Dropbox Allows Easy Public Sharing

So, what's new in this and why is this on our site? Lets start by the latter. We are covering this news as Dropbox updated the Android app as well and we use (both web and app version) the service a whole lot than we initially thought we would. As for what's new in Dropbox providing a share feature; well we agree Dropbox seems to have always had the share feature but there is a subtle upgrade to this feature that we just loved the moment we noticed it!

Previously you were allowed to share folders with people who were already using Dropbox and thus you could just provide them with the shared folder with permissions either to only read or make changes as and when they required. Now you could share a folder, a file or an image just like it was a public item; and to anyone you wish to share it with!
That's essentially making it public!!
What's more that this shared item, because of the way its been shared, can only be read by the person it has been shared with. So, she essentially can't change anything in the folder being shared. And it works like we always wanted things to, without you required to make any update to the Dropbox that you may be using on your personal computer. Here are a few screen captures from our system.

Its as easy as this, just right click on the folder or file you want to share and from the Dropbox submenu choose Get Link. The moment you choose this option you will, in your browser, see a public view of the shared folder or file. Copy the URL from the browser and you are ready to share it with whosoever you may want to!!

And don't worry, they provided a nice way to remove the sharing if and ever you wanted to do it. Just go to your Dropbox site home page and click on the Links icon no the left vertical bar. You will see a page similar to this where you may click on Remove to do the obvious!

Easy as you would like!!

And the same updates are available on the Dropbox' Android app as well. Just the similar features as you see in the screen captures from our Android device:

Don't ask us what if you see some copyright material in the publicly shared folder. The guys at Dropbox already took care of it ;). While viewing the shared item, you will see a small copyright flag at the bottom right corner, clicking on which should take you to this page where you should be able to report any infringement.

Enjoy the new feature and Happy Crunching!!