Yesterday, at the start of the very first "X week", we looked at XBMC. Today, we will look at Dropbox, a could storage file synchronisation service.

Dropbox

Dropbox is a file hosting service that offers simple cloud storage and file synchronisation for average users as well as big companies. From a humble start in 2008 it grew faster then anyone could have predicted and hit 200M users on Nov 13, 2013. Even though it has many competitors like Google Drive, Microsoft SkyDrive and Box.net (and many, many others), Dropbox continues to stand at the top of the game.

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In an effort to actually post something here, I have decided to do a series of "X week" posts. Starting off with a "Python in the wide world week", I'll be exploring some interesting places where Python is used in the real world.

XBMC

What is XBMC?

XBMC is a free and open source media player developed by the XBMC foundation. While it was originally created as a media center for the original Xbox gaming console (hence the name XBox Media Center), it is now natively available on Windows, various Linux distributions, Mac OSX, Android, Raspberry Pi, iOS, Apple TV