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Buying a Chromebook doesn’t necessarily mean you need to make Google Drive your cloud-storage boo. There is no reason to severe a long and meaningful relationship with Dropbox just because Google Drive is baked into Google‘s Chrome OS. You can always access Dropbox via the Web on a Chromebook, but a better way is to …

Here’s our roundup of the best apps to help you with schoolwork, coursework, study and, of course, actually getting up on time. EasyBib (Android, iOS) As anyone who’s ever written an essay knows, bibliographies are a massive pain. So take the work out of keeping track of your references with EasyBib. It even lets you scan book barcodes to automatically …

Dropbox has long allowed you to make files available offline, letting you access files on your phone or tablet when you’re out of Wi-Fi range or without a cell signal. Now, it’s letting mobile users designate entire folders for offline access. As long as you’re paying for Dropbox, that is. The new offline folders are available to Dropbox Pro, Business …

Now playing: Watch this: Scan old printed photos easily with Google’s PhotoScan… 2:04 Get ready to backfill your Google Photos library. Or just improve your next attempt at Throwback Thursday. Google has a new PhotoScan app for scanning old photos that creates vastly improved results over merely snapping a photo of a photo. Unlike the other scanner apps I’ve used …

With iOS 10, Apple redesigned the lock screen and got rid of the slide-to-unlock gesture. Now, instead of unlocking your phone, swiping right takes you to the Today view where you can glance at and interact with widgets. You can also access these same widgets on an unlocked phone by swiping right on your home screen, but they are most …

No longer content simply to be a file repository in the cloud, Dropbox updated its iOS app to help business users get more done on their iPhone or iPad. Dropbox for iOS now has its own Messages app, and it lets you sign PDFs without touching Adobe, among a number of other features. Let’s take a look at the new …

With MacOS Sierra, you can sync your Desktop and Document folders to iCloud Drive, but if you are a Dropbox devotee, you can get the same functionality without adding to the number of cloud services you use. Dropbox offers the ability to sync folders between it and your Mac. Here’s how to set it up. First, install the Dropbox app …

MacOS Sierra introduced two iCloud Drive features that are certainly convenient but are also certain to put you over the free 5GB iCloud storage limit. MacOS Sierra’s ability to sync your Desktop and Document folders to iCloud Drive and to optimize your Mac’s storage to free up some space will likely exceed 5GB sooner rather than later. An upgrade to …

Now playing: Watch this: 3 ways to take faster screenshots in Windows 10 2:07 Using Windows, you’d think taking screenshots is simple. There is a button dedicated to this on almost every keyboard called the Print Screen key (abbreviated as PrtSc or PrtScn). Pressing this key captures the entire screen (or multiple screens if you use more than one monitor) …

Cloud storage veteran Dropbox officially entered the online document collaboration space with its new service, Paper, which was announced last October. Today, Dropbox opened the beta up to the public, sans waitlist, and released beta versions of Paper for Android and iOS. Paper is pitted against some very well-known and widely adopted services, such as Google Docs, Microsoft Office and …