{"id":5335,"date":"2012-01-13T11:14:41","date_gmt":"2012-01-13T10:14:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tokao.com\/?p=5335"},"modified":"2012-01-13T11:14:41","modified_gmt":"2012-01-13T10:14:41","slug":"insync-it-is-ok-to-break-up-with-dropbox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/2012\/01\/13\/insync-it-is-ok-to-break-up-with-dropbox\/","title":{"rendered":"insync: it is ok to break up with dropbox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cloud.norai.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Insync-Sync-your-life-with-Google-Docs.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5336\" title=\"Insync   Sync your life with Google Docs\" src=\"https:\/\/cloud.norai.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Insync-Sync-your-life-with-Google-Docs-425x321.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"425\" height=\"321\" \/><\/a>I heard about insync on twitter not too long ago.<\/p>\n<p>It caught my attention the fact they sell themselves as a Dropbox killer, I had to try.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/insynchq.com\" target=\"_blank\">Insync <\/a>(http:\/\/insynchq.com) is, like Dropbox, a little program you can install in a mac or pc even if you are not an admin (which for my work laptop is a must) and that has for objective to sync a local folder among your computers, with a copy online&#8230; but with a huge difference from services such as <a href=\"http:\/\/dropbox.com\" target=\"_blank\">Dropbox <\/a>or <a href=\"http:\/\/sugarsync.com\" target=\"_blank\">SugarSync<\/a>, or<a href=\"http:\/\/box.net\" target=\"_blank\"> box.net<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>First: it is free. But sure, Dropbox is free for a couple of Gigs too, and SugarSync free for 5Gb&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Second: it uses GDrive or Google Docs as storage and online sharing and versioning&#8230; so:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">They don&#8217;t have to host anything<\/span>, and you pay Google for storage.<\/p>\n<p>The difference with Dropbox is that for instance a 50Gb with Dropbox costs $9.99 per month, and a 20Gb with Google costs $5&#8230;. a year!!! or 80Gb for $20 a year!!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>For $200 per year Dropbox gives you 100Gb<\/li>\n<li>For $100 per year Google gives you 200Gb<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For me this is a no\u00a0brainier. I was already using Google docs, so I switched to insync.<\/p>\n<p>I can edit documents locally or online, I can set up sharing permissions on google docs&#8230; it works like charm.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulation guys!! insync rocks.<\/p>\n<p>Now, how is this Philippines based company going to survive?&#8230; we will see&#8230; maybe Google buys it&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I heard about insync on twitter not too long ago. It caught my attention the fact they sell themselves as a Dropbox killer, I had to try. Insync (http:\/\/insynchq.com) is, like Dropbox, a little program you can install in a mac or pc even if you are not an admin (which for my work laptop [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,2,20],"tags":[190,9,206,12,207],"class_list":["post-5335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal","category-technology","category-url","tag-dropbox","tag-google","tag-insync","tag-review","tag-sugarsync"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5335\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}