Dropbox continues to play an important part in my day-to-day computer activities. I thought I’d share details of a recent tweak that I think makes it even easier to use, and another example of how Dropbox makes life with multiple computers so much better. See my earlier post for an introduction to Dropbox.
The computers
I’m primarily a Windows user. There are two computers that I regularly use at home, both running Windows XP. I have a laptop where I do most of my stuff. The family desktop is where I mainly do the computer admin but also sometimes some of my own things that would normally be done on the laptop. I also have an Ubuntu Linux environment on the laptop, running in VirtualBox. All three environments have Dropbox installed for my login.
The tweak: keeping things simple
I’ve been learning Ruby programming recently, using a DOS command prompt window to execute commands from within my project folder. I use a sub-folder in My Dropbox to store all of this work, making it accessible on my PC, as well as providing a backup in the cloud. All good stuff.
The annoying thing is, when using the DOS command window, the directory path displayed at the command prompt is so long:
C:\Documents and Settings\Tom\My Documents\My Dropbox\dev\Ruby\pickaxe>
That’s 71 chars before the “>”. (more…)
