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Welcome to this week's tech tips video, brought to you by the ATG Scholars. We're
taking a look at Cloud Storage; a popular way to store information such as files, pictures,
and documents online. This service offers the comfort of having backup files of important
documents away from your personal storage system, as well as the accessibility to access
files away from your personal computer; such as netbooks, phones, and alternative computers
you may use for work or school.
The first option we'll be looking at is Dropbox. This free of charge service allows
you to save files to your dropbox account, which will then become available to all devices
(?) associated with the account and through the dropbox website itself.
Sharing documents and content with others via dropbox is easy. Invite others to a specific
folder in your dropbox which will offer them the same accessibility as you have, or send
specific links to files contained in your dropbox storage.
Dropbox will also act as a backup for you, which allows you to safely and securely store
files to a cloud location, protecting you from accidents or loss. You can even undo
mistakes and recover deleted files that you've accidentally trashed.
You'll be able to work on files from the home or office, and save the changes to dropbox.
Then when you're ready, pick them back up again at the coffee shop, or the classroom.
For school, work, hobbies and more, there's little reason why dropbox shouldn't be on
your radar for cloud storage.
Another exciting option for cloud storage outside of Dropbox is Google Drive, a rebranding
of Google Docs with some new and exiciting features. Google Drive is available as a free
service to anyone with a google or gmail account, and boasts some unique features amongst the
traditional storage services. It's easy to link up with your email or google+ account,
and has several benefits of ease and access.
Collaboration is a huge feature that Google Drive offers, which allows the user to create
new documents instantly, and have multiple people working together on the same document.
Changes are in real time, so you're constantly up to date with your colleagues. Drive allows
users to start discussions inside of collaborations, and even offers comment sections for those
projects you work on with multiple people.
Even without having a program installed on your computer, google drive can open up to
30 different file types inside of your browser. Google Drive and Dropbox are also integrated
with many popular mobile applications, to enhance the control you have over your files
wherever you go.
Explore Dropbox at dropbox.com, and check out Drive at drive.google.com. Take some time
to look through either of these free services, and get started today with cloud storage to
streamline your interests, be it work or play. Please keep in mind that non-University of
Kentucky cloud based services should not be used for HIPPA or FERPA protected content.
If you are working with such content, please request a university hosted Exchange account
from the UKIT service desk, which is detailed at http://www.uky.edu/ukit/help.
Thanks for viewing this video, and be sure to check out more like this at the ATG Scholars
blog, found here: https://www.uky.edu/acadtrain/techtips