Indeed useful stuff thank you umar bhaiya On 5/25/13, suhail asim <suhail.pak...@gmail.com> wrote: > thanks umair bhai, > really nice and helping effort for us. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Umair Ijaz > To: PBCLovers ; list ; accessindia ; blindgeekzone ; blindwindows ; > blindt...@lists-blindtech.list.info > Cc: keyboardus...@googlegroups.com > Sent: Saturday, May 25, 2013 5:17 PM > Subject: [scholars_learners] an overview of dropbox old and new desktop > application > > > > assalam o alaikum and hello friends, > > today I would like to write an overview of old and new dropbox. > this article is the result of my own experiences with the app. so, if > there is anything which i explained wrongly then please correct it! > and this article is for beginners, geeks and advanced users always > have no issues so advanced user pleas be patient and also lovers of > wualla or other apps. > > now starts the article. if anyone's internet speed is good then new > dropbox is very easy for him not a problem! hmm yes I am saying right > it is an ease. how? yes the answer to this how is that when you > install dropbox and there is no public link in it by default then most > probably you have desktop application of dropbox version above than > 1.7 . especially in the series of 2. one thing is that download old > dropbox 1.4 from the following link. old dropbox is good for people > like me. link is : > https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/42889981/Dropbox%201.4.17.exe > I have performed a number of experiments. out of these ten or so > experiments , one time even with this same set up file I was unable to > get the public folder. might be possible I skip some steps or dropbox > updates automatically now but this way worked for me. so give it a try > and let me know. now suppose there is no public folder despite of your > hard work then no big deal. put any file you want to share into > dropbbox folder then press application key on it and then dropbox > submenu and arrow right or enter to open it. now down arrow and get > share link option. hit enter on that. wait for a while. on my machine > it takes roughly a minute to launch this web page that is the reason I > did not like this. but if you have less issues with jaws then you will > find this also quick. now alt tab to check the page. page will be like > the name of the uploaded file -dropbox, now down arroe to navigate on > this page. e for edit field write the email id of the person whom you > want to send the mail and then hit enter on send button . no need to > copy the link it will send the link to the person whom you want to > send. in one sense dropbox has shortened the process of first going to > dropbox folder copying the link then go to gmail site then compose > mail then write the mail id then message ........ o o o o , so, now it > is easy . > > yes, another way to share the link is that when you come to that > webpage which dropbox opens up then press alt d and ctrl a to select > the address of that page and ctrl c to copy and paste it where you > want. in this case you manually copied the link. > > *. one more way is also there! > when webpage comes up now press ctrl end to go to the end of the page. > there is actually the download link of the file. in previous two > methods , the person whom you want to send the file will get the link > to that page and when he will hit enter on the file then will see > that page and will arrow down to the link at the bottom of the page > and will hit enter on that and then will get IDM prompts window to > start download . but if you apply the third way which you are > currently reading then you will send a link and the person who is the > receiver of this link will hit enter on the link and the IDM prompt > window will comes up asking for start download as it was the case in > old dropbox times on the receiver end. so, how to get this link?? > > as I said that ctrl end to the bottom of the page and focus on the > link which is the name of your shared or uploaded file , press > application key and hit enter on create shortcut , it will place the > shortcut on your clipboard. paste any where which you want or send to > the person. if you look at the link, as I keenly do for all types of > web links and mail ids, you will come to know that this link is > somewhat different from the traditional links in the ending part of > the link. any how it works well. it was the overview of dropbox , hope > so i will be able to clear doubts of most of the users. > > -- > > " Don't let a little dispute injure a great friendship" > > Umair Ijaz, Scholar for Scholars > webpage: www.lcddp.org/umair > > skype: umair.ijaz44 > facebook: http://facebook.com/umair.ijaz.33 > twitter: UmairTheScholar > yahoogroup: > scholars_learners-subscr...@yahoogroups.com > > >
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