Dropboxer

After another long hiatus...

I wanted to write something about one of my on-going projects. Yes, finally I have been able to take out some time for hobby stuff!

Have been toying around with a lot of languages recently: Perl, Java, VB.NET etc...most of them I am just learning by twiddling around. Another cool language I am working on is basic4android, but I will talk about that later.

Dropboxer is a desktop client for dropbox. The reason I started working on this was because I was not happy with the way the default dropbox client works. I am not interested in a 'sync'able cloud solution, rather an integrated solution to which I can upload and download from very easily. I'd rather just right-click and do 'Send to Dropbox' and away it goes. I dont want to sync all my 2 GB of dropbox space all the time unnecessarily. Its fine by me, if it is in the cloud, I dont want it duplicated on my HDD.

So there...that is the hypothesis. There are a few other cool features I am going to add and hopefully a mobile client for Android too.

This is being developed in VB.NET. It uses the Dropnet library by Damian Karzon.This can be found here: http://dkdevelopment.net/what-im-doing/dropnet/

To make sure credit is given where due: It also uses the RestSharp API and OAuth library.

Nevertheless it is a very easy thing to use.