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office and you find a nice torrent that you want to download then you won't have to wait
till you get home to download it, you can simply add the torrent to your Dropbox file from
your office and your torrent client will automatically start downloading the torrent from your
Dropbox folder. This way you won't have to come home and wait for the download to fin-
ish.
Dropbox as Your Data Traveler
Although it's really easy to connect your cell phone to your computer via USB cable and
share data but sometimes you find yourself in situations where you don't have a USB. In
situations like these Dropbox can be of great help. You can use your Dropbox to serve as a
data traveler between your phone and computer. This way you won't even need a USB cable
for your phone so you won't have to worry about buying or finding a lost USB. Whether you
are flashing your ROM or installing an APK file to your phone you can simply upload it to
your Dropbox via your computer and simply download it from your Dropbox app on your
phone. It's as simple as that. No need to connect your phone via USB or do any other thing
and in many cases using Dropbox as a data traveler between your devices is much more ef-
fective and faster than using a USB cable.
This is only a glimpse of what Dropbox can do if used correctly. Obviously you can do a lot
more things with the help of Dropbox if you want to but these tricks are the most essential
ones that almost everyone should know. These tricks will make your everyday use of Drop-
box much more fun. This is for this chapter. In the upcoming chapter you will be introduced
to the tricks that can be used on your mobile phones to make your Dropbox app much more
effective.
