Hello all

 

I recommend Dropbox as a useful free service for sharing files with people by using a link.

 

It involves signing up, installing Dropbox, placing your file in the public folder you’re given access and copying its URL to share – eg here’s the transcript of some of the tweets from the Science Communication Conference https://dl.dropbox.com/u/4000104/scc2010fullxscript.htm

 

You can invite a friend to a privately shared Dropbox folder area (not public, just between the two of you) and although the files are physically stored on your computer they are synchronised with the copy on Dropbox whenever you’re connected to the internet. This means that my copy of my Dropbox folder at work is identical to the one at home and with no effort from me. Files can be restored if accidentally deleted.

 

Up to 2GB is free I think, more than that and money needs to exchange hands.

 

I’ve been using it ever since I started at UCL in January and my colleagues introduced me to it. Using the ‘favorites’ function on the iPhone app it even lets me read documents / PDFs etc on my phone without an internet connection (it’s the only way I’ve found to actually save documents on to my phone* to be honest).

 

Jo

*ooh I must blog a ‘how to’ ;-)

 

Jo Brodie

Science Information Officer

Library and Information Team http://www.diabetes.org.uk/library

Diabetes UK (Mondays, Tuesdays and Fridays)

 

Get Serious - just add your name and email address to show your support at 

http://www.diabetes.org.uk/GetSerious

 

On Wednesdays and Thursdays I work on a separate project at UCL

Public Engagement Coordinator

CHI+MED project http://www.chi-med.ac.uk

UCL Interaction Centre, UCL.

 

 

From: Gillian Pepper [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 14 September 2010 11:24
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [PSCI-COM] Fwd: [REMINDER - LERN debate: Resuscitating Lamarck: Do we need a new evolutionary theory?]

 

Thanks Michael

 

That does help.  Apologies for the lack of detail.  PSCI-COM doesn't like attachments and I had (wrongly) assumed the text linked to the website.

 

Best

Gillian

On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 6:47 PM, Michael Kenward <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

Does this help:

http://londonevolutionarynetwork.wordpress.com/

Found with Google.

MK

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