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A Useful Cloud-to-Cloud Photo Manager?
When this site first came to my attention, I was intrigued. It seemed pretty obvious that the system is certainly useful, and solves a particular problem very well. I just couldn't work out precisely who it's useful for, or which problem it solves. The home page looks pretty but isn't particularly helpful. Indeed, most of the text on the home page fails to make it clear exactly what the system does.
A little more digging, however, brought results. The best place to find out what Dropico does is by reading the user testimonials on the site, and by checking out their demo videos. In fact, the videos at http://static.dropico.com/site/dropico-videos are so useful that it's best you start there, and only click through to the home page when you've viewed them.
So, what's the point of Dropico? Well, let's start by working out precisely what problem it is aiming to solve. Which is, it seems, that we all have lots of photos stored online in various cloud-based systems. These might include Picasa, Gmail, Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, MySpace, Bebo, Photobucket and so on. Which makes keeping track of those pictures, and moving them between different systems, rather difficult.
And that's where Dropico helps. Got a picture somewhere in your Facebook account that you want to copy to Flickr? Just bring up both systems in your Dropico screen and drag the required pictures from one pane to the other. Has someone mailed you a picture to your Gmail account that you want to use in Flickr? Again, just load up the 2 apps inside Dropico and drag the picture across.
There are other strings to Dropico's bow, such as image touch-up and editing abilities, and an app for your mobile device that lets you sync your pictures to it. But it's really the cloud-to-cloud stuff that will appeal. At least, to those who are rapidly discovering that a widely distributed picture collection makes for great security but proves rather difficult to keep track of.

If there's a free program or web service that you reckon qualifies as a hot find, let me know at http://www.techsupportalert.com/content/submit-product-review.htm.
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