Before Dropbox became popular, there was iDisk, which was Apple’s cloud storage system. iDisk allowed you to store documents, pictures, QuickTime files, and PDFs in one cloud-based “drive ...

Dropbox Transfer encrypts the files you share to protect them from unwanted access.

We recently went through some of the best ways to share files with a nearby computer, and many of you noted that Dropbox can still be a viable syncing method, even over Wi-Fi. Here's how to set it up.

Another benefit Dropbox is touting is file size: you can send up to 100GB of files in one go with Transfer.