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Drop-It! Offers Cloud Storage for iPhone Photos

Posted by Phillip Levin on August 2nd, 2011
iPhone App - Designed for iPhone, compatible with iPad

Drop-It! is a new app from Voxygen Limited that enables users to take photographs and automatically have them stored on Dropbox's cloud server.

Anyone who regularly takes photographs with their iPhone or iPod touch can relate to the truth that the files can add up quickly, taking up valuable space that could otherwise be devoted to a larger iTunes collection. Drop-It! addresses this issue by automatically sending all photographs to the all-covering cloud in the sky – or, really, just an account on Dropbox. This does two things for users. First of all, it saves space on their device. Second, it allows them to view their photos on any iOS device, Mac or PC. Like with all other cloud-based services, users can essentially take their photos with them anywhere they go.

The app has a few other extras in addition to its cloud services that make it worthwhile. For instance, users can name their photo files and create separate folders for optimum organization. They can also specify to save photos as either a PNG or JPEG file type.

While the iOS Drop-It! app costs $0.99 to download, access to the cloud itself is free. Users can sign up for an account on Dropbox, which Drop-It! uses, for free within the app itself.

"We built Drop It! because we needed an easier way to photograph sketches and whiteboards to share with the rest of our team," Voxygen Limited says of its app. "Using DropIt! we can now do this with one tap."

Drop-It! offers a promising service, but one can't help but wonder how useful it will be once Apple releases its iCloud this fall. Furthermore, this is hardly an original idea. There are numerous other apps already on the iTunes App Store that offer similar cloud storage, such as QuickShot. Only time will tell, of course.

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