Sync Stories is a column dedicated to our users. Each week, we showcase a different use case for BitTorrent Sync and the personal stories behind it. In this week’s edition: Entrepreneur Matt Henderson shares how Sync helps him organize files at home, from important documents to things that his entire family needs access to.
Backup Photos and Videos From Your Phone (Video)
Photos and videos take up a lot of space on our phones, especially with the resolution increasing with each new device that comes out. Typically when we think of backing up our files, it involves uploading them onto a cloud service.
File Sync for the “Nomad Worker”
Getting work done these days can often include little more than a laptop. It’s helped give rise to the nomad worker, an individual who’s not tied to a central location – working wherever it makes best sense (maybe they’re a freelancer, a remote worker, or self-employed). In this scenario, when a person does work anywhere/everywhere, […]
Work Together as a Team on Shared Assets (Video)
Work groups need easy tools to share and manage files. Data often gets pushed into locations that aren’t easily accessible by others, be it a physical server, or even a folder that’s only on your local device – with files too large to share successfully.
Creative Agency (Singley + Mackie) x (BitTorrent Sync)
Matt Singley is the CEO of Singley + Mackie, a creative digital agency based in Los Angeles with associates around the world: When I co-founded our agency in 2010, one of the core values we established right away was to let our employees and contractors be “intellectually green”, which often includes working remotely instead of in a central office. […]
All Your Folders, Across All Devices (Video)
When you create an account in the cloud, all your folders and files become instantly available across your personal devices; it’s quite convenient. Recently, we rolled out a new feature in Sync to make this available, in a fully private manner.
3 Ways a Videographer Can Use BitTorrent Sync
Multiple times, we’ve seen videographers and video production teams take to the product as an easy way for them to manage and share footage, which are often massive in size.
Syncs on a Plane: a no-Internet Use Case
One of the most amazing features of BitTorrent Sync is how easily it works over local networks (LAN), and therefore how it’s able to continue to function even without Internet access. Flying through the air in a metal tube is pretty amazing too, but what about a scenario that brings Sync’s local network capabilities to today’s business […]
Sync Stories: How a PhD Manages His Research Data
Sync Stories is a column dedicated to our users. Each week, we showcase a different use case for BitTorrent Sync and the personal stories behind it. In this week’s edition: Mark Wolf, a PhD candidate at the University of Illinois at Chicago, shares how he keeps his research work synced across devices (to be accessed […]
A Future Without Ports
As demonstrated with Apple’s latest MacBook design, we’re quickly moving to a future where everything is not only wireless, but portless. Over-the-air transfers are the norm right now for smaller files whether your recipient is across the room or across the country. Try to remember the last time someone gave you a single image or […]