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.

Where is

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

In this post I will go through the core addons I use (I might use some more here and there but these are the ones I find the most useful).

Addons I use

Written by: Natan Žabkar

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As most of us, I've been struggling with finding the "perfect" editor. For me, that meant an editor that could be used for many different languages (C, Python, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, ... ), could also be used for "normal" use (Markdown, RST, LaTeX), would start up fast and generally be fast enough so I didn't have to wait around for it and could optionally be extended with various plugins.

Furthermore, I'd like the "out of the box" functionality to be good, and if at all possible, it should be easy to synchronise my settings across devices. Working under multiple platforms would also be a plus, since I couldn't

With this post, my blog is officially open for business. It will primarily be used for Python related stuff and I am working on some tutorials to put on here. The first one is already up so feel free to go read it and leave your comments!

For the more technically inclined, an explanation of how the blog is set up.

• Built by Blogofile, a Python static website compiler
• Twitter Bootstrap 3 for responsiveness
• Disqus for comments
• Git on GitHub for version control

I use two repositories on GitHub, one for the source and the second one for the generated source. The generated source