galaxy or Note, you probably already have 50GB of free storage just waiting for you.

Aside from simple storage, you can do a few nifty things with Dropbox. Set it up to sync photos from your phone so that you have them backed up. Share a folder with a friend, or your mum, to send files between each other. If you’re the flatmate in charge of the responsible stuff, set up a shared folder to store your tenancy agreement, copies of bills and what-have-you.

See? Revolutionary. If you haven’t tried cloud storage yet, get Dropbox and let your USB drives gather dust.