Dropbox has quickly become the must-have app and service for many people. Launched in 2007, about the same time as the original iPhone, Dropbox is a wonderful way to synchronize files between computers of all types.
According to Michael Arrington at TechCrunch, the company is announcing that Dropbox now has 25 million users, up from just 4 million a year ago. The numbers are astounding -- over 200 million files are saved to Dropbox daily, about a million every five minutes.
Concurrent with the announcement of this user milestone, Dropbox has updated their self-named app to version 1.4. Part of the update brings the action buttons (Dropbox, Favorites, Uploads, Settings) back to the bottom of the user interface in a tabbed fashion, but the new version of the app improves on the way that uploads from the iOS app are handled.
It's now possible to upload many photos and videos from the camera roll to a specific folder in Dropbox. That functionality is useful and seems like a logical extension of the way that the Dropbox app works, but the other new capability really adds usefulness to the app. Dropbox can now accept direct uploads from external apps.
For example, I received a Word document in Mail.app this morning from a travel operator in Dubrovnik, Croatia. I wanted to save it into my Dropbox "Travel" folder, so I downloaded the document in Mail, tapped on it to "Open In," and there was a new item on the list of usable apps for Dropbox. By saying that I wanted to open the Word document in Dropbox, the upload interface appeared and I was able to point the document to my specific folder. This method of adding documents from a number of iPhone and iPad apps is quite speedy, and it works in any app that uses the "Open In" dialog.
Dropbox Version 1.4 is available now as a free download from the App Store.
[via MacStories]
Dropbox app updated as the service hits 25 million users originally appeared on TUAW on Mon, 18 Apr 2011 12:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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